If you are trying to buy larger multifamily maybe investing in a much larger project from a local syndicator might be the answer. 

Our big objective is finding an investor or group of investors who can purchase and renovate a building for our school.How would I go about finding an investor or investors for this project?  

And upon completion of the project I can get the loan refinanced to a traditional mortgage?

Investors that have a good deal, say maybe the total costs of the project is 50% of the ARV, seem to think that's enough for a lender because if anything goes wrong, they can just take over the property and "make more money" that way. 

This is one way to manage this large project, and it's a particularly useful tool for California-based investors.

We have access to a project manager and a team of VAs who do general admin tasks, transaction coordination, and marketing.

The city is still continuing to develop, since they've only completed about 50% of the approved construction projects.

Our current goal/focus, however, is getting our first project with our own capital off the ground.

I mentor someone I found on Biggerpockets for free because they had project management experience that was helpful to me in my business! 

I don't want to talk about massive cities that were once prominent in there respective states such as Detroit or St.