Before this business he would buy wrecked Yamaha R6 motorcycles and disassemble them in his garage, selling every single piece, part, nut and bolt that wasn't damaged, individually at swap meets and online. 

@Matthew R Crawford So this post grabbed my attention as i'm a beginner in the real estate game myself.

I probably look at 50 - 100 houses a week, it’s a numbers game.

Others want to have a family, which becomes their highest priority ... etc.If I were in your shoes, I would sit down with the wife and write down the goals with actual numbers and dates and run them by your friend or some other folks here...There are tons of strategies in real estate, some more lucrative than others, but require some level of expertise, which you can only build once you get in the game more seriously.Year 0: Skills: Basic RE Education.

Seller owns property free and clear and you guys sign a purchase agreement for 100KYou put down 10% which is 10K to the seller(skin in the game)Your hard money lender put in 90K, which is the rest of the money due to seller, to get to that 100K owed.Then Escrow closes and your seller has the 100K owed to him and then you pay the lender who put in 90K monthly interest only payments till you resell/refinance the property paying off the 90K owed to him.

Depending on the land and your game plan, you may or may not be able to make money at a 'flip'.

Then it became a "they must have did it, because I certainly didn't flush anything" game.  

My husband and I are moving to Nashville later this year and I am interested in getting my real estate license in Tennessee, via online courses if possible.

Others would be online leads, calling renters to see if they want to buy.

Outside of meeting with an "investor friendly" agent while in each city, what other in-person tasks should I try to accomplish to gain a better understanding of the potential upside to the rental markets.I have renovated and rented a multifamily property before so I'm not completely new to the game, but analyzing out of state farm areas is a relatively new path that I have yet to explore.