We've been working well with them and see ourselves hiring them as a GC.We have 100k left to fundraise but plenty of investor pipeline to get us there.

Me and my wife spoke to an immigration lawyer yesterday, but the answer was pretty much "hire me first"Any guidance/advice would be greatly appreciated!

You hire them.

Are you acting as the GC or will you be hiring a GC?

(Ask me how I know this.)You'll be priced out of virtually any quality market as you'll need to put anywhere from 25-40% down if you'd like to cash flow in a deal you don't have to significantly rehab (or found off-market) with interest rates where they're at (and don't expect them to go down to 4% anytime this decade either--a 3-4% interest rate is historically low and investors in the 2010s were lucky and spoiled). 

Had I hired a professional, it would have been done in a month and the extra five months of rent income would have paid for the contractor, saving me six months of nights and weekends.

I have recently been applying to jobs that teach and train real estate agents to wholesale, looks like it could a good opportunity on account that they have the capital. Im curious to see if anyone here has had experi...

We did 'win' one at auction that I could not enter without my eyes watering & dry wretching, but the young couple I hired to gut it had no problem.

I represent a lot of buyers in Tampa, and some hire me for full service PM, limited service PM, and some self manage. 

If you wanted to, you could simply hire one of the many other PM's out there, rent the thing for $1,200+ and them sell it in 10-15 years for a healthy profit.