Before you go this route be 100% sure that you will actually save money.

Is is because they don't want to take the time to actually manage a property and find tenants for it ?

Provide the buyer the county planning contacts, keep a copy of the job card.I believe the issue is that most permitting agencies place a 1 year deed restriction against selling as part of an “owner builder permit”….so as to keep non actual owner occupants from using the owner occupant exemption to do flips and such.

Just need to set expectations for what you're actually getting in return, a small condo is not going to be life changing wealth.

How you find the actual owners and get past their registered agents?

I put this last, because I think the first three are more important to actually getting a home.

I'm actually a bit stuck here myself. 

Also the pay is usually pretty competitive especially considering how little work you actually have to do.

for example Chris, here's the actual DSCR from marketing vs reality and this is coming from one the best sponsor outthere:---------------promise---DSCR every quarter-----DSCR1.100.8440.8100.8130.817DSCR 1.71  1.16 1.1 1.0 1.05As you can see DSCR went down by 0.30 - 0.70 in some extreme cases and most lender I analyzed is also having similar pattern.so big sponsor is also decaying slowly....

In my head I see that the property value must come down to it's actual value (minus all liens/rehab) before discounting it for the cash buyer and then taking your assignment cut.