As a Realtor, I work around the clock to help my clients get ahead of the competition (figuratively and sometimes literally).I tried buying and operating my own rental properties.

Talk about baptism by fire - literally!

Those who are HUNGRY for that knowledge, and reward... from a NEED as well as want and desire, perspective, based on CIRCUMSTANCE... vs. someone who isn't literally, HUNGRY for it... and THEREFORE, prepared to TAKE ACTION!)

The issue I find is that when I go to list my units, which are clean and moderately upgraded apartments in Little Havana and Allapattah I literally have 70 applicants in 24hrs via facebook marketplace or through the apartment rental platform my property management software interfaces with (like Apartments.com etc).So when I have 70 people lining up with first, last and deposit with no other middleman or agency impeding the process or requiring inspections or causing delays or requesting additional paperwork be filled out where is my incentive to go the section 8 route?

If you literally are going to lose $500/mo when you move out, I'd consider somewhere else.

I don't mean literally one property or one stock. 

Literally the worst thing you can do. 

They literally cannot get a carrier to insure the home. 

I sold all of them, and moved my investments to the other side of town, literally. :-)Columbus is, however, an amazing market for returns.

At that stage you can literally just take their money, put zero of your own and give back X% of gains at the end.