The first apartments I rented as the owner, were previously rented by the former owner at $150 month including utilities. 

Conventional non-owner occupied. 25% down.

Finally, someone responded on the 4th day stating they could not cancel it so I decided to wait for it rather than order a different one. 15 days later, they send me an email letting me know to expect the refund for that bedframe.

Can anyone recommend sources for contact information for property owners?

I have used owner finance and hard money mostly to build my portfolio but need some institutional refi in the future.I'm also thinking about how this affects taxes, insurance.Thanks in advance for sharing your opinions!

Hi, I am the owner of DealMachine.

Possible to maybe build one similar to this with an add on for small business owners and REI's. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xYOKT2eNS588cj6_8jVv2vobAfAhCVUd/htmlview#gid=1221524195

so those owners are pretty comfortable - no mortgage payment - and they don't need to sell, and they don't care where an investor "needs" the price to be to make money. 

I allow pets and charge a pet rent of $35 a month, its nice bit of extra money and pet owners tend to stay longer as tenants.

@Rafael Valdor some advice when screening PMCs-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.