My wife is a 1st grade teacher, and I've worked for my families earth moving/construction company my whole life.

They have built and scaled a business and as you say they could have done that with anything.  

From what I've seen, for somebody to make money in this industry they either have to plan on scaling the business.

This enables you to scale in a way that driving can't. 

Then after I get some more general business experience and establish a track record of successful real estate investments I plan to jump into the self employment world and start scaling up. 

My plan is to start out by getting my real estate license, doing our first flip, and using that money to invest in our first BRRRR property in order to scale our business from there.

As long as ALL your tenant applicants are being graded on this SAME criteria then you are in compliance.

If you have a few you may not have a time issue, But if you want to scale you will eventually run out of time and if you have to wait for government money you could get squeezed on time.

You will need property management to scale especially since you and your spouse already have "regular" jobs.

Ok BP community got one for you...I’ve been wholesaling for about two years now and the scaling process has begun.