Now, when you can pay an online service $30 or so for the same credit/background screening, e-mail applications to interested parties and schedule actual showings on specific days that fit your schedule, free advertising on postlets and other sites, screening tenants is no longer worth the fees he is being asked to pay, and he should rightly be looking for alternatives.   

Does anyone have a schedule?

I am preparing to schedule meetings with both a CPA and real estate attorney who also specializes in commercial and estate law.

It goes by how the rent is paid, and that would be monthly unless you have them pay a different schedule.

You should put a tight schedule on them putting the financing commitment in place, and have a non-refundable deposit if they stretch that out too long, but you should not care what they are doing with it. 

I'm in the process of closing on a property in Abington but have been fighting tooth and nail in Mt Airy, as the good ones go quick.

For the time being, he’ll just have his name on the loan and we can write up a partnership agreement.Please correct me if I’m wrong about the following: For tax purposes, I’m assuming that I’ll be able to write off 1/5th of the mortgage interest and r/e taxes on my schedule A.

Multiple showings already scheduled. 

After that you have to schedule with the Sherriff to force eviction, usually takes a week or so to get on their schedule. 

Given the on/off schedule they can find time to build their personal brand before needing to rely on it all the time.