She had barely moved anything out at all from when we first came to look at the house.By that point, it was too late to find anything else on such short notice.

I can barely handle “myself” and one other investor as clients!

Unit C and B are tenants I inherited when I purchased the property.

Or I can apply for the PSLF and pay the bare minimum for 10 years & invest the difference.

I could do twice that passively investing in other people's flips.As an active investment in So Cal, you need to be at a 25% return at a bare minimum.

I am willing to move and self-manage but I am struggling to answer this question.How do I pay back my investors and still turn this into a profitable business in a market that barely appreciates?

For $1.5 million, you could buy a three-unit deal in a marginal neighborhood that probably barely cash flows if its full all the time.  

I don't have the experience yet, but I expect tenants are likely to do bare minimum. 

When a tenant turns over you often lose 4-6 weeks of rent, plus the expense of prepping the place for a new tenant, plus possibly paying an agent for tenant placement.So, if you barely cover your mortgage with rent, you are negative cash-flow wise when you consider these other costs.

She had neck drop and couldn't work, but Section 8 kept reducing the amount of rent they would pay and this lady was barely scraping by.