The biggest downside is that it holds the stink.

Downsides - They don't play well with others, e.g., their integrations with other platforms that can potentially make your life easier aren't as strong as Airbnb's. 

The downsides to avoiding Section 8 in an area where you can't legally discriminate against it are you're shrinking your pool of possible non-Section 8 renters as well. 

The downside, as you wisely stated is that there is a lot of misinformation out there these days.Also, you must have read my mind - I had printed out Pub 527 earlier today to do more research. 

And insurance Is not about repairs .... its about rebuilding when the building burns down, or paying the lawsuit when you are sued, etc  in any game i think its best to control the risks you can - so insurance covers some of your down side risk at a very small price.  

Versus putting all the eggs into one basket.The downside is that someone has to be comfortable with turning over control to someone else.

But I have read about many posts about the downside of subleasing?

The downside is that becoming a REALTOR and staying can be expensive and hard to make a living.

However, it does require a business account with cash holdings and also good enough credit for the bank to have a LOC on file to protect their downside. 

Definitely the long term rental case should be covered as well especially for those remote investors want to self manage and listing agents or PM company :) The downside of current Chat gpt model is they cannot integrate with location service and cannot infer based on the photos directly.