Should I even wait, or should I just go ahead and list it and tell potential tenants that the property won't be available until mid May?

So go ahead and get established, but start networking and continue learning. 

You should have your servicer lined up ahead of tim, instead of scrambling for one at the last minute.

If I had used it to buy only 1 source of rental income, "straight cash homie", I would have never been able to scale and take advantage of the opportunities I had at that moment.

You can also go straight to a construction company that has an in house architect.  

@Jose L TorresI believe these are hard times ahead very possibly the next 3-6 months as covid19 is very unlikely to go away quickly and the US was extremely ill prepared for it, now scrambling over the last 4 weeks to get things in place for this in hospitals around the country.

I got one seller to agree to 20 years, straight amortization. 

My pay plan is very straight forward.

Here's to looking ahead to May!

He went to the extent to make me to feel bad everyday by saying I waver by financial contingency and I will lose by earnest money if I don't go ahead.