Section 8 Horror Stories

There have been horror stories about floors being destroyed cabinets being pulled off the walls toilets being cracked garbage and filth everywhere and many more people living in the unit than are listed on the lease.

Section 8 horror stories. All you have to do is google section 8 horror stories or similar and the stories are limitless. We had a. It doesn t mean that all section 8 tenants are bad.

Section 8 is a prescription for disaster. I have many stories but this is by far my favorite. I managed a section 8 community in southeast washington d c years back.

There are ways to screen section 8 so you get better results but most new landlords don t do that. Certainly this can happen. 3 4 came out to be horror stories mostly my fault for not screening them appropriately.

Our mission is to provide permanent housing for homeless folks and the vast majority of them have mental issues and drug addictions. So section 8 is not the greatest thing on earth like others are pitching. Almost every landlord has a horror story to share a gruesome annoying or downright disgusting tale that cost them sleep and probably a whole lot of money.

I was working the graveyard shift at the front desk. But in practice it sucks. Another risk of renting to a section 8 tenant is the belief that section 8 tenants are very destructive.

I recommend you google it yourself and read some of the horror stories about the program. In new york section 8 tenants live off an average of about 16 000 a year. I rented to 4 different section 8 tenants.