.: Most Hard money likely will not be interested due to owner occupancy (OO).  

The truth is if your investors have no involvement in the operations, If they just put in money and expect to get a profit, you have created a de facto syndication.2) I see a ton of people who just raise money for the syndication. 

It was an easy way to scale up with no money out of pocket.

I mean to me this is nothing money. 

Do not spend any more money on wholesale courses.

We are so lost as to what to do with the money.

Quote from @Cynthia Lee: Accepting even $1 could be seen as evidence of a payment plan, and the entire eviction process could be derailed.Once you start the eviction process, to not accept any payment unless it is a full payment in certified funds (cash, money order, cashiers check).

I would try not to tie up any of the principal in down payments.Personally, I had a family member do this same thing, but they used an investment portfolio as the collateral instead of real estate.If you play your cards right, this might be the only short-term money you ever need.Please let us know what you end up doing.

What you have is money.

Hard money How did you add value to the deal?