The GC will make his profit and overhead regardless but if he's coordinating the electrician and plumber etc. as well he can make a few more bucks.

I got a reliable contractor, electrician, HVAC, and plumber that I can contact to schedule repairs, and tenants will leave keys in the lockbox.

The only reason I'm posting is because this was already bumped up, so my post isn't bumping this too much at all.I see the OP has never chimed in, yet she got her 100 post thread award, LOL.This RE "Investor" industry is packed full of "educators", gurus, wannabe gurus, mentors, coaches and other leaches.The mentor/apprentice scam is centuries old, the master/apprentice approach is alive and well in various industries, take a plumber or electrician or a doctor or an attorney.

If you're not handy have an electrician put one in for you. 

The trick is, I too am busy with running jobs that has in-house crews, so I'll simply act as your typical GC or commercial GC / paperwork contractor on this to divide my time, I could fill out the gaps but I couldn't use majority of my workforce because i have deadlines also, i could fill in a tradesman or two when there's a hiccup, say when a plumber or electrician doesn't show or keeps pushing the schedule out, but that's about it.

On the good side, my electrician is phenomenal.  

When sending a service person out to your rental (plumber, electrician, etc), I know I have an ethical (and perhaps even legal) responsibility for my tenants safety, assuming this person will be in the unit alone with my tenant.

Plumbers, electricians, boiler techs, engineers and architects are but contractors are not.

Some of these are folks working at Plant Vogtle (electricians, pipe fitters, plumbers, etc.); single guys working six and seven days a week, 10 to 12 hour shifts making great hourly wages.  

@Alexander TimberlakeI used to use home warranty, but then I started building up handymen and electricians in my area.