I'm a local, CT based investor, flipper, and property management company owner.  

Or hire a PM company to manage for you?

There is one city where I rent some houses and almost everyone that calls ask who the PM is and say they won't rent from anyone that uses X company as their PM.  

We're also seeking to buy a local (Raleigh / Durham) property management company to expand that business more rapidly.

I got a quote from Ackerman today for to install a fairly basic alarm system for $700.Any suggestions on alarm companies in Atlanta.

I was just scammed/mislead by two sketchy Real Estate Wholesaling companies here in El Paso, Texas.

you can utilize a skip tracing company to get contact information for the owners.

My question is when applying for the lease, most properties in my market are run by a management company.

In Columbus, you can still find the 1% rule and there's amazing appreciation potential due to how much population growth, job growth, and companies moving/developing there (recently Anduril just announced another 4,000 jobs coming to Columbus Ohio on top of Intel, Google, Amazon, FB, Nationwide, Ohio State University, etc.).

Their return is better than most note companies.