I am currently looking for a trusted contractor to remodel one of my unit bathrooms.

Want to remodel before we offer it.

I avoid companies with this fee as well, but I also wouldn't trust a PM to fully handle a large repair or remodel without input from me.

Go see a remodeler/architect. 

In the pre-pandemic days, Diversified Investors had van tours of remodels.

My capex budget includes but is not limited to: roof 25 life span, floors 10 year life span, appliances and hot water heater 12 year life span, hvac 20 tear life span, bath and kitchen remodel 20 year life span.

Deals are hard unless you buy a complete remodel, and even then the numbers are difficult to justify.  

We did a cosmetic kitchen remodel (repainted walls, cabinets, installed tile), laid LVP throughout the house, and cleaned up the bathrooms.

Great tip for finding those GCs is to find a house being sold by Zillow or Opendoor, call them and ask who did the renovation, those companies already did all the work to find GCs that are willing to give good prices for volume work.It’s been my experience in Austin that GCs that do high volume work de-prioritize small residential remodels, so you’ll be waiting months for your project to be finished. 

I received a quote for about 25k for a remodel.