PSA: Never rent your house out via section 8

[Jodell88]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1f8_1375594134

Holy Crap! What a mess.

 

[tfinch2]

Is this the same video as the guy grilling the steak?

 

[Anubis]

Is this the same video as the guy grilling the steak?

no

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Poor people should not be receiving housing.

 

[Patranus]

I think this falls into the category of 'no shit'.

 

[ensign_lee]

So much scrolling text in that video. Ugh.

 

[Leros]

Are you legally obligated to rent to section 8? Is there a way to say no?

 

[Anubis]

im curious how long it took to f up the floor like that

 

[DrPizza]

OMG! I jumped ahead in the video, past the text, and saw the ceiling. Whoa! That looks just like the kitchen ceiling that prior to renting out my house, the kitchen ceiling was *brand new* (following a remodeling job). Not only was it an unreported leak, but the leak was caused by the tenant replacing a good shower head with a $9.99 Big Lots bargain shower head on a hose, made of plastic. They cracked the plastic when installing it, and about 1/3 of the water during a shower went sideways out of the shower instead of into the bathtub.

Except for the floor damage, that guy's got nothing on my tenant. Three broken doors - two frames, and one, the antique beveled glass was shattered out of it, holes in walls, bathroom flooring ripped up by a dog, broken windows, etc.


Edit: but I didn't rent to section 8. I rented to a divorced nurse and her children. I'm sure there are people getting section 8 housing who are good tenants, just as well as I'm sure there are people not getting assistance who are horrible tenants.

 

[Aikouka]

Ugh, southern people... beaucoup is pronounced bow-coo not boo-coo.

That looks freaking awful though. :\

 

[TerryMathews]

This is just another example that proves my theorem: people don't give a shit when it's someone else's money.

 

[weadjust]

Are you legally obligated to rent to section 8? Is there a way to say no?

The owner/landlord has to sign up and be approved to be a part of the Section 8 program. I have rental property and people ask me if I will sign up a house they are wanting to rent. I just say no I have enough gov't in my life and I am not going to sign up for more.

 

[mmntech]

As my grandma always used to say, just because you're poor doesn't mean you have to be a slob too. Sound advice that too few take to heart. Nobody has pride in themselves anymore.

This is just another example that proves my theorem: people don't give a shit when it's someone else's money.

Or someone else's property. When I cleaned rental cars, some used to come back in terribly sorry states. Stuffed with garbage (sometimes rotting food), pet hair, spilled food and drinks, cigarette smoke, gum. Smoke and pet hair were the worst. A) you never get it all out, and B) a lot of people are sensitive to them. We'd tell people not to do it but they didn't it anyway, then would through up a stink if we made them pay the cleaning fines, which would get us in trouble from head office for providing "bad customer service". When you're one guy armed with a damp rag and a shop vac, it becomes a very time consuming drudge tackling other people's slovenly behaviour. This is why I'm one of the few people who will leave a hotel or rental car spotless when I leave.

 

[QueBert]

This is just another example that proves my theorem: people don't give a shit when it's someone else's money.

plenty of people don't give a shit when it's their own money either. rich or poor, slobs will be slobs.

 

[TerryMathews]

The owner/landlord has to sign up and be approved to be a part of the Section 8 program. I have rental property and people ask me if I will sign up a house they are wanting to rent. I just say no I have enough gov't in my life and I am not going to sign up for more.

The way things are moving, we might get to a point where refusing to sign your rental up for section 8 is racial discrimination according to HUD.

Don't think so? In my area, a decision was just handed down that refusing to allow bus stops in an affluent area was racial discrimination. Keep in mind, this was a city with NO bus stops.

 

[Balt]

Ugh, disgusting.

It's hypocritical for him to complain about welfare though, since he basically applied to receive it himself. No one forced him to accept a section 8 voucher.

 

[kaerflog]

I hope you guys don't jump on this guy for renting his house to section 8.
I watched the entire video and it went like this:
- Bought the house at its peak for $220K.
- When bubble came and while everyone put there houses on foreclosure, his family continue to live there.
- He finally had to move out because the neighborhood got so bad. 2 murders, numerous break-ins.
My thinking is that since the neighbor is so bad now, its hard to get it rented so he signed up for section 8.
I guess now he can put that house up for foreclosure. There really is no other choice.

 

[kaerflog]

Ugh, disgusting.

It's hypocritical for him to complain about welfare though, since he basically applied to receive it himself. No one forced him to accept a section 8 voucher.

If you watched the entire video, that neighborhood was in the gutter. Probably really hard to rent it out to normal folks.

 

[zanejohnson]

we've been doing the section 8 rent property thing for over 20 years now........ it's actually a fucking gold mine.

 

[Codewiz]

Ugh, disgusting.

It's hypocritical for him to complain about welfare though, since he basically applied to receive it himself. No one forced him to accept a section 8 voucher.

And there are tons of slobs and hoarders that have done far worse to rental properties. Just watch Hoarding: Buried Alive

 

[alkemyst]

Are you legally obligated to rent to section 8? Is there a way to say no?

no, however; in this area it's probably more or less required if you want to get your property rented.

Most won't go Section 8 if they can find normal renters unless the Section 8 rent is significantly higher.

 

[SZLiao214]

Anyone ever think that the folks on all this government assistance live better than a lot of us full time working people?

 

[DCal430]

I 100% support section 8/housing vouchers. But we should be building section 8 multifamily projects AWAY from the rest of society. We should be building them in isolated areas, with their own market, and basic stores they would need. People in these projects can work in these stores.

I would say a good 10 miles from any major population area boundaries would be good. This way we can provide housing for them, but keep the crime they bring away from the rest of us.

 

[Blackjack200]

I 100% support section 8/housing vouchers. But we should be building section 8 multifamily projects AWAY from the rest of society. We should be building them in isolated areas, with their own market, and basic stores they would need. People in these projects can work in these stores.

I would say a good 5 to 10 miles from any major population area would be good. This way we can provide housing for them, but keep the crime they bring away from the rest of us.

I can't figure out if this is an excellent troll or you're just completely ignorant.

Section 8 was created to reduce the concentration of poverty. The idea was that you give a poor family a voucher so they can live in a middle class area and they will have a better chance of escaping poverty.

 

[alkemyst]

I can't figure out if this is an excellent troll or you're just completely ignorant.

Section 8 was created to reduce the concentration of poverty. The idea was that you give a poor family a voucher so they can live in a middle class area and they will have a better chance of escaping poverty.

He is also neglecting not all jobs needed would be skill-less. Skilled labor is hard to find among section 8'ers.