I would stick with individuals at those lower price points. 

I’ve joined this community to connect, learn, and grow alongside like-minded individuals.

Any thoughts if an individual property can negative cash flow to provide capital as long as the portfolio is still positive? 

It's important to understand the difference, and I'd recommend sticking with the REIT with depreciation advantages.The Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) includes a 199A deduction and applies to certain income from pass-through entities (including REIT dividends) and allows individuals to take the 20% deduction against REIT dividend distributions that yields an effective tax rate of 29.6% or 37% (80% for upper bracket filers).

I was told the investor pays to lease out the entire flat for 6-12 months and then sub-leases the individual rooms for a profit.

In order to avoid wasting time on a bunch of individual showings with unqualified applicants, perhaps consider doing what I do and host “open house” style showing windows. 

Can we hear from individuals who have experienced sustained success buying section 8 rentals while relying on entirely 3rd party service providers? 

@Bill HaleyHad a meeting this past week with some individuals who raise some serious $ and discussing what works and does not work in an offering and one of the things these people were saying is real estate offerings using crypto and blockchain / tokenization is not attracting many HNW individuals.

I'm using the heck out of virtual accounts and virtual cards, which is helping keep my finances much more organized for each individual property.

Are utilities paid by individual unit tenants?