I've tried talking with some of the agents suggested by the auto-tool BP provides for "find agents in your area", (only 5 were suggested!

Nice work doing what you can to provide housing!!

I was constantly having to prompt the company to provide me with updates on their payments.

I'm extremely nervous about starting in real estate but I want to provide more for my family and buy more freedom for myself and think this is the vehicle to do it with.

How can I find investors that may be interested in this opportunity?

At that point, if your tenant is not willing to renew,  you simply advise the tenant that you will not be renewing their lease, and provide them a move-out date by which they must vacate the property.  

It's super hard to teach a noobie how to cold call or better said, you need to go through a lot of them to find one that can handle it.

This is a basement apartment, I not only advise to run a dehumidifier but I stress to her the importance of doing so in the summer months, and provide her with a brand new, 400$ dehumidifier when she moved in.

Maybe the freedom or ability to reinvest that it provides you?

Once you move out and its investment property, then hte ltv you can get the loan for is less and the rate is higher than if it was your primary.Once you move out, then you won't be able to get a heloc on the investment property unless you're lucky and find some local lender still doing it.