You can collect payment directly through airbnb or collect it through your payment processor (mine is Stripe) on your direct booking website. 

Based on a quick answer from Perplexity it seems like there would be no issue with you buying the home and collecting passive income, but you may not be allowed to manage it yourself since that is considered active work.

Current PM behind one month payments to owner and already collected from tenants.How to get Security Deposits of the existing tenants from current PM and how to transfer to new PM company.

Those willing to go beyond that could be good partners for real estate investors.Traditional banks/Local Banks and non-bank lenders - If they are a portfolio lender, meaning they actually hold on to the loan and don't just collect your payment, then they have the ability to be flexible.

I always collect social security numbers, driver's license numbers, date of birth, etc.

(Yes it still happens, but it is a lease violation, and we have a solid leg to stand on should we need to pursue eviction or collections later.)

We try to set up at least 3 timeslots each week when we can schedule all the showings to minimize the tenant interuptions.If they won't cooperate or cancel too many scheduled showings, we warn them we will pursue collections to the fullest extent of the law. 

In some parts of the sun belt, I have been told that you can collect far higher rents doing Section-8 than you can regular Tenants.

The wrestling and wrangling you would have to do to collect would never be worth your time. 

Way to many investors were buying properties for more then they were worth with hopes of collecting MUCH MORE than market rent.