She didn't get those rug rats by just sitting on it.
We own a few apartment units. Every time I break down and let a section 8 tenant in because of some sob story, she starts competing with the regional sperm bank before the first month is over.
If they did it quietly, that would be OK, but every one of them has had all night parties with drugs, booze, lots of sex, and loud music. They drive out the tenants with jobs who have to get up in the morning and go to work.
“We own a few apartment units. Every time I break down and let a section 8 tenant in because of some sob story, she starts competing with the regional sperm bank before the first month is over.”
I have family that owns rental units, and they won’t cave on section 8 because of such horror stories (he still has prospective productive tenants, and understands they’ll flee if any of the four units goes to welfare folk). When the law so strongly supports tenants, and makes evicition so difficult for section 8ers, it really is risking getting into that market.Landlords make a deal with the Devil when they accept them; they’ll get their gubmint rent checks on time, but the property (and neighborhood) are trashed.
Landlords lose their political independence when they start taking gubmint money in the section 8 program; when Caesar pays the rent they must support the party that will keep the payments coming...