I am sorry you are going through this however I was impressed by your responses. 

This is my first post on bigger pockets and I am genuinely impressed with the response.

When you add inflation (3-5%), taxes (3% {30% tax bracket}), and human emotion (3%), your impressive 8% annualized S&P return is 0%.

I started recently down the real estate path, prior to discovering BP, but now that I've found it, I'm really impressed with the information here!

I was under the impression hard money lenders were costly.

I interviewed with KW a couple years ago and was very impressed.  

My impression is that a similar home in some of the SE neighborhoods rents for a little bit more (~$100/month) than the NE/NW neighborhoods, but that's based on my own informal survey of the market.

(Not looking to start another debate about Section 8 rentals - I understand the pros & cons)Here's my question: I'm under the impression that one of the criteria for receiving a voucher was having dependents.

For some reason I was under the impression that Norada was a provider themselves.  

They use hand-writing fonts with actual ball point pens, make intentional mistakes to make it look human-written, there's a noticeable pen impression on the paper, ...I have some background in mass marketing and 1.6% for an untargeted campaign is about the usual expected response.