They allowed the tenants to breach their contract on multiple occasions.

My wife and I are very interested in finding hard money lenders and investment real estate agents that can help us flip multiple homes over the next year. 

@John Prorok, is it this: https://sharedestates.fund/To your initial question: no response via multiple emails and automated voicemail is certainly not a good sign, but also not guaranteed a Ponzi scheme.

Over the past 4 months I sent out about 3,000 letters to a semi-targeted list (2% reponse rate), made 1,000 cold calls (25% response rate), had multiple investor friendly realtors looking for oportunities, and of course checked zillow/realtor daily.

Typically I would run a stress test to assure what my max purchasing/borrowing power would be because there are multiple factors that could influence your borrowing power such as house market prices, rates, income, liabilities.

Even still that much cash tied up in one property is losing you opportunities on multiple other real estate investment deals.

If you can only get into one, a fund isn't a bad way to go because you get into multiple properties at once. 

I'll for sure need an architect and lawyer amongst other players.

Last week starting Tuesday, I sent her multiple emails and left her multiple voicemails to try to figure out the logistics of getting our properties under their management and rent ready once we closed. 

We don't do any tenant placement fees, as they won't make sense with multiple new tenants each year.