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.

He also founded an HVAC company with 110 employees, and also ran several construction companies.

The issue is you cannot force insurance companies to do business in the state.

my last post on this subject.I ran into a small company  6 folks involved  boy friend girl friends  they read rich dad book then went to a guru presentation and learned about wrapping notes which of course is the bizz model your talking about.

The company cries the blues about having to inject money into maintaining the trees so they can make a profit.

I know out here on the West coast with our digitalized title plants that each title company has it would be a matter of a few clicks for customer service department to transmit a copy of the mortgage to me..

I'm the VP of a roofing company in South Florida and work with a few good PM companies on a regular basis, a lot of bad ones too.There are good and bad PMs in each of those companies. 

I own 11 properties currently and I have only sold 1 in the past because it was a condo with a fraud HOA company.

I am currently self employed as a GC with my own company: Carolina Premier Homes.

That being said, all of these lead-generating companies do the same thing and often use the same data to source contact information.