As your rapport grows with the lender, their terms should become more flexible, increasing the efficiency of the financing and reducing the stress that this industry is known to cause!

It is flexible in setting up recurring automatic payments, or one-time payments, and you can specify who pays the $3 fee, you or the tenant.

I am flexible for time as long as we keep the driving during rush hours to a minimum

Canadian residential mortgage terms are typically 3-5yrs (5 being most common) and ideally you would want the exercise of the option to coincide with the end of the mortgage term (if you are financing the property ... if you are buying it outright, then you have a little more flexibility).Most of the folks who apply to your for your "Rent-to-Own" will have no (new immigrant, young person) or poor (bankruptcy, divorce, stupid) credit ... otherwise they would go to the bank and get a mortgage.  

I'd prefer 3 hours if commercial but there's much more flexibility in the commercial realm.

I took a job working from home so I can have a flexible schedule to handle the marketing calls and leave when I need to. 

Unless you have some auto-triggers in your lease with regard to increases in rent or utility coverage (if paid for by the Owner) then a 2yr lease may not be a wise decision.You also want to stagger your leases so that both are not coming up for renewal at the same time (I like a min 3mth stagger).1yr lease gives you flexibility to rid nuisance tenants, slow payers, increase rents, etc. 

I want the flexibility, the rewards, the challenges, and the comfortable lifestyle that a successful venture in REI can provide.  

@Kendrick Hudson Podio is one of the best and most flexible.

They seemed flexible and filled with people willing to teach, which is critical to newer agents and not something you come across often.