And also you sit down with your lender in person etc..

There is a saying in business, "If you're sitting at the poker table for more than 15 minutes and you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy."

The folks sitting there watching this guy drive a truck through fake rush hour traffic (oh no, this wasn't an "action" game, it was a "simulation," very realistic) for hours on end?

Your overhead and cost of capital are something to consider as part of your plan. remember if you get an investor to invest $250k but it takes you 3 months to deploy that  capital that is $5625 in interest you owe them, and say you can only invest $200k of it you are gonna have money always sitting on the sidelines.

I am now out 50k and have a few hundred grand sitting in escrow.7. not willing to just walk from 50k if there was not this 50k I would have just moved on.8.

They look like they are sitting on wooden piers and not on a slab or perimeter foundation.As far as lenders are concerned, that could impact the financing.

Quote from @Alan David: i HAVENT MENTIONED THEIR PRACTICE OF WITHHOLDING ANY FUTURE EARNINGSON THE INVESTMENTS ONCE YOU MAKE A DISTRIBUTION REQUEST, IN MY CASE THAT IS TWO YEARS( SO FAR) WITH THE FUNDS JUST SITTING IN MY ACCOUNT DOING NOTHING.i IMAGINE IF THEIR FUND HAS A LOSS i WOULD BE  SUBJECT TO THAT TOO.  

I realize that's a lot of equity to be sitting there so my question is what would be best move to try to increase income now.   

You should not be a sitting target.

We cant make smaller homes work in most markets and mostly build 1990 sqft homes.I DO see smaller homes selling significantly faster and larger homes sitting longer.