This is fairly standard in the Westchester area given most homes are 100+ years old and the building code / inspectors didn't really come to power until the 70s or 80s.Likely your real estate agent will note the issues. 

We rent single family homes, so we have a conversation about yard maintenance, snow removal etc - have you don't this before, do you have the tools etcI also bring up house cleaning questions, by telling them we had a tenant who did not own a vacuum cleaner, did not know how to run a dishwasher, had a mess in the basement etc - and then see how they respond.That is a non-offensive way to talk about house cleaning and you'd be surprised how different the responses are.

Using the Whole Life Policy (or Indexed Universal Life) is very powerful.

Now however, due to all prices going up and the decreasing in purchase power of the populous, the market has soften and slowed down a bit. 

Find out what a typical nightly rate is for your area (not what air bnb charges, the actual nightly rate the owner will receive not including the cleaning fee).

Using a whole life policy to secure a line of credit can be a powerful tool, especially since you’re leveraging a guaranteed asset.

There is no cash flow involved with a personal residence not being used for business purposes.Avoiding leverage on RE involving cash flow negates the power of using OPM, other people s money.

If it were me, I would get them out now so you can clean/renovate during the winter and get it on the market in early Spring.

Buyers have significantly more negotiating power.

The numbers will be lower, but yes you won't be waiting to see bookings come through and you won't have to clean rooms (takes us about 10 minutes) between stays.