except that it is highly illegal to reject section 8 tenants and it lands you a big fat discrimination lawsuit. One of the reasons there are people that would rather loose their property than rent it.
Not quite true. Unless a state has statutes that make discrimination based on source of income illegal, you CAN refuse to rent to S-8. I have done that for years.
On the other hand, running background checks on S-8 will invariably drag up many skeletons which will provide a basis for rejecting applicant.
The rule is that you can’t reject Section 8 if you’ve got any other Section 8 renters in any of your other properties. You don’t have to start taking Section 8 people if you don’t have any others. It does make it very hard to get out of renting to Section 8 once you start.