How can we love faster preparing our rental?

[Jessica Long]

Hello all!

My husband and I are preparing our first rental (it was our first home, was a fixer upper when bought and we have lots of renovating to do, most of which is necessary). My question is, how do we move faster with the renovation? Is it normal to spend months doing a project like this. 

We’ve already cut the fat including thing that are “wants” and not needs and we still have a lot of things that must happen before we can list it including some structural projects and sump pump issues etc…

I’m working two jobs and caring for 3 kids and husband is working 10-12 hour days so obviously time is limited. We have delegated many projects that we could have done ourselves but what other tips do you have (please don’t say work harder lol-though work smarter might be good ;). We’ve now got tow mortgages so wanna get this thing filled asap. Thank you for all tips to speed up thr process!

Do you all hire a project manager or just pour every second in or? We’re down for the hard work but need to move on this. This is a single family, B class home. Thank you for some insight.