Posted on 07/09/2013 10:12:43 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Owner rented a nice house via Section 8.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMt9hNa_9SA
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Just guessing here.
A softheaded Liberal is beginning his journey towards Conservatism, which, until now, he thought of as “The Dark Side”.
It might have been the area went down hill fast and the only people that would live there were section 8 types.
There was a Section 8 house in my neighborhood, and the tenants DID trash it. The owner had to plow A LOT of money into rehabbing it and bringing it back up to code to get Section 8 approved again.
The current tenants are not high-class, but at least they’re not destructive.
I sympathize with your friend in CA; here in the Czech Republic, there’s a program similar to Section 8, but you rarely find the participants concentrated in one area or particular neighborhood. There’s exceptions of course; here, the exception is known as ‘ubytovná’ - roughly the equivalent of the old boarding house idea. In reality, it’s more like a flop-house.
I’ve noticed that neighborhoods that have one of these ‘ubytovná’ tend to be a little hinky. Petty crime, mostly, drug dealers, etc. Violent crime here is pretty rare, thankfully.
I just bought a house across the street from me that was way worse, not Section 8, but the drug attict home owner inherited the house and let all of his loser frineds live there. The house had to be completely gutted down to the studs.
So have I.
If a house is treated like this, who cares about on-time rent? The government sure isn’t going to pay for the repairs and replacement of appliances.
we lived in a very affluent area in MD. The average home cost was upwards of $600,000 with more being started every day.. In that area, this happened a few times for similar reasons. One person had to move (military) another worked for state and a third was divorced.
Each had their homes ransacked during eviction proceedings and the law was not on the side of the homeowner. One home was abandoned and written off as a total loss (according to a neighbor) and the other two were sold because they didn’t want to deal with renting.
In DC, the rules make it virtually impossible to evict someone. I had a friend that lived in a three level home, each being rented. The women on the basement apartment moved in, paid first and last and didn’t pay until month 10 when she asked for her security deposit back. It took 9 months of non-payment and proof of collection efforts to get to the point when the landlord could evict and it would take a few weeks to get someone on premises to actually do it. Not sure if this is the norm but if I’m potentially thinking about renting, reports like this would give me pause.
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Only people who have nothing and seethe with greed and envy could dub someone an idiot for renting a property.
How could it possibly be right, in an agreed exchange of value, for anyone to destroy a house?
The logic is lost to some and there is no reason to try to reason with them. Ignorance is a disease that can’t be cured.
Anyone who lives in filth, decay, greed and envy deserves all they get. Serves them right.
The view of the bums was grating on him, so he wanted to put in a higher privacy fence. Being Kali, he needed a permit and variance, and at the meeting, some aging guy with a grey pony-tail told him to he wasn't going to get his variance...
Hence, in the South Park epi "Night of the Living Homeless", in the song take-off towards the end, there's the line "In the city of Venice, right by Matt's house, you can chill if you're homeless,".
I think the interview about it was in Rolling Stone.
Some times people feel sorry for the poor - feel that if they have a nice place they can start their lives over. He rented out a beautiful home to a person that acted like an animal...
Section 8 should be abolished. It’s got more perverse incentives than winter has snowflakes...
Downtown Houston has gone to lofts. Section 8 got priced out so it moved to the suburbs. The cancer is spreading. Beautiful nice new apartments become slums. Formerly nice neighborhoods become ghettos or favelas.
The cancer is spreading. There will be no revolution. There will be spreading decay, breakdown, anarchy, a die off and maybe the survivors will rebuild somehow. The cities are doomed.
on the other side of the coin. If the section 8ers trash a house, they are taken off the eligible list. However, the cost of repairs way outweigh the on-time rent benefit. I wonder if all section 8ers act like this. A buddy of mine does this and has had good luck with it.
“Downtown Houston has gone to lofts. Section 8 got priced out so it moved to the suburbs. The cancer is spreading. Beautiful nice new apartments become slums. Formerly nice neighborhoods become ghettos or favelas.”
The largest home sale in history was arranged for Obama supporters. In Tampa they bought, using government money, apparently, 28,000 homes. They will mostly be Section 8. I had to move my parents and sister out of their nice old neighborhoods because the section8-ers were literally threatening them on an almost daily basis. A black eight-year-old showed my 90 year old dad a gun and told him to get the hell out of his own back yard.
We practically gave away the two houses.
The will quite likely be an exemption for those who possess less than 3 or 5 units. At least last time I looked, FED fair housing law had the same thing, though they don’t mention it when they are advertising about non-discrimination...
No, not all are bad. Most Section 8 rentals in my area don’t result in newspaper articles or Youtube videos. It just depends on the demographics of the renters.
bkmk
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