Also, a great portion is guaranteed by the government. 

I'm anxious about making any financial mistakes that will cause me to be in hot water with the government since I am not sure how to report income from an investment property. 

She said that she always wanted to do a presentation - "how to buy your house with government money."

They are reliant on short term financing not deposits (like a bank) or access to financing from the Federal Reserve, so “in stressful times their credit lines can be pulled.”

If you make false statements over the computer or telephone about your experience or the performance of your past investments and it induces someone to send you money that is what the government calls "wire fraud."

Did you have a Federal Pacific box? 

There must be something in the middle of my $376 TurboTax Premier (with audit protection) fee that I pay to do my own taxes (federal and 2 states that my rentals are in) and $10,000.  

I also have a very very very small chance of getting let go from my job since it is regulatory work for the state government.

I think they are rent capped by the government (I wonder when that runs out), so raising the rents is probably not an option, and having experience in this niche with all of it's "Red Tape" and paperwork would be helpful.

I have a portfolio of under 10 properties.In their services performed, my CPA wrote: "Preparation of 2016 federal and state individual income tax returns, including organization and analysis of transactions.