Figure out what you want to do and ask yourself is it feasible to do it at this point in time.

We did not open the letter until 3 days before the updates/corrections needed to be ready before the final inspection and they were not finished in time, so we failed.

For the best quality tenant you should be looking for someone to move in for June 1st at this point in time.

To live comfortably, I would prefer $2000 / month.At this point in time, I can obviously do this as a full-time job.

He made it in time but had to work OT the last week of construction.  

First, @Cal C. is right, using the term flip to even describe your activity and stating from the outset that your intent is to resell at a specific point in time automatically opens the door for a field agent in an audit to determine that your intent was resell and any 1031 denied and ordinary income rate applied.  

Then we have two traditional loans in process- but neither will close in time.

@Aaron Moore You can always stop an eviction process if you need to, but you can't go back in time and start it.Odds on you will end up evicting them based on the situation you've described.

If I can’t find another deal in time I have friends to stay with so I am not concerned about not having a place to stay.

Things get slowed down, they (Govt workers) are generally not interested in time deadlines, only checking boxes off.