Posted on 01/10/2015 1:06:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Those are the landlords that care about their neighborhoods and other tenants more than the short-term government payments. Section 8 is a boon to unscrupulous landlords, but a curse to neighbors and neighborhoods.
These bastards have the gall to believe that they own what they think they own! </ sarc>
I hear Section 8 and I always think of Klinger on MASH.
How much longer will they have the choice?
Certainly. That 40% of the rent thing is BS. Spendable income....and I’m guessing that income don’t include SNAP and all the other entitlements. There’s a video of a homeowner who rented out his house for $1050/month. The nice tenant only had to come up with $50 and she couldn’t do that. By the time he evicted her, she’d completely trashed the place and sold off anything of value that could be ripped out.
When getting paid by the U.S. Government becomes an “iffy” proposition, it’s always wise to not do business with it anymore. This is just good business.
I now have four properties. The only ones I’ve had problems with are people on welfare. I didn’t even know they were on welfare. But they were growing marihuana, selling steaks on the EBT plan to finance beer. They smoked the place up so I had to pain every surface after just 6 months. The police knocked down my new door. The damage they did was amazing. Plus, the moved out in August without telling me and left $100 worth of meat in the new $1100 refrigerator with the power off. Now, I insist on seeing a paycheck and a financial statement.
Other landlords have shown me pictures of Section 8 damage. Nobody has a nice Section 8 story.
But others will. Being inveterate liberals they don’t just make a quiet road to the willing customers, they filth the unwilling ones.
And their neighbors say Thank You!
"Families"?
Doubt that.
More likely single women with clutches of bastard children.
Section 8 renters typically destroy the properties they rent, and turn them into ghetto fodder.
Ugh...when my parents passed on, I had the opportunity to turn their place (in a not so good neighborhood) into a rental. But I decided I didn’t have the patience for it.
For public housing, which is in short supply.
We had tremendous problems with the Section 8rs here for a while. Then out village passed a Nuisance Property ordinance. Now when a new family moves in to one of the properties owned by out of state landlords I send them a copy of said ordinance by registered mail.
The quality of the renters has increased dramatically.
My Mom had an apt for rent a few months back..put the apt on craigslist, a woman emailed us telling us her story about how she is on Section 8, etc..the second I saw the words “Section 8” I deleted her email
Most people can get SSI and skip the waiting list for Section 8, which can take years.
Fixed it for you.
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She's also, no doubt, on Food Stamps and possibly FI.
Section 8 housing usually destroys the neighborhood. Why? Because the recipients have little, if any, skin in the game.
If Section 8 was a good deal for landlords, there would be no waiting for housing.
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