The really good GCs are all busy doing work, but you need someone who can start right away to avoid paying unnecessary holding costs, so that leads to people who are available but maybe not the best. 

The most education you will receive is when you do your first deal...surround yourself with investors and agents that are investors themselves to help guide you and prevent you from making any major mistakes and you will be fine....there will always be several things that you learn from on your first deal!

How do you maintain engagement and interest from your list over time, preventing it from going stale?

Yes having a mentor should prevent some growing pains, but those are the best teachers.

I have seen a bunch of great wholesaling contracts that are out there for free (Jerry Norton, Jamil Damji, etc) that I would like to use, but I am not sure if my license will prevent me from doing so.

We also learned what was necessary to tap rental assistance and homeless prevention funds and social services,  on our tenant's behalf.

@Benjamin MannIf this is a general question, there isn't anything preventing you to refinance turnkey properties, provided the property value appreciates enough to allow it.

and just make sure to get a channel manager software that way it will sync all the calendars for all the listings together to prevent double bookings (a hosts worst fear)

I would also argue that there are plenty of landlords out there that have rentals which are currently below market rental price.I assume that this part of the tax code was created to prevent those with multiple homes from letting relatives live in one for almost free, while potentially hiding that rental income and not having it registered as a business and pocketing the money.  

Anyway to prevent this happen?