This includes placement of a sign and a lockbox.

Numbers won't be perfect or precise. 

Do you recall the precise terms of the exclusivity period?

Most housing authorities have a horrible placement process that takes 2-3 months to get the tenant into the house.

Insurance placements is another niche within MTRs.

It really boils down to the tenant placement fee.

So as an investor one might want to re-evaluate their traditional investing strategies and focus on turnkey property operations that specialize in section 8 placement, oversight and tenancy.

I love real estate precisely because of the control it gives me, and the monthly income.

I also buy real estate & other hard assets like oil & metals precisely because they can serve as a currency of their own & protect me from government & the dollar.Cryptos are in their infancy & I understand your skepticism as they have a long way to go & will become hard asset backed like a gold standard after the next crash.

There are a limited number of private placements that are open to non-accredited.