You can find a brokerage that will list your property for a flat fee and you handle the transaction.

(I could also PM you to discuss) My thoughts would be to offer a flat rate for essential services that would include all supplies. 

Time to start screening potential tenants.

You would be doing them a bigger favour to simply have them move on to a new permanent location.With proper screening good tenants are a dime a dozen, find a new one. 

We recently moved to Texas and bought our first investment property.Let me start by saying I have very high and consistent screenings- all my tenants in our other homes are model (learned the hard way several years ago when we dabbled before the crash).

I will be doing simple maintenance, also painting with flat latex and a paint gun (same colors) but have lined up a maintenance guy who does bigger stuff and was recommended by a friend.

I realize that my quality will go down with the renters also but I also know that if I screen correctly that I can find some good section 8 tenants.

You have no way of knowing the whole story with them renting the unit because you didn't screen them yourself.

It's easy to use, and they charge a flat $3 per transaction they do.

Yes definitely,I'm attempting to screen properties by doing a preliminary analysis before I ask my agent to check them out.