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Updated about 6 years ago,
Removing a Section 8 tenant the right way?
I am closing on a property next week that is tenant occupied by a section 8 tenant that I will be inheriting.
My plan is to either flip this property or to do some work on it and rent it out for much more than what section 8 is paying with the current tenant. I'm concerned about the current tenant however. She has lived there for 9 years and has 4 kids with 2 infant twins coming home from the hospital shortly.... 6 kids and her living there!
I have met this woman and she is a lunatic. Explosive and even potentially violent. She has expressed to me that she would like to stay and pitched the idea of turning the basement into a 4th bedroom to get more rent from section 8.
I don't want any of that. The rent I would get for a 4 bedroom is still nothing and it wouldn't be smart to turn the basement into a 4th any way. I want her out, point blank and I have the ability to put her out with 60 days notice to section 8. I'm just concerned that when I tell her she needs to leave she is going to go off and during that 60 days trash the house.
With the income I'll be receiving from section 8 once I take possession I will still be cash flowing a bit so my current plan is to just let her know that she needs to leave but give her a few months to gracefully do it. I just don't know exactly the right way to go about doing that.
Any ideas?