But, for me at the moment, it's building a good team around me to help advise on next steps from sourcing to financing and closing.

Memphis has a pretty affordable housing market and tends to offer solid rental yields, which might align well with your goals.

On a related note, and I am running it by my CPA as well, but was just curious if anybody had issues deducting interest paid on seller finance deal?

We are building whole communities for investors now as well so you may want to reconnect!

@Randy Giovanniello maybe look at joining a team vs individual so you get more experience in hours you’re free, or sign up for showing service like Showami where they pay you to show houses.

There would be a point where you would also take that money and try and also buy rentals to hold properties for appreciation as well. 

The best information on this topic is a book written 42 years ago “invest in debt” by Jimmy Napier  

your questions were all good, but that's all information you need to know before you even offer.and 2 visits probably won't be enough because you'll sell yourself on something you see and try to make it work.

It's all about knowing the right information and strategies. 

If you want to look for an investor focused brokerage or team in a brokerage I'd recommend looking for meetups in the local area for real estate investors or potentially other investor focused agents in the area, you can likely find both of these with bigger pockets (depending the location).