How to Use This Tool
Separate parallel cleaning and repair work from sequential drying, inspection and leasing buffers. Estimate a rental make-ready timeline from parallel work branches and the sequential drying, inspection and leasing steps that follow.
The decision this tool supports
Adding every task duration assumes nothing overlaps, while ignoring dependencies can promise a move-in before coatings dry or corrections clear inspection. This page keeps the decision bounded to estimated make-ready duration and the supporting outputs shown beside it. Make-Ready Timeline does not import an account, infer a market rate, or silently substitute an industry average.
Inputs and units
The Make-Ready Timeline calculation uses Cleaning branch duration, Repair branch duration, Paint or floor drying, Inspection and correction, Leasing handoff buffer. Keep all money values in one currency and all time, distance, mass, energy or volume entries in the unit printed beside the field. Mixing Make-Ready Timeline scopes can produce a plausible number with the wrong meaning.
- Cleaning branch duration is entered in days.
- Repair branch duration is entered in days.
- Paint or floor drying is entered in days.
- Inspection and correction is entered in days.
- Leasing handoff buffer is entered in days.
Formula and worked check
Timeline = max(cleaning branch, repair branch) + drying + inspection/correction + handoff buffer. Two cleaning days and four repair days run in parallel, followed by two drying days, one inspection day and one buffer day: eight days total. The Make-Ready Timeline default is an executable known-answer case, not a benchmark or recommendation. Change one input and verify that the direction of estimated make-ready duration still matches the stated relationship.
How to interpret the result
The result is a critical-path scenario; replace each branch with contractor commitments and add calendar constraints before advertising availability. The additional Make-Ready Timeline outputs expose the denominator, comparison, capacity or reverse value needed to audit the primary result instead of presenting one unexplained number.
Assumptions
- Cleaning and repairs can start together.
- Drying begins only after both initial branches finish.
- Inspection, correction allowance and handoff occur sequentially.
Save the Make-Ready Timeline input values and date with any material decision. A later Make-Ready Timeline rerun is reproducible only when the same assumptions and units are available.
Limitations and safety boundary
It excludes permit timing, weekends, material lead times, hidden damage, tenant law, contractor availability and inspection scheduling rules. Make-Ready Timeline is an estimate and cannot replace a contract, local code, licensed professional, calibrated measurement, lender statement or platform report where one governs the decision.
Source and privacy
The Make-Ready Timeline definition or rule was checked against U.S. Small Business Administration — Manage your finances on 2026-08-26. Recheck U.S. Small Business Administration — Manage your finances when a specification or policy behind Make-Ready Timeline can change. Make-Ready Timeline arithmetic runs in this browser tab; ecech does not receive the values through a calculation API.
Sources & assumptions
Tool Spec v2 · verified 2026-08-26. Platform rules and fees can change; the editable inputs remain authoritative for your account.
Official references
- U.S. Small Business Administration — Manage your finances (checked 2026-08-26)
Model assumptions
- Cleaning and repairs can start together.
- Drying begins only after both initial branches finish.
- Inspection, correction allowance and handoff occur sequentially.
- It excludes permit timing, weekends, material lead times, hidden damage, tenant law, contractor availability and inspection scheduling rules.
