Hope this helps!

I know the decision shouldn't be made of tax benefit alone but starting to think other areas may help me accomplish both more efficiently.

Just recently I undertook to do some significant painting at two of the buildings and my wife offered to help me out.

This reduces your housing payment and helps you build equity. 

He can spend the next few years-ish getting a finance degree through an online school while working part time, but he just got offered a full time position helping with sales for a local wholesale real estate company. 

Would love to connect and see how we can help each other.

It would help if you could be a little more specific about what you want to learn.1.

My husband is on site all day every day as the GC and that helps.

If you don't and you want a suggestion or two, i can help you out. 

Of course, there's a lot more to it than I put in this paragraph, but I hope it helps with general parameters.