(Is the trick with that to keep following up via a drip email campaign or automated texts or something, thus building and maintaining a relationship without investing time until they’re ready?)

We want the mortgage low to maintain cashflow and want to limit the pain of moving to a new market, so we are targeting Tenant occupied properties in the 150000-200000 range.Is that a good strategy?

There are costs associated with becoming an agent and maintaining your license.

@Aaron Arnold I started with SFH and still maintain them.

We teach people how to treat us, do your due diligence and maintain constant contact with your PM...they will learn quickly and won't want those accountability phone calls.

Do you have someone to help you manage and maintain? 

Do you charge for monitoring and maintaining vacant units?

If done properly you can have enough income to maintain a pretty good lifestyle while you shop for your dream job. 

There are costs associated with getting and maintaining your license.

I don't know where you live but the transactional cost of maintaining a LLC is also a factor you need to consider.