(if the tenant decides they want to buy the property a couple months later and I abide by the terms and sell them the property)Now here is where it gets a little sticky.

It's the actions which lead up to the assignable contract and your overall intent where gets sticky.

Rents have been sticky even while prices doubled....

@Rob Rice, I'm sure it varies from state to state, but in some states, you can become an assistant to an agent. 

Should we make this a sticky or place this somewhere so people can see it.

Consider looking into Milwaukee, it's not too far and the cap rates seem to be very high.The furthest I go is Rice Lake.

Beans and rice style if you had to?

We once had a tenant in an SFR rowhouse who kept 30 sacks of rice on the kitchen floor, plus cereal in the original cardboard boxes in the bottom cabinets, then complained of mice. 

We're also not sure our income would qualify for a conventional refinance at the high price point, and that we'll have negative cash flow (and potentially no tenants).Any advice on how to get out of this sticky situation?

To build a buyers list, go to the top of the BP Wholesaling forum and read the sticky topics there; one has an extensive set of links to a variety of methods.