I recognize this is not the sole source of return, but the other sources have their return increase with smaller equity position. 

We've seen the rental market soften here in the greater SD area as whole, prices may continue to soften towards the end of the year. 

The problem with that is that now you're no longer tracking what you've paid to actual vendors, so you lose the ability to issue 1099's and know what you've paid who at the end of the year.  

We would never recommend that for our clients.

Owner ended up settling with the tenant, but then we had to threaten to sue our own client to get them to pay our legal fees.- Owner must sign a Hold Harmless to indemnify us against any potential tenant lawsuits relating to the work their contractor is doing.--- Another lawsuit resulted from owner's contractor taking down basement handrail to get supplies down the steps, then they didn't put it back and tenant fell down the stairs.- We also negotiate a reasonable completion date, depending on the Scope Of Work (SOW). --- Who gets all the phone calls and wastes time calming a tenant down because the owner's contractor doesn't show up as scheduled after they took time off from work or a 3 day job takes 3 weeks?

Can anyone recommend sources for contact information for property owners?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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 gurus apparently aren't savvy enough to teach how to avoid trouble.It could end up being like a cowboy fest campfire dinner of beans from the old chuck wagon.

@Alex Silangyes, i will buy - but only to BRRRR, or on seller financeand only if the numbers workmade 2 offers toward the end of last year on potential BRRRRs and got outbid. 

I do not believe theres a crash coming here , who is your source?