I looked at the paper work and its  a 4 UNIT  property.

Your plan to handle the strategic aspects remotely while a property manager handles onsite issues is smart, and as long as you log your work and stay hands-on, you’ll likely qualify for active status.

That is a very fair price from your contractor for all that work, and you are well within your right to deduct from the security deposit.

I finally had to take a week off work and make myself incredibly obnoxious to ICE (the electric company) to get everything sorted out but our power is now on. 

Shortcut those and results will be impacted...or do them well and have no concerns.

If you hired a GC to do some work, and thought that you had to be there, sit n watch them the whole time or else when not watched, they wouldn't do anything....

Lastly, you're coordinating with vendors who want to be paid for their work and time.

Again, if the numbers work, and you can fit in the cost of a PM service, what's the holdup?

And the are people that are so poor they have to do that work, and some that enjoy it.

If you just want to build your cash reserves then flipping is the way but just be careful - that too takes a lot of work and research to make sure you don’t lose money.