I feel your pain.

You get a better deal, add another rental property, and they save time, money, and emotional pain dealing with it. 

They can be a pain to deal with.Generally, they also have slightly lower rents than SFHs.

Painful lesson with dealing with contractors.

Painful lesson in dealing with contractors.

@Timur Abdullin - Sorry, I don't have any specific recs for Pittsburgh, or PA in general. 

So, the title company will send you electronic copies you will print out, (you will have to pre-sign a few days ahead of closing more than likely), get witnesses by a notary, 'overnight it', and when your inked signatures are back stateside, they will fund the loan.We were stationed in Okinawa for a couple of years - LOVED it - but it is a pain to try to do business with the time difference.

@Trent Williams, these kind of problems are a pain. 

It would just spreadout his "pain."

While I've never been a landlord of section 8 in the Chicago/Cook county area, I have in other parts of the world and there are a lot of extra hoops to jump through, inspections to be completed and frankly, it was a pain and frustrating at times.