Think of a mechanic that is telling you to buy Car Model A over Car Model B... they are the ones in a position to know that Car Model B breaks down all the time, based on what they see rolling (or being towed) into their shop. 

like buying a 1st position note, but you're buying it from the government? 

I did managed to get 1 mortgage company to offer me a loan, but they quoted me 6%+ on the loan.So an option i have been thinking to do is just place all 5 properties up for sale, because if i can sell them all i would walk away with around 285k in positive equity based on current market vales on all of them, then 1031 exchange into something local since im not longer in the military.

We don't plan on using the same business entity for our rental business.I asked them about portfolio lending and she got back to me with some responses that are positive but now I'm feeling kind of LOST because I'm still in the baby stages.

I have not moved forward with any legal action at this point.

Keep in mind that if your buyer is also going to be taking out another loan to cover all or some of his portion of the payment of the balance to you, the lending institution is going to want you to take a subordinate position to their first-lien note. 

A lot of positives to this...

I'm curious to know what kind of action you would take?

It offers tangible actionable steps to scale your business.

I'm posting this because hopefully it'll inspire someone that's on the fence to take action.