It's a little too intense for me. 

We have now exited the crash pad model as it was too management intensive to maintain at a distance.

This will probably not work out well if your wife is not fully on board.

Eventually, it will turn and work out "in the end" but the opportunity cost to waiting is too high to warrant keeping it if you don't love the property.I'm not sure how helpful that is; I am bullish on the area and own 1 property in Temple.

(there are ways, but they're time intensive and/or require a different skill set. 

You do not want to force someone into staying in your rentals- it normally does not work out well.Andre, this is part of a learning curve and you probably did not want to have this much happen so soon. 

Can you work remotely or your job requires intense travelling.

One way to approach (often intense) negotiations and timelines is to consider the parties on the other side.

How you structure the deal will be dependent upon the two of you, but you may make a finders fee, or work out a partial ownership, or something else.

I'm not smart enough to work out the math of which option would be best, or how long it would take for the syndication option to overtake the DST option.