I've invested around $1.6M of my own money with capital partners interested in Real Estate matching $ for $. 

My husband is also very allergic to cats and will cost us a lot of money to deep clean the apartment once he moves out which is what we explained.

I am sure some of that is analysis paralysis but when it's your first, if I lose money on it, will set me back quite a bit on my planned timeline.

You can make money doing this, but the demand has to be there.

Are there services that you could shop around for to save money?

Anyone can live anywhere they want if they have the money, and sometimes houses are bought and then rented out without much background checking on the people moving in.

Would love to get seasoned investors' advice on how they would solve this investment/tax challenge: I am about to transfer 300k from a retirement vehicle so that I can use the money to retire early.

So, where can she move her money after selling in order to avoid capital gains tax?

Said he is very interested in lending if it makes us both some money!

It “sounds” like you want to lend someone money for an earnest money deposit to make an offer on a property?