A Good Question (Section 8)
Yes, I could call the housing office, but this is faster and besides they're closed now.
If you're property is a section 8 rental, and well, you have a vacancy for a month or even two, can you find a non-section 8 tenant?
Basically once your rental is for section 8, are you restricted to only section 8 tenants? Would you have to withdrawl from the program?
JB
In Ohio, Metro, or section 8 puts me on their list as a landlord who accepts therir program. Currently I have 3 tenants who are metro and 29 who aren't ( 1 vacancy). I own the house or unit, I may rent to whomever I please. But... that's Ohio.
Good Luck,
Shawn(OH)
Is it a federally funded program? If so, I would think that if Ohio can do, so can Alaska (and florida too )
JB
[addsig]
You are not committed to taking a Section 8 tenant. We advertise our rentals in the paper and include "Section 8 welcome". When you list your home with the section 8 office, you are not committing to renting only to section 8 tenants, just that you WILL rent to them. If you pick a tenant with a voucher, you will sign the "intent to rent" form, they turn it in to their counselor and you will get a call from the inspector. They come out and inspect the property and give you a list of things that will need to be addressed before you will be allowed to rent to a Section 8 voucher family. You still at that point have the option of saying no go if you dont want to remedy what's on the list. The inspectors in my area are very very stringent and VERY thorough. In our most recent dealings with them we had things fail like water coming out of dishwasher vent, handrail that didn't extend full length of stairway (missed by 1 1/2 steps, that is the way the house was built, handrail could be grasped when standing at bottom of stairs, but that wasnt good enough), slightly loose toilet (inspector almost kicked it off the drain, if it wasnt loose before it definately was loose afterwards), a very small piece of broken plastic track on a window (nothing a Dremel couldnt cure) and a small leak at the washing machine connection. Nothing major but they sure dont overlook anything.
So the answer is no, you are not committed or restricted in any way by listing your rental with the housing office.
You can rent a section 8 house to anyone whether they are on section 8 or not.