Just had one yesterday. Here we can’t “discriminate” against “income sources” including Section 8 applicants.
S8 61 yr old grandmother with custody of two late teen grandsons and a small dog (oh and you can’t say “no pets” here either)
Seemed like a nice lady, teen grandsons were polite, spoke correctly.
All of a sudden two “advocates” burst in on the showing. One is a part time real estate agent who herself is on Section 8 and she recently got evicted by the SAME LANDLORD THAT THIS APPLICANT CURRENTLY HAS. Current landlord is lenient, lax and selling all her rentals due to the draconian pro tenant laws since 2019.
The other agent is a 30 something young woman who basically runs a program finding housing and babysitting ne’er do well families. She herself LIVES AT HOME WITH HER PARENTS because “housing is toooooo expensive.”
They proceed to tell me that all the “i’s must be dotted and “ts” crossed on her S8 paperwork; something that the applicant herself has stated repeatedly (Umm I used to work for a housing authority and processed S8 paperwork full time so I know what I’m doing)
Applicant purposely works PART TIME because she doesn’t want to lose her S8 benefits of approx 20 years!
Then the applicant only put down her current residence and left out all her previous rental history on my application writing in “N/A” (pretty sure the agents did this for her)
I usually don’t handhold the perniciously stupid, but I have to be careful b/c she has these two housing advocates and I could easily wind up in court or fined up the wazoo.
Told her she is missing all her rental history pre 2015.
NEXT! Btw finding a qualified tenant here (and in a lot of rust belt BLUE states) is like trying to fish for marlin in a backyard puddle in winter.
“missing all her rental history pre 2015”
“N/A”
You are almost certainly being targeted.