Having trouble collection tenant's portion on Sec 8 rentals

[Mary Jay]

Hi guys,

I have 2 SF properties (one in California and one in Florida) and I am having a hard time collecting the rents from the tenants.

Section 8 pays always on time, obviously, but tenants are not. It started in March or April, when all this moratorium on evictions started.

To be more specific, one tenant paid it for religiously for one year, and the other tenant for few month, and then all this started...

Do you remind your section 8 tenants? Something like: "Hey, section 8 tenant, your rent portion is due in 2 days"

Thank you

[Kyle J.]

@Mary Jay What’s their reason for non-payment and what has been your response for all these months they haven’t been paying their portions? 

You should be charging late fees, serving any appropriate pay or quit notices for past due rent, providing copies of any notices you serve to the tenants to the Housing Authority, reminding the tenants that even in jurisdictions that have/had eviction moratoriums that doesn’t mean they don’t owe rent and that you won’t attempt to collect it, and advise them that when evictions resume (which is likely to be soon) if they force you to pursue that option they are not only risking their tenancy they are also risking their Section 8 voucher.