Another thing to think about is whether or not you want to inherit that tenant vs selecting your own.

Some markets have been hit harder than others of course.It's probably a result of sample selection bias because people that are on BiggerPockets are interested in real estate investing and far more likely to be educated on the subject and therefore better equipped to handle a crisis like this.

Suppose I don’t have a realtor selected, a lender, PM picked out, etc.

Please be sure to select a Solo 401k plan provider which allows you to take a loan and will prepare the required 401k loan documents.The repayment terms are equal monthly/quarterly payments (as you prefer) of principal and interest (e.g. prime + 1%) spread over a 5 year term (or longer if you will use the loan to purchase your primary residence).There are no prepayment penalties and no restrictions on what you can do with the proceeds of the 401k loan.Please note that you are obligated to pay back their 401k (regardless of the performance of your real estate investment).As an alternative to taking the loan, you could even purchase the investment property directly using funds in your Solo 401k (assuming you select a Solo 401k plan provider which allows you to invest in real estate).

Please be sure to select a Solo 401k plan provider which allows you to take a loan and will prepare the required 401k loan documents.The repayment terms are equal monthly/quarterly payments (as you prefer) of principal and interest (e.g. prime + 1%) spread over a 5 year term (or longer if you will use the loan to purchase your primary residence).There are no prepayment penalties and no restrictions on what you can do with the proceeds of the 401k loan.Please note that you are obligated to pay back their 401k (regardless of the performance of your real estate investment).As an alternative to taking the loan, you could even purchase the investment property directly using funds in your Solo 401k (assuming you select a Solo 401k plan provider which allows you to invest in real estate).

We selected TenantCloud for our property management software, based on evaluations we did a few years ago, and they have done well, except for a few unresolved bugs, but there are many others that have popped up in recent years.

Was speaking in generalities, not accounting for the select few who have held land and operations since Jesus was a pup.

I'm wondering if this represents an accurate picture of Section-8 tenants, or if it is more of a combination of Section-8 housing and survivorship bias.For those who don't know, survivorship bias is a common type of selection bias in statistics that refers to the fallacy of believing that a select group of people who have passed certain unintentional qualifications are an accurate representation of the entire population.

I was also looking at selecting something different (not rentals) to invest my retirement account into besides stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.

@John GallagherA piece of advice when selecting a lender is to chose a smaller local lender and stay away from the big banks.