And many will rip out and sell the plumbing fixtures, appliances.
as i have heard section 8 houses are kept up to date and in good shape by the government once in the system and a lot of the housing owners are lawyers making big bucks with no landlord downside.
My previous renter wasn't section 8. She was a white meth head. She destroyed all of the household appliances, the toilet, the shower valve and all of the kitchen cabinets. It cost me nearly $20,000 to repair all the damage and replace the appliances. In addition, she was 8 months behind in rent. It was difficult to get her out.
My new tenants helped immensely in removing the trash from the prior tenants. They had an urgent need to get a house in the school district, so the clean-up I wanted to do wasn't done before they needed to move in. At this point, I still need to refinish the kitchen walls above the back splashes and finish the tiling around the new shower valve. Everything else is in good order with respect to the house. The new tenants are splitting the tee pee, so there is a disruption in rent payment again.