I'm actually looking at doing another sooner than later as my work has me moving north of where I am.

This is roughly: Phase 1 includes education on house hacking and small multifamily investing, creating a basic network, and saving any extra cash.Phase 2 is my initial searching and closes with a contract, estimates for renovations and completion and revaluation of the property.Phase 3 is the actual year of living at the property while saving cash flow up to then later pick up a second property.Phase 4 is freeing up the original multifamily for full renting, and securing a second property to repeat the process and gain capitalPhase 5 is securing a mid-size multifamily complex either with capital on selling one of the two first properties or with saved up equity. 

Then you can always refinance later.

If you paid full price for your rental and did 80% LTV, even in this bizarre market, I highly doubt you'll walk with much 10 months later. 

you will thank me later. 

Perfectly legal, but as you stated, going in with full ask to retrade the price later can get you a bad reputation in the market and to me, reputation is just about everything.

A year later, I sold the home for more than double and used that money to buy a home in the Bay Area.

Your clearly out of your depth and experience for how to best lease a unit, at minimum for completing the entire marketing for tenant placement and with that I think it's safe to assume the lease portion and the later property management as well.

A year later, she hunts us down at our local farmers market and asks if we still wanted the property!

Seriously, not sure what would happen if you take your time to move in as in, paint the place and make it nice and move in 30 days later?