Here's a blog I wrote on the subject if you are interested.https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/9232/55313-intro-to-section-8---your-perceptions-vs-my-realities

It also requires gaining a level of sophistication and knowledge that not everyone has the time, inclination or ability to do.

People with high FICO scores, etc etc are financially sophisticated individuals.

Its all about attitude and perception.  

My intention is never to see if they are qualified to answer my question or not...It's always pretty easy to assess the credibility of answers based on their content and sophistication.

Investors who have focused their careers on residential real estate may have shied away from commercial properties simply due to the perception that the associated risks and costs are great or that the down payment is prohibitive.

You have to eliminate years of negative perception about the property from people's minds.

Also, some of the more sophisticated flippers do SFR flips more as a BRRRR (rent out initially, then sell later) than a traditional flip.

Perception being of greater physiological value than reality.

May or not be better, but it's about perception.