I want to bring on a part time employee to work in house as the PM in addition to other tasks.

A motel/hotel is an active business with employees.

Employee vs contractor positions would may negatively impacted.

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I work as a W2 employee making $17/hr.

This way, they will have less overheads on employees and are also less distracted from their main focus, i.e., raising capitals and other RE projects. 

65 unit ain't nothing to self-manage and if you hire an in-house employee then you have to manage and pay the employee more than you paid a PM.

You're treating her as an employee...with a 15% bonus. 

Would you negotiate with your employees about how much you were paying them?

When you hire the sub contractor many workers show up to work on the job and you don't know Adam from Eve regarding whether or not your Prime Contractor is using sub contractors because your Prime Contractor can lie to you and tell you every worker is one of his employees.