When I spoke with the tenant originally he agreed to the payment plan, but missed the initial deadline. 

You want your deadline to move to be before the SEC deadline if at all possible, because you will end up having to take them to court if they are really professional tenants. 

The right price, quality work, able to work within a budget and the most important thing; I show up when I say I will and I can prioritize jobs with tight deadlines.

To give you all an update, we've presented to the seller our calculations on what the property should be worth based on cap rate calculations assuming rents are what they claim (which brings the purchase price way down), and have asked for an extension on the due diligence period, since they have so far failed to give us all the leases, expenses or the rent roll, despite the deadline we had in the contract.

Meanwhile buyers agent is making sure all deadlines are being met for paperwork, and vigilant about keeping everything moving forward to stay under contract.

I won't put a deadline on when I'd get to that point right now because the information just isn't there yet.Am I treating my rentals as a business by doing this, or a charity/hobby?

I think giving myself a deadline will help me in the long run as well. 

With about an hour before the deadline to reply to us, my partner and I received an email from a law office - he lawyered up.Now that we had someone we knew we could trust there, it was time to get rid of the family’s involvement - definitely Jekyll’s.

Short deadlines for apts? 

How YOU can help:We learned about the publishing of the rules very late in the process... and the deadline for comment is upon us.