You will still get multiple offers on your house from agents willing to take 1.5% but you will be missing out on many more offers from agents with well qualified cash clients from all over the US who won’t be as inclined to sell your home for you if you don’t compensate them fairly.

(Note that I'm not really looking for the answer to "find investors interested in a 15 year hold" since we plan to hold the property in perpetuity and we eventually would prefer to not have outside investors in the deal, with proper compensation to them on an exit of course).Thanks!

Rental numbers often don't compensate for fees that high.

Now, of course we should have helped all the people victim from Covid for no fault of their own.

Homeowners were paid to move out and for houses that had renters both the owners and the renters were compensated to move (the homes were eventually torn down). 

They compensate for this with terms that aren't as nice as they would be if in your personal name.

How do I compensate my partner, would he get a split of the monthly cash flow?

Bottom line is before quitting your W2, total up ALL compensation.

Also, you can be the victim of blackmail as I know one elderly woman collecting rent in cash, tenant found out she's not reporting it, and threatened to report her unless he gets a year of free rent. 

And let’s face it, agents are compensated on a commission basis so don’t go wasting their time and gas — just turn on the HGTV channel or something instead.Good luck