I've learned through the years that whether your experience with Section 8 is positive or negative is heavily based on the Section 8 agency you will interact with. 

In the state of IL, the situation you are referring to is called dual agency.

You can get a free credit report once a year from each of the credit reporting agencies - and can monitor your credit report by getting one every 4 months from a different provider.Go to annualcreditreport.com, this is the Government mandated site that all 3 reporting agencies comply with.

However, you can’t garnish/intercept tax returns unless you’re a government agency or it’s a government debt. 

you can still qualify for agency debt but otherwise start making calls to lenders that offer special financing or go back to seller .. there is always a way

@Wayne Brooks It’s not an agency residential mortgage, but a commercial mortgage from a local bank.

Keep in mind that those loans with be full recourse (you have to personally guarantee them).Other food for though would be, if you decide to get into larger deals with loan balances over the $1MM then you can get non-recourse agency loans and it would be unusual for it NOT to be in an LLC.

One of the most corrupt agencies in the city.

At least 2,600 victims invested their retirement savings, totaling about $400 million.Shapiro siphoned off $35 million for his own benefit, according to prosecutors, spending $3.1 million for chartering private planes and travel, $6.7 million on a home, $2.6 million on home improvements, $1.8 million on personal income taxes, $1.4 million for his ex-wife, and more than $672,000 on luxury automobiles.Roseman received $2.5 million for himself and Acevedo received $1.1 million, prosecutors said.The Securities and Exchange Commission’s previous enforcement action in 2017 was settled in January for a total of $1 billion in penalties and disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, the agency said.

If you are seeking conventional lending, you are self-employed and you have W-2 income in any fiscal year, and if you stop working for any agency or company where you earned W-2 income, you will have a more challenging time getting loans.