My initial plan was to drive around neighborhoods and keep an eye out for properties that look to be distressed but I would assume there’s a more efficient way than that?

Is my financial freedom driving my children into the arms of the Devil?" 

Just stick within a 15 minute drive of either Parkway in Pigeon Forge, or downtown Gatlinburg.  

Also, along with podcasts, listen to as many audiobooks as you can while you drive, work, exercise, etc so you can start to figure out what niche you'll want to focus on.

My in-laws live in Pflugerville and every time we drive down there, all I see is growth. 

Drive around at night.

After listening to some podcasts, I learned that what I'm doing is basically called Driving for Dollars.

I first wanted a vacation home in Orlando to also use whenever i go visit and it being a huge touristic area i felt like it was a good idea; but I feel like something i am able to drive to as my first time is ideal. 

I have just started my Real Estate Investing journey marketing now for the past month or so driving for dollars.

Vacancy and management will be the same portion of income no matter the amount of rent or FMV.Where you can drive down the expenses is as you get into larger (more units) properties, efficiencies of scale start to kick in.