Section 8 = property damage (more often than not)
My guess is he makes a living renting to Cornellians, and having non-students move into quasi-student housing would change the atmosphere significantly.
Thanks to Cornell, the short-medium term rental market in Ithaca is huge. I lived in college town for a year.
Yes, often.
But some of my best renters were section 8.
My method of interviewing helped me to have good ones.
I always met them at their car to welcome them.
If I smelled cigarette smoke or saw a pile of beer bottles, no go.
Stereo loud, or loud exhaust, nope.
Seemed to work ok.
I had a Section 8 tenant for years. I had no problems with the government but the tenant eventually turned into a mess. Prior to renting to her, the government agent recommended that I interview the potential tenant at her residence to see how she kept the place. All looked good and I rented to her. Problems soon developed with her kids breaking anything they could. Years later when she made an idle threat to move out I accepted it and told her to vacate within 30 days. She really turned me off to owning rental property and ended my dreams of a rental real estate empire. There is no sense in laying awake every night wondering what your tenant has broken.
In the military-—
Section 8 == unfit for service due to mental issues== discharged