But occasionally we have issues and tenants need to be asked to leave or just decide to disappear in the middle of winter and it sucks.The worst part is I find the quality of tenant interested or willing to move this time of year isn't the greatest either - often times there is a reason they have to move right now since most landlords don't like ending leases this time of year.Either lower your rent or just hang in there.

Or set prices manually occasionally?

Occasionally if they have other assets maybe she can keep the equity of the house and he gets to keep his full 401k or something like that.   

Because who would want 10s of thousands when you can get hundreds from an occasional guest?

I’d say focus on getting new job and tending to your new family.

Working horrible job, living horrible, no golden streets of opportunity found.

They are there on time reliably, do a good job managing inventory/off site laundry, and generally do a good job cleaning overall.

If you can, visit the property occasionally to check on things.

Can they be more passive than having a 9-5 job?

mibextid=wwXIfrThere are occasionally some REI meetups in Anchorage as well held by the team of Vested North AK (Jamie Rose, Nick Bruckner, Tyler Cobb).