Get someone to teach you other than your friend. Cost more, but that's the price you pay, but also their availability is going to be when you need them. Build those hours!!! You need 250 for the commercial. While you're doing lessons, do instrument and commercial manuevers. On pleasure flights, make sure you hit 50nm trips. Do your long solo trip ASAP. Get it out of the way, so it's not an issue once you are ready. As far as the multi, you can get that portion during a weekend at some of these places, and in your situation I would think that to be a better idea than going to ATP since you own part of an airplane. Get both the comm and inst out of the way first though. As far as flying bank-checks at night, to be 135 PIC, you need 1200hrs, so guess what, you're going to have to build hours somewhere. Right now, some 135 operators are using SIC's in the small planes, just to let guys build hours towards the 1200, but that's not a given. Airlines are hiring people at 300TT and a comm/multi/inst. Crazy huh!?!? Scour the boards here, you'll find plenty of other info you'll need