Leases can be a hassle when selling the home but if it’s owned, most buyers will probably see it as a benefit to have lower operating costs through a reduced or eliminated electric bill.

I ran some calculations and we could get by for the next few years with my husband reducing his income down to $50k a year (about half what he's making now).

Or did you just find a way to reduce your liability costs.

You could submeter utilities and have tenants pay their own thus reducing that expense, and unless the landscaping is really nice, you could likely make the tenants responsible for that as well.As to your reasons1.

Ask him what scope of work he could have done for whatever reduced fee you would have needed to offer what it sold for.

I want to structure it in such a way that we are paid back so that the loan balance can be reduced quickly.

I'm an agent in a high cost of living area and the first couple "hurdles" a house hack financial analysis needs to clear are "will the buyer reduce their housing cost" and "will the buyers housing cost be lower than market rent"?

Not being in property management for their primary revenue stream reduces the chances for inflated fees and trip charges, 3.

Because fewer units reduce your economics of scale and will never allow the property to produce enough income to warrant the work involved. 

If this is an “as is” sale and already discounted some, then certain things may not be reasonable to reduce the price for.