You have almost no debt. Or

If they refuse to pay, you file for another hearing and take them to a debtors hearing, re-explain your case, and file more paperwork to garnish wages and force them to pay.

will income from the  owner occupied property that you are vacating and renting out be counted on front end debt or back end debt?

I think of the question as "do I cash out to get out of debt?" or

Could be collections (debtor or debtee), builder defect, slip n fall, repair liabity, board malfeasance or, knowing some homeowners, too much dog poop.  

But you live in America and there is no debtors prison...and aren't ca mortgages non-recourse?

I have read that it's important that your LLC be set up in a state that charging orders are the only remedy to be used by creditors to get at a member/debtor’s LLC ownership interest and they not permit an LLC owner’s personal creditors to foreclose on the owner’s LLC ownership interest or get a court to order the LLC dissolved and its assets sold.

-----------------------------Contemplating putting the $22k of savings into paying down our debt OR trying our hand in a property?

(I can still get title insurance with the two judgments as exceptions on the policy.)What can the debtors do after I buy the house?

The difference between the purchase price and the equity reinvested would either be new debt or new cash out of your pocket.