Well I recently qualify for Sec 8 and found out alot of owners dont accept it. It made me wonder why so I did some research on yahoo answers. Now I know and it sucks that they may think all section 8 tenants are bad and irresponsible. I'm not one of them and Im here to prove you wrong! Rent is paid on time. Im responsible, and i dont destroy property. Did i grow up in a gang, violent neighborhood? HELL NO. Am I educated? Well I guess I could say I am since i'm in college, under 20 and i dont plan to have freaking babies. You may not be convinced until you meet one. On the other hand I'd like to say that those BAD tenants are really really stupid. However too bad homeowners havent met good responsible tenants. I'm sure they are out there.
Now share your experience with Sec 8 tenants
2007-06-13 08:39:32 · 5 answers · asked by Missy J 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
Well, a recent one locked her keys in the house. So she took an axe to my very expensive, inlaid door. THEN she called to complain, in the middle of the night, that she could not secure her belongings because there wasn't a front door. I had to send someone out to put in a new door, which also required wall repair and a new door frame.
I got a look inside during this fiasco. I can not afford to evict her. She has done at least 80k of damage to the house. I have to completely remodel the kitchen and not simply replace the floor in the main room. The carpet is gone (no clue what she did with it) and there is damage to the sub-floor.
Yes, I could sue her, but she has nothing at all. I am fairly sure she is a prostitute by trade, and you can't garish those kind of wages.
Another.....
Completely destroyed the house while stealing EVERYTHING. Flooring destroyed by urine, I am guessing theirs, I have no idea how long they did not have water. All appliances stolen, all light fixtures stolen, the electrical wiring was also all stolen, including the fuse box. It cost me a small fortune to replace the wiring, as walls had to be torn into. They also destroyed the bricks on the fireplace, I am guessing with an ice pick.
Common section 8 problems I have is bringing in pit bulls (not covered with my insurance), neighbors complaining about fights, drug dealing. They never take care of the yards.
I feel like a sucker every time. I listen to these sob stories and give people a break.
I have had ONE section 8 that was OK. A disabled couple. they are ALWAYS late with their $40 share of rent, but they do pay. They are also keeping the house in good order.
2007-06-13 09:20:12 · answer #1 · answered by Landlord 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because section 8 provides programs for the rent to get paid to the landlord but the tenants have to make sure there doing there part as well with keeping the programs together and updating their info to the programs if this does not happen the programs stop paying the rent or sometime the tenant them selves stop paying and some landlords do not want to have to go through that with the tenants so it better just to pay straight up with a working job
2016-05-19 03:13:51 · answer #2 · answered by darlene 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've had numerous Sec 8 tenants over the years. Sad to say, I only had ONE who was not a genuine problem. I realize that you are not one of them, but I do have to report that my experiences were not good. Late rents, NO rents, property damage, and numerous disturbance calls, just to list a few issues. As soon as it became legal for me to refuse Sec 8 tenants, I stopped accepting them.
2007-06-13 08:55:25 · answer #3 · answered by acermill 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My experiences are good as of now. Yah, it is alittle bit of work to get originally take the voucher, or at least more so for a non- voucher holder. I hear alot of horror stories, but I also hear them about tenants that are non-voucher holders. You can get bad people either way. Alot of it has to do with the screening process. Some owners want rent regardless, then complain about it.
2007-06-13 08:53:54 · answer #4 · answered by bpl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i can tell u a horror storie. section 8 tenant in bushwick, brookyln (bad terrible area) signed for 2 year lease. hadnt paid rent in 8 months. refused to pay rent and gave landlord a lot fo problems. they had a lot of people living in the apartment, and threw dirty diapers and feeces in the hallway bc they lived liek such pigs. when the landlord went up and asked them to clean up their trash the daughter threw a big pot of hot water on him and the whole family laughed at the disrespect. finally the landlord asked for rent (whcich he had yet to recieve in months) the tenants became so enraged that he asked that they had their friend follow him out of the building and cold blooded shoot him in the face. the landlord is dead and those people were disgusting low life deadbeats.
2007-06-13 08:59:32 · answer #5 · answered by spadezgurl22 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋