Nosmo King
Gold Member
Section Eight provides that the rentals are decent, safe and sanitary. The Housing quality Standards (HQS) are quite broadly written and easily complied with. Section Eight pays off like an ATM every month for you landlords. Never late, never a bounced check. Section Eight provides an annual inspection of your properties. Do you inspect your rentals regularly?Section 8. Don't get me started. I had an inspection one year and they found some things. We fixed them, at great cost. The tenant was no better off because we had grates over the tiny openings in the crawlspace. But OK.In every case, I mean 100% of the time, when I inspect a Section Eight unit, the problems are minor (faulty smoke detector. fix? $1.79 and a new 9 volt battery) When I inspect non Section Eight properties, I find fuel oil tanks improperly installed (one had no provision to fill the tank, another had no exterior vent) I find foundations that have collapsed (in one case, the landlord simply placed the stones back in the void without mortar and shimmed the sill with paint stirring sticks and asphalt shingles)
The government programs provide basic guidelines and regulations. municipal building codes generally don't. The HUD properties are inspected annually. I can only inspect after a building permit has been issued.
Of course that's what you think... you feed off the public. You're a public sector parasite. I've dealt with your kind... replacing a six-foot privacy fence at one of my rentals becomes a three-month Odyssey complete with fees, fines and government dolts who couldn't make a dime in the private sector lecturing me on servitudes and right-of-ways.
The next year they came back with another laundry list of things that were fine the previous year and hadn't changed at all.
Section 8 drives up costs for landlords and limits choice for tenants. That is one program that can be easily cut.