Since you are looking for passive income from a rental to aid in your income once you hit FIRE & retire, I'd focus on building a portfolio that begins to build on that cash flow to replace your W-2 salary. 

driving for dollars, Google PPC

Your basement unit is irrelevant to this, and I would just delete that part of your post if I were you.I just googled “do I have to accept section 8” and sure enough, in NY you do. 

You can simply google NACA and find their website and information to learn more about it.

LolThe two big companies I found on Google are ThinkUtilityService & GuardianWP.

There are multiple billion dollar companies dumping money into the city, such as Intel, Google, and Amazon.

Most recently I am using Fidelity's full view product as they are the broker I primarily deal with.I have some historical spreadsheets on Google drive but they mostly just show monthly pay/bills rather than providing any comprehensive statement of our finances.

Our current inventory can be found on our website via the links to the live google documents, but I will send them to you as well. 

Could probably share an outside view of this interaction, but you have to address these situations head on or they will take over your property.Recent D story you can google is Western Manor Apartments in Dayton, OH. 15-16 years ago the property was a war zone!!!

Google PPC How did you finance this deal?