Want To Attract Sec 8
I have a 3 bedroom sec 8 house in one county. The tenants are great! Just finished getting a 4 bedroom house ready to rent in another larger county. The area is better. I put the house on the Sec 8 landlord list at a reasonable rent but have had no phone calls in a 10 days. I beginning to think it is harder to rent a 4 bedroom to sec. 8. Do less people qualify for 4 bedroom houses? In the other county, the phone rang off the hook...
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Could be the county. Each office is run different. One may be run great the other not so great. Why are you doing sec 8? Why not rent to a more up scale renter? Higher rent rates and less problems.
Just wondering?
J[ Edited by JamesStreet on Date 09/29/2007 ]
I like section 8 because the check just comes in the mail. We are actually getting above average rent for that neighborhood. And these tenants are so grateful to be in a decent house in a decent neighborhood. Other tenants that pay themselves act like they are paying too much and always seem to need something replaced. I realize that I have really good Sec 8 tenants. I will very carefully screen sec 8 tenants for house #3.
Also my sec 8 tenants get a heat and water subsidy. Those utilities are in their names, but I check up on them. Just recently the city came and put in extra insulation, wrapped the water heater and generally winterized the house.
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