Posted on 01/10/2015 1:06:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I’m for 1099ing all payments so that it can register how much they are receiving from the private sector.
Not to tax it of course, but for it just to register.
Crack pipe explosion?
If she gets SSD that’s $2000 a month. She could rent a nice apartment in any suburb in the country.
Unless she’s lying about being disabled.
They’ll steal the sink, the appliances, the bath fixtures (at least the ones they haven’t broken) Copper pipes, copper wiring, the AC unit, the heater unit - anything they can pull out and sell. And they’ll pull down all the sheetrock trying to find it.
Re: “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.”
Absolutely correct!! I have lived in two different neighborhoods that had some section 8 renters - all absolute disasters. The properties had to be totally renovated after the criminals who lived there got through destroying the place, yards gone, trash always present, grocery store carts piled up, burglaries, cars coming and going at all hours, drug sales, then on top of that, you never could tell who all lived there.
They needs the children to get on welfare to start with.
They can.
A landlord can refuse to rent a place to someone who is a deadbeat or has had problems taking good care of a previous rental.
You just can’t deny rental to someone simply because they’re poor.
She’s probably not even on disability. She’ probably on SSI, which is basically welfare paid from Federal tax dollars. It’s “needs based” and you qualify because you never worked.
And I am one of them.
The government requirements for qualifying for renting out a home on Section 8 are horrendous. Far, far more than the quality of the people they put in it.
As well you should.
I know if they have kids they can get SSI for sure. SSI is administered by SSA, but doesn’t come from SS funding. That comes straight from the FED IIRC.
Couldn’t come up with $50.for her share of the rent or didn’t want to, because she thought she should live there for free?
I have seen so many house trashed from Sec 8.My neighborhood was once decent and now it has become a cesspool with many apts now taking Sec 8.
Don’t expect tenants to follow the rules if management isn’t serious about them.
Unfortunately, name of the game, right there. 200 units, owned by a corporate entity, damage to property is a write off. According to the laws in California, in order to rent out a large number of units, a certain amount must be certified as low income.
Not only are we subsidizing the Section 8 vouchers (as taxpayers), the poor blasters who are renting from the same entity, up on the ridge, near the lake, and across from the tony town center, are paying for it, in increased rent
That happens less because of low income renters than landlords don’t set high standards for the tenants.
Rules should be simple: keep the place clean, no drug dealing, no prostitution, no loud music and TV and no harassing other tenants, visitors or service personnel.
It shouldn’t be hard for people to follow them if they want to stay in an apartment.
S8 is for large apartment complexes that have many units to fill. I’m small time, I own 4 rentals. And I refuse to have the government involved where it doesn’t belong.
You’d be better off going through the neighborhood at night with your neighbors and torching all the unoccupied potential Section 8 houses you could find. Nothing but crime and trouble.
Anyone who doesn’t have income or assets will probably be approved for SSI.
The government stopped public housing quite a while ago, and you would be surprised at the number of single family dwellings they infest neighborhoods with. It is their way of dispersing diversity throughout this country. It isn’t just apartments by any means.
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