The job is about 1 year, 3 months from start to finish. 

I haven't worked with him but I'm getting started doing private lending with Matt. 

Where can I go to borrow money to give the contractor in order to get the project started?

This may be a timing issue and not incompetence, be careful before you start rattling the sword.Lastly, I think the suggestion about encouraging the tenant to write a bad review about this PM is a terrible idea because you could get dragged into a business interference lawsuit for encouraging it.

We feel like this gives us a pretty good background to start, but by no means do we think we know everything we need to yet.The area around UCF has improved quite a bit in the last 10 years and home prices have risen considerably, but it seems like there are still some promising areas to find deals.

Start by looking at the location, market trends, and property condition.

What is your opinion or experience by starting a tenant with a month-to-month lease instead of a full year term?

Start by joining local real estate groups, studying the market, and learning more.

That is where I started with my VA loan, and they pointed me in the right direction.  

I am an ambitious retired network engineer who started that career after closing down my first business which was in the automobile industry، sooner later I developed an interest in investing in my property and other ones by using Airbnb. it was a really funny story to begin but you know that after one year I would be managing 33 luxury apartments distributed across one of the fastest growing communities in my country.