A good agent will vet the buyer and their agent before you sign a contract and they'll shoo away ridiculous requests before they get to you. 

Long vacancies (6 months+), ridiculous turn times and costs, surprise add-on fees, several days to answer questions, and then responses incomplete.   

This is super ridiculous I agree.

It's ridiculous, 1 mill a year167 props,  with 50k in saving and credit of 8k, come on , I am saying this post reads like a FB post, 

It just got so ridiculous. 

These boom and bust cycles always make the boom time prices look ridiculous and the bust time prices look like the sky is falling.But the reality is this place has been steady and above average growth for decades. 

Hard hard pass on section 8OCCASIONALLY I'll take a tenant with rental assistance from a group like Salvation Army or something only because the paperwork is less ridiculous.

I sat through 2 ridiculous training sessions then they took control of my meta account and 4 months later, I still can’t get them off of it.

Ridiculous!

However, once I signed an agreement, they sent me an even longer punch list, approaching $2K for a while bunch of silly things, none of which would deter tenants (proven once I switched away from RL) and all of them carrying ridiculous surcharge prices way higher that one may see even in most expensive coastal markets like CA and NYC.