------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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.

The other California investors with more moderate incomes bought years ago and have built wealth from 30+ years of appreciation and small mortgages and their rental income supplements their pension or Social Security and retirement accounts. 

If all else take your concerns to yelp and social media. 

Wholesaling is a mirage that social media and fake gurus make seem easy when in reality, most fail miserably and spend their money on one month of marketing when everyone knows it takes six to eight months of cross-platform marketing to make stuff happen.My best advice is not to wholesale.

Since they are social workers, they are always overworked & underpaid.

My biggest recommendation is to look on social media and see who the “big” players are for investor focused teams in your area.

At this point with Whalen the fall guy for the criminal activity its my opinion that Clayton and wife while going through a great deal of drama and trauma being the focus of so much civil litigation and public assassination on social media   will just live out their lives here in this country hardly any kind of exile.. 

If you're really making moves in the market, it's unlikely you're also slinging how-to's over social media.

Maybe it's social media.

With many kids and adults today hiding behind social media and having trouble communicating, we have found some significant growth and added value with having him do this.