One thing that we had talked about is finding a note buyer during escrow who would be willing to write a letter of commitment to purchase the note at a later date, preferably after some seasoning so as to avoid SAFE laws.

You will have plenty of time to set up the LLC between the date you sign the contract and the closing date.

Those date pretty far back in human history.

I tell them I will notify the tenant I select on a certain date.

I've got a few.This helped me just starting out but moving the mortgage payment date as late as possible, mine are on the 15th.

And they are written and updated by the same attorney that writes most of the WI landlord tenant legislation, so always up to date.

Make sure you have the date when the damage originally occurred. 

For the last year I have consolidated date, gotten rid of credit cards, and gotten on top of bills.

Or how should I go about the closing date on the first contract? 

They notified me before the 2nd months rent was due that they would be short, but they asked if the could pay half, set a date to pay the other half and included the late fees.