If you'd like to chat directly about some options moving forward (including how I hired my first direct employee as a PM) I'd be happy to do that.Don't delay in taking the action you think necessary to save your project.

OrDid you start your real estate journey not as an investor but as a full-time employee in a real estate related field - lending, contracting, working for a developer, etc?

These are your employees who are on call 24/7 so consider that you're getting below minimum wage for their services. 

It shall be an unlawful discriminatory housing practice for any person, or any agent or employee of such person:To refuse to consider as a valid source of income any public assistance, alimony, or child support, awarded by a court, when that source can be verified as to its amount, length of time received, regularity, or receipt because of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, familial status, or handicap;"https://www.ok.gov/OREC/documents/CompleteDiscrimI...It is illegal in Oklahoma to discriminate against an applicant because their income is from public assistance.  

They all have employees and offices and overhead and are not doing this alone.

However, the joke is on them, I am a BRRRR investor, have over 30 employees and do all of the work in house on my investments.  

He did as you thought, held it for a friend and then the employees dropped the ball and didn't follow up. 

Very few employees of any kind can say this.

I am a car dealer and one of my employees' hit hard financial times and was unable to continue making payments on their home.

PUSHBACKThis law unfairly targets small employers (>20 employees).