Unless its family that trusts you, nobody will lend you money without having cash, good credit and a source of income.

It sounds like you really need to break it down more for us to help investigate the source of your missing cashflow.

Maybe a different list source?

I have a funding source  that will  lend  as much money  as necessary  for my initial down payments.

I'm not quitting my day job (the earliest would be 8.5 years from now to claim my pension and retirement benefits) but we will look for our 3rd source of income and take the long approach to transitioning out of corporate world.Too me, this is a Marathon, not a SprintGood Luck!

Are there any private funding sources that focus more on the deal than personal credit?

I work in downtown Detroit and I'm looking to try probate leads a my first source.

Everyone has to be actively involved in the deal in someway, sourcing, marketing, managing, project managing, etc.

For business and personal reasons, my partners want to free up time and money as they bought a new business and wont to focus solely on that.  

I bolded the phrase which seems to fit our end of the business, "Any entity created solely for the purpose of securitizing loans secured by an interest in real estate, provide the entity does not service the loans" which would be exempt.