Rent and Section 8 Applicants

[Thomas O'Donnell]

If you have your property listed for a certain amount and get section 8 applicants that have vouchers that pay for more than that, if you decide to go with a section 8 tenant can you then raise the rent before they were to move in? Does anyone know how this works? I have section 8 people wanting to apply to my property but I am not familiar with it and I would obviously want to charge more if it is a section 8 tenant. For example, my rental is listed at $1300 water included and one of the section 8 leads says that their voucher is up to $1500 (would obviously need to be verified). Please let me know if you have any answers to this. Thanks!