If you crash and burn...they'll just take the property back.

This sounds more like the ideal way to dip your toe in section 8 waters with little risk of a burn, whereas we went into this 100% blind and so far have not been burned.

Sure, they're a slow burn at first, but if you are looking for higher returns and more passive experiences in the long run, you'd be better off finding properties in markets with more aggresive equity growth and landlord friendly laws.

I couldn't upload any more images, just imagine burned areas, disgusting bathrooms, drug paraphernalia, dog poop, toilets overflowing with rotten food and poop, it was disgusting, outside of the house there were shopping carts full of stuff over grown grass and weeds.

unless that $90k is really burning your pocket, i don't see why you can't find a better use for it (i.e., something producing > $75/mo). 

Unfortunately from everything I hear you can screen all you want, but will still get burned, so I'm trying to make sure to cover all of my bases with screening people.I just bought my place about 4 months ago and I have had the mindset to hold off until finding a great tenant since they had to evict one of the tenants before my closing.

:)I threw the doors out, burned the wood paneling and subfloor (stay upwind!)

here is a better tip... use burner app.no additional phones, no prepaid crap. all you do is buy tokens to keep the new number it was created and when you dont need the number anymmore, you burn it with a click.this way you can have 1 number for stroller on CL, another number for quotes, a third number for that annoying neighbor that keeps calling u.https://www.youtube.com/watch?

My tenants are great.....but if I don't get to market rates, that's like burning cash. 

Its a great market but I have seen many distance investors burned here as well.