Beware if you are Selling Homes as there are individuals that will pick off your listing and post your home on Craiglist with false information and lead on individuals as if it were there own home without asking. 

Would it be absurd to use my trade skills to bargain for a lower rental cost?

I feel fine, and make up an absurdly low number or tell them that estimates are for my review only...and suggest they come in as competitively as possible. 2.

Issac- thank you for letting me know these figures aren't absurd.  

Doesn't it make much more sense, for new investors to start with a low price home, verses high price ones, considering their lack of money in the beginning? I live in South Florida, in a modest city, whose home prices...

I sympathize with your nightmare tenant situation, but that last paragraph is absurd.

That is absurd.  

Hello all,My name is Gary Shaw and after several false starts, I'm trying again.  

You are working under the false premise that Sec 8 tenants are not picky.

Just a reminder, stating income on an application that is false is mortgage fraud.