The Section 8 crowd thinks they’re not problem tenants, do they? Just about every rental ad in my local newspaper says “NO SECTION 8” - gee...you’d think in this housing market landlords would love someone who’s rent payment is guaranteed....
...until you see the way they treat your property. I have a Section 8 living next door to me. The weeds are a foot tall in the front yard and all the long-hair hippy hubby does all day is tinker with his non-running car.
I used to work next to a section 8 apartment complex. The rent was subsidized but tenants still had to pay some little rent, depending on income.
There was a big story in the local paper about the guy who owned the complex turned off the water, which was included, because of nonpayment of rents. Some of the tenants’ share were as little as $25 a month and they just wouldn’t pay. I also had to send the cops over there to kick in the door of a guy who stole beer from the store I worked at. Armed robbery, since he showed me the gun tucked in his waistband.
There are a few section 8 houses a couple blocks south of me. They are just as you describe, one with a big “NO TRESPASSING” sign. Uh, yeah.