I tell my clients all the time that the quality of your property will directly determine the quality of your tenants.This is a very important rental property investing fundamental most new investors always forget or ignore simply because they are just too desperate for  "Cash-Flow".

Will they be doing other types of work like getting through the financing, becoming the guarantor, finding the deals, crunching the numbers, doing the accounting, or are they just simply doing less work?

For consulting with a CPA.As mentioned above you can simply take monthly distributions, but what is most important is how you are set up. 

It simply depends on your time frame, when you want to actually begin renting the property out short term, and what the loan terms are.

If you discover one that sounds potentially relevant, and you have not explored it - see if you can still get hold of your accountant before 12/31 and ask them.

Without rent control i either raise their rent far above market rents so they give me notice (my preferred method) or i simply do not renew their lease.

Gator lending is simply "transaction funding" and doing "2nd mortgages".

Time allows for adjustments, scaling, and reinvestment in ways that short-term projects simply can’t achieve. 

Usually when a landlord cannot find qualified tenants but are getting a fair amount of inquiries there's an underlying real estate problem and the qualified tenants simply do not want to live in that location.

The indoor malls that simply offered shopping and a food court are the ones dying off.I've seen some malls be demolished and replaced with high-density single family developments.