I liken this example to a football team: You CAN be very successful by being just a "running team", or an "aerial team" or even a "defense first" team. 

They scrolled onto other pages or I would personally thank them for their defense of people like me.  

This avoids the time and expense of filing and complying with the save harbor Regulation D filings, although by relying on the general exemption for private offering rather than a Reg D filing you do give up your statutory defenses in a case where you are sued by your investors, for example should something go wrong and your investors lose money and decide to sue you.

I know my tenant is trying to delay the eviction and they hired a firm called Eviction Defense Network, but I'm not sure what is the best course of action for me to take because the $1400 on top of the eviction cost is pretty expensive.  

I have brought up several VERY valid, data driven counter point's, comment's and questions and each time you respond with some defensive, uber-evasive BS to run-away from the fact's.     

And, doing it with an engineering-based study (IRS' preferred methodology) with audit defense included, is going to be even more important.

Eviction for anything other than non-payment of rent is much more complicated and leaves room for all kinds of "defenses" and wide room for the Court's descretion!

Many borrowers who think they have defenses against a foreclosure will wait for the ejectment lawsuit, and then counterclaim.

With $1M cash in hand that you don't need, I'd focus on defense vs offense.Index fund and chill

This usually weeds out the uninformed want a be investor not realizing that a good GC is their best line of defense from the start.