Here are a few to get you started. 

I was wondering if any wholesale investors in the Edmonton area could help me get started?

This just might be my opinion but at this point even if you're out one months rent which definitely sucks it may just be easier to start showings.I don't know what the L/T laws are in your county/state but perhaps send a notice to the emergency contact with something to the effect of pay or quit with an option for a release out of the lease and be done with it. turn over this unit and get it out on the market again.

When you’re pressed for time or eager to start a project and need things to move faster, consider outsourcing tasks for efficiency.Overall, I think you should go back to the drawing board, build a specific and optimized list, and market to it consistently.

Initially, I was apprehensive about paying for utilities, but it has been easy to budget since the units are smaller.Overall, it's much less stressful and more hands-off when tenants manage their own utilities.

Since it sounds like just a handful of locations, I would experiment with some repair strategies.

Say you start a STR and use the loophole to write off 100k from W2 salary. 2 yrs later the rental goes underwater and you have to give it up at huge loss.  

Im have started my private/hard money lending business and looking to have money partners to grow my business since I have ran out of my private money.

I'd say go for it, everybody has to start somewhere.

Lol, could get interesting, 1-hand fighting the other.