Although this is a sellers market for the owner-occupier space with crazy offers being made above asking price by people who buy on emotion rather than numbers, landlord burnout is at an all-time high due to government imposing its will and saying investors need to pay for the "won't work for money and won't pay for housing" lifestyle. 

You need to perform a financial and lifestyle/emotional analysis.

I'm thinking this doubling the rents is emotions winning ove logic. 

I'm not going to disagree with any of the above, but your wife seems to be coming at this from the emotional side of things not the intellectual/learning side. 

Much of commercial will be based on numbers vs emotions....and maybe flip that for residential.KW has both residential and commercial agents.....so that's one of the first places I would look. 

I'm working on paying off my primary just for peace of mind (I know, I know it doesn't make financial sense - it's an emotional decision because it's my home)...but I'll probably never pay off any of my 127 rentals. 

The rabbit is just going to turn into an Emotional Support Animal if you push too hard.

@Dalton Chmelik No offence but it sounds like your wife is letting emotion control the investment journey.

I admit part of wanting to keep the home is emotional, but I also believe that it would be a good investment property and maybe the transition will be easier since I do own it already?

I typically don't have subsequent move-ins scheduled very tightly after move-outs, so when this happens it's more of an emotional hassle than anything else (because the tenant wants to then argue that I'm a monster for charging them rent because life happens . . . c'est la vie).If these one and two day delays significantly derail your process you might consider instituting some kind of "drip reminders" of the checkout process . . . starting 2 weeks before the lease-end date and dripping as often as you see needed to get the tenants out on time.