Lots of us are happy to offer suggestions but I think we need to understand your situation better.All the best!

The episodes I struggle on there are the interviews that seem to be either someone the host wants on, or that they were on their show and it’s a reciprocal situation to build an audience.

I'm in the same situation with con artist tenants.   

When I was in your exact situation looking for help, they were the only ones that provided solid answers and walked my wife and I through the full transaction.

Bit of a crossroads here, I'm hoping someone with a similar situation could chime in.  

The more rentals you have the more risk there is to having a bad situation crop up.

They will do magic for your financial situation.  

Multiple offers situations are the rare exception, not the norm.

I don't know your living situation but if your paying x,xxx for rent or a mortgage and instead by living in one side and renting out the other you will be paying y,yyy instead and y is less then x that's great, especially if you can rent out your primary residence and make income there too. 

The lender did everything wrong in this situation and now are paying for it.Now they are trying to sell the loan at a slight discount (oh did I say its a 0% interest loan and they jacked up the UPB of the loan instead of adding interest) - again another rookie mistake.