He's taking you for a ride.

That will start the clock ticking IN CASE the tenant decides to let it ride a little longer on your dime.  

The seminar is an emotional ride and unless you’re ready BEFORE you leave home to purchase a course, then please don’t buy the course that you aren’t committed to.To be clear, My husband and I bought a course, but it was very misleading.

I need to be approaching this in a less intense and almost... panicked fashion.  

There are programs that don't require a seasonal period but of course they get you in another fashion.

Sounds like we’ll be doing it the old fashioned way then.

There are a lot of PMs who like the old-fashioned way of doing things and don't want to switch from a company to self managing with using online tools.

Look out also for where the national big-box retailers are going such as Costco, Target, Wal-Mart and Home Depot these often go hand in hand with increased population.Old-fashioned word of mouth is one of the best ways to assess the growth of a neighborhood.

I would let it ride for 4 months.

I used to compare my returns in real estate to what I would have earned if I had just thrown the money in an index fund and let it ride over the same time period, and it felt great to see that I had beat the stock market by a nice margin.