Airbnb and Vrbo will expect your rental to get 5 star reviews, to them anything less is a bad review. 

Good/bad ?

Best part is NJ is not what its made out to be in terms of landlord friendly, the state gets portrayed as the entire state being bad when really most wacky laws are in the major cities and they apply to 5 units or more.  2-4 unit multi families fly below radar per say. 

I feel like it would be great to trust a property management company on all of this, but it would be hard not to step in if you could do a better job at screening bad tenants (eg screening HUGE future problems).I initially managed properties myself, but now I delegate that responsibility to my business partner, personal assistant, or a property manager at my brokerage.Most PMs I know will send you an applicant for final approval and you can get on the phone with them and ask them questions

Started REI in August of '23. Purchased a test pilot home for shared housing.  It was successful so I bought 2 more.  I am pleased with the results so far.  Using Padsplit along with FB Marketplace and Turbo Tenant fo...

For anyone starting out in real estate, I hope my story gives you a sense of what to expect (the good and the bad!)

Quote from @Jake Andronico: @Alan AsriantsReally not that bad (in my experience), and most people aren't willing to do it.

The best way to get started in REI is but treating it like a business, and you don't need 100K to start.

Does this mean section 8 is bad, NO, but this can happen in any city or state.

Yea, this may be a bad tenant, but you have to know how to manage that and not get all twisted up in back-and-forth pettiness.