I have been a lurker on this site for many months but decided its time to introduce myself to the community and get more involved. 

You can use the site to sell by owner or rent, I don’t care and again the goal is to help military members.

You need to be "on site" or it will go south quickly.

You simply can't beat the motivated lead contacting you.There's plenty of low cost options . . . you need a mobile optimized HTTPS site with good conversion set-up.

If they are able to do leasing, rent collection, maintenance, etc, then you should be able to pay the PM less to do their job, while gaining the benefit of an on-site person

For landlords in regards to section 8 is there something I’m missing that makes this deal “risky” or “complicated” from a Buy n Hold perspective?

Some of these students have one month or more "rotations," or learning blocks which they float site to site at various teaching areas their last year of school- hospitals, outpatient community offices, government facilities, etc.  

No real estate advertisement placed or caused to be placed by a licensee shall be fraudulent, false, deceptive or misleading.(2) When the licensee’s personal name appears in the advertisement, at the very least the licensee’s last name must be used in the manner in which it is registered with the Commission.(3)(a) When advertising on a site on the Internet, the brokerage firm name as required in subsection (1) above shall be placed adjacent to or immediately above or below the point of contact information.

I said I don't want to have deals come to me that have gone to 50 other people if I want that I can just get on MLS..or the auction sites.. if you want to send me a deal and only me.. then OK.. well that pretty much ended that. :)

Does anybody pay for sites or just stick with Zillow and Facebook marketing?