Section 8 Inspection Failures

[Chan K.]

Hello Everyone,

I have a section 8 questions for the veteran. Apparently, the housing authority in my market (the MA / Massachusetts area) changed the section 8 inspector which based in TN somewhere. The new company seems a bit dry and rude.

In any case, according to the report, I have 5 failures. I think I am willing to repair 4 failures which make sense, but I would like to question and object to 1 failure. This 1 failure seems like a big renovation and required me to hire a contractor to work on the porch ?? (still need clarification). I called them and trying to clarify on the request, but the guy on the phone told me that he has to submit a form and send to the inspector just to have him call me back.. wow.. it is so bad. The prior/old company uses to just nicely go over what need to be fixed in a professional manner. So the failure mentioned that there are water coming to the porch and seem like a leak .. for god sake, it is just a porch and not enclosed, so water/snow are expected to come in. The tenant uses it for storage and I told them to stop using the porch. My rent was no longer offering this as part of the living space.

So my question is what would happen if I they still required me to do the major renovation, and I don't have the resource to do it or it does not make sense? will the tenant vacant or I evict them or the housing authority can still hold me/unit hostage somehow?

Usually, I fixed all the issues in the report in the past for all section 8 tenants. I don't really like this new company, and things that they ask seem unreasonable.

Thanks ahead.