In all honesty, that may be the best advice I get - LOL. 

I always want to be completely honest. I

In all honesty, if you want to produce there is no way to pull it off on a part time basis.

I believe that total honesty (or as close to it as possible) will provide the best out come in the long run.

To be honest .... I

honesty, great time management, compassion

Either way, you should be able to tell way before 30 days are up.And then there's honesty and transparency. 

Any decent contractor will understand, appreciate the honesty, and figure it out.There are many ways to work around this:- you order and buy all materials-you have them put together a cart of materials at HD or wherever and you can then go and pay, they can pick up materials and get to work-you can make sure you break the quote out into phases (make sure each phase is roughly 1 week) and pay them after each week once you reviewed the completed week... and on.. and on. 

To be honest I doubt a bank would let me borrow that much money or they would want more money down.  

I think we were thinking the same thing but I wanted to lay this out in case we arent. and to be honest I might leave all the equity in with the intention of 1031 5-7 years later into a multifamily LTR.