I signed a contract with buyer that stated closing date was Sep 14 or 30 days after tenants vacated WHICHEVER CAME FIRST.

Also, you'll find out that there are numerous ways to put together deals even if you don't have a lot of money.The key to being and staying successful in this business (as in most businesses today), is to get educated and keep your knowledge up to date as the market changes.

The lease renewal offers include the notice of rent increase (0, 3, 5% etc...depends on the market) and the date the month to month rate begins (typically a much higher rate than current rent). 

Listing agent should be able to provide you an up to date rent roll.

So you have no clear way to predict your future net worth and estimate an approximated point of financial independence.For each property I’ve been using a spreadsheet to calculate future value minus taxes and commissions to provide an estimated net for a certain sale date, then manually add the lump sum cash injection as an “income event” in Personal Capital, but you can’t associate any property related items together.

Cold calling is a bit dated IMO, go with SMS and get some data driven tools to increase your efficiency my dude 

For a perspective on dates, he signed his new lease on the 27th of last month which didn’t end util the 30th but she has yet to sign.

With the speed of our new contractor I believe we can complete the renovation under a month, get a property rented and then refinance under 4 months.

Something we had to overcome is the speed at which you can do things.

Homes can date back to the 80's and can be had at very low prices when in need of rehabbing (decent spread as a percentage of the ARV).