I’m passionate about the senior living industry and providing a high-quality environment for residents.

Two tips: pick one tight market and build a daily pipeline (pull leads, make quality calls, follow up next day), and line up 3 real buyers with exact criteria so you can reverse‑engineer every offer.What city are you working and when do you want to lock up your first contract by?

We use AffordableHousing.com selectively, and I’d frame it less as a replacement for Zillow/Redfin and more as a compliance and targeting tool.What it does well• It is one of the first places Section 8 and voucher holders are trained to check• Many PHAs directly reference or scrape from it• It reduces back-and-forth with housing authorities when listings are already visible thereIf you manage or market voucher-friendly inventory, it helps keep your pipeline full with applicants who are already program-aware.Where it falls short• Lead quality is very different than Zillow type traffic• Expect higher volume, lower readiness, and more incomplete applications• The manual entry and lack of clean PM software integrations is the biggest pain point• For conventional rentals, ROI is usually weakHow we’ve made it workable• Only post units that accept vouchers• Use templates and bulk workflows internally so staff isn’t recreating listings from scratch• Treat it as a filtering mechanism, not a conversion engine• Push serious applicants back into your PM software immediatelyBottom lineIf 60 percent of your leads are already coming from Zillow/Redfin and converting cleanly, I wouldn’t expect AffordableHousing.com to outperform that.But if you manage a meaningful amount of affordable or voucher inventory in a diverse market like Tucson, it can be worth it only if you systemize the data entry and set expectations internally around lead quality.Used intentionally, it fills a specific lane.

Tally past 5 years sold 3 and purchased 3 but with notable improvements in the overall quality of the products even after taxes and transaction costs. 

In some ways it is turnkey (mechanicals, quality finishes in high touchpoint areas), but in other ways there's additional equity to build from the start (space to add additional livable sq ft).

Notably, we manage Section 8 units (listed from southwest to northwest) in 35022, 35020, 35023, 35127, 35224, 35005, 35214, and 35073.That said, it’s far more difficult to name the “best” zip codes for Section 8, since you would need to factor in numerous additional risk and reward factors (e.g. rent growth potential, neighborhood quality, vacancy risk, turnover risk, repair risk, etc.).

The remainder should go back to him in the same method as he paid to you.

I think I am using the KISS method (Keep it simple stupid) but perhaps I am missing something. 

Good quality housing is in short supply and high demand in Chicago.  

The straightforward method is to do everything yourself, as in my example above.