Just my opinion, but unless your husband has some expansion plans up his sleeve, I'm not seeing that you have a need for a "subcompact" tractor. That's a real tractor reduced in size so it's almost as small as a lawn or garden tractor, but it still has many key features of a larger tractor: diesel engine, power take-off, 3 point hitch, 4 wheel drive, hydraulics, etc. They are very handy and considerably more rugged than something mostly designed for mowing the lawn, but they should be since they cost almost as much as a new car, as already mentioned. That would probably be overkill for your 1 acre property, although plenty of people with just an acre or so buy them and use them extensively.