If you do plan on using your VA loan, you'll need to close within 60 days of your arrival date as well.Regarding your VA eligibility, I highly recommend contacting a lender to discuss what your options are. 

., and have it shipped to a storage facility awaiting my arrival.  

Call the police non emergency line and they will take care of it.I've called this number before for a tenant/squater related issue before and three police officers arrived in about 30 minutes.The difference is that this is not an emergency therefore you don't dial 911.

I am awaiting my repairman to arrive and diagnose.These are decent tenants, paying market rent.

I would not accept post-dated checks, but I would instruct her to mail the checks to me early enough that they arrive by the due date.

Mboro is hotter than the sun right now.

Costs are higher than ever, there is a supply chain issue that makes everything take way longer to arrive, and there is a monumental labor shortage in all fields.

So, we basically said $650 for each, arriving at $1,300 rent. 

Also, how did you arrive at (only) 5% Vacancy Allowance?  

Hopefully the tenants will be long gone by the time the doors and windows arrive, and if you end up in front of a judge you can show them the receipts.