In the past, I've found them to be good information for market insight and referrals. 

Note that CA tends to have higher tax rates so if CA taxes $10k of rental income sourced in Ohio at a 9% rate, but you only paid, say, 4% to Ohio, maybe you'll get a credit for the 4%, but you're likely still paying the 5% differential to CA. 

@Adam GottRecommend 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.

Folks tend to far underestimate the cost, and length of time, that it takes to rebuild from a disaster such as this.

Now with heat, people do tend to be a bit more reasonsable.

Of course, with all things, the answers to all these matters will depend on the circumstances.California tends to have more laws on the books and requirements and restrictions that it can be a good idea to form a CA LLC for out of state property so that you as a CA resident are covered, and to try to have your contracts fall under the purview of CA courts.

It also regularly puts out deals at low 65% or less LTV, and high 10%+ skin in the game/co-investment etc.They market under 506B so are prohibited from posting publicly on the Internet and instead function by referrals.

You can still find deals via referrals or pocket listings which are cheaper but you will spend more time to build the connections and relationships.

What I mean is that properties with extremely high cash flow on paper will TEND to have more costly capex issues, more maintenance issues, and higher rates of turnover and delinquency.

@Federico SarcinaRecommend 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.