Given that they put in the necessary work/time to learn this game!

I don't want to get a job that gets me out of the game, I started playing around with marketing and I'm doing lead gen, data scrape, and cold calling for investors and small businesses.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the best use of this money to step up my real estate game and buy more properties?

I'm brand new to real estate, because I was always told how difficult it is to buy a house, let alone invest in a property, but now I have learned that is all simply not true (I do know it is not easy, per se, but it is attainable with some hard work and diligence!)

So, it may seem like there would be conflicts, but in reality, because Buyers have their own individual needs that convey into any offer, it really doesn't present an issue with the same Realtor presenting their offers on the same property.Speaking briefly to your comment about a listing agent who would "cause a bidding war" between Buyers, this CAN be somewhat true. 

My opinion is unless you desire to speculate on the Jersey City Housing market, and find that the ~400 loss per month is worth it to have skin in the game, then I would sell.Based on the wording of your post is sounds like you prefer stable cash-flow properties to speculating on the market, but both are fair strategies when properly applied

Most people are going to want you to have some skin in the game.

It was based on true asset protection both from inside the entity and from outside the entity.

Is this true or are there some hard money lenders that could be used for renting and generating cash flow?

My previous 3 BRRRR's were all done conventional and technically I have no skin in that game.