Weekly payments are fine as long as they are in advance not in arrears.Give him deposit slips or a debit-deposit only card if your bank allows.

Seller would pay closing cost to keep the out of pocket expenses manageable for the buyer thus making the deal possible.Some of the closing costs are state transfer tax, prepaid mtg interest, prepaid taxes and home owners insurance, title insurance, home inspections....

He then got 4 or 5 of my same age school friends and on Sat and Sun during school and mid week in summer. .he took us to the neighborhood he wanted to canvas.. he paid us a penny a piece to put them out... so it coast him about 3 cents a piece.. response was.. ( pre internet of course.. it was a tear off with pre paid postage.. so he only paid for incoming postage not out going). 

Get a visa-debit card for it so any contractors and home depot can also be paid through it.

My first project took six month because the contractor I used was slow, incompetent, and in the end, walked away from the project with $10K of work & materials I pre-paid (stupidly) for and didn't receive.

The lender treats the prepaid amounts as a total of individual payments received, the value of receiving payments prior to a due date is only as valuable as the time value of money at, not that note rate, but the lender's cost of money and not the buyers cost.Use one note, one deed of trust, one title policy, one insurance assignment, one servicing fee, one tax reporting, one payoff request, one notice of late payment, one notice of demand, one foreclosure process, one deed in lieu of foreclosure or one right of redemption and offset amount, one matter of loan compliance 1/2 the attorney fees of two notes in any actions required, and much of this reduces costs of collection which is tagged to the borrower.Want to sell part of that master note?

I actually just did this recently and bought some cheap ($1000) houses, then had a locksmith open the doors and re-key the locks....I paid him using a debit card from my business checking account (credit cards are not allowed). 

Many will give you a debit/credit card with a Visa or Mastercard logo or checkbook that you can use to access the available funds for whatever purpose you would like.

So I prepaid 6 months rent, plus my deposit and first months rent. 

I have a service that rents are automatically debited from the tenants account, and credited to mine each month.