How to manage out of stare rehab during the shutdown?

[Cuong Nguyen]

Hey everyone! 

My first post here. My wife and I have recently closed on a property in Portland Oregon. This is our fist out-of-state deal (we both live in California), so we are super excited. We are planning to fix up the property and rent it out. We have already found a property manager and have had contractor bids lined up.

Now I think it's important that we can check the construction progress, so our original plan was to move the whole family up to Portland for about a month to oversee it. We have two kids (one two years old and another two months old) with no help from families, so that seems like the best option for us. However, now that the virus outbreak is rapidly getting worse, we really don't want to risk getting the whole family outside. Just the thought of having to rent a hotel or putting my kids outside have already scared me 

I'd love to get some advice or feedback from you guys on what we should do in this situation? Ideally we'd love to stay at home and still being able to manage the rehab. But realistically we don't know how to do that.

A couple things we were considering:

**I heard about boots on the ground. But I'm curious how would you find anyone reliable enough to help during this time? Are there services that you can hire?

**We asked our property manager. He'd usually offer such kind of service, but right now he's extremely overwhelmed and has stopped taking on that responsibility.

Anything else we should try? We'll probably get our deed recorded with the county this Friday and hoping to get construction starting next Monday. 

Thanks!