They are a sometimes cryptic way for the court's bench officer (judge, commissioner or the probate attorney reporting to the judge) to notate status and what items must be cleared during the process, what transpired at a hearing and the results of a given petition heard or to be heard. 

There are a lot of responsible pots heads out there. 

I don't like having to many hands in my pot and the cash is there to invest. what do you think is best?

Read a lot of books, and expand your knowledge pot.

I did have one renter that lost part of the coffee pot.

It just adds another set of hands in the pot, working with buyers who have their own funding (big dogs) eliminates an added cost to rehabbing (hard money) and allows them to pay more for the deal.

This pot of money is called Cap Ex.  

It is not for lack of trying: we have looked at many "potential" candidates, even tried to underwrite a handful, but vendors think they are sitting on pots of gold and there is too much loose money about these days driving the prices into the realm of silly.It is much better to have a healthy sum in your bank account than a bad deal ... there will always be another candidate property and prices will eventually re-align themselves with fiscal reality.

If you don't have private/hard money lined up or a pot of gold on the side you may have just quit the one thing that could allow you to continue investing!

I self finance my rehabs (well, actually, I more or less self-finance everything, but nevertheless); it is a lot less tempting to go overboard when you are borrowing money from yourself than it is when you are given a big pot of borrowed money from someone else, in my experience.