Then there are the challenges with Section 8 tenants paying utilities and taking care of their rental property.

Be careful asking such questions.

No one cares about your properties like you do.

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Staff often seemed to focus on one requirement at a time, and only moving on to others as each was taken care of, instead of starting them all at the same time.

They are billed as "a scientific approach to single-family rentals" and use "institutional grade property management," which usually means they are a tech company in real estate and likely either don't have the existing property management relationships in each area or you chose an area where they don't have enough units through Roofstock for the PM they chose to care.

And if you select the Growth or Professional, you get a total of $100 in your wallet. 

Owner shouldn't care about your DTI.

Those are big issues the court seems to care about.

No idea.. nor do I care :)   Ohhhhhh snap.