Any helpful tips on getting your property Section 8 ready?

[Iesha Padilla]

My husband and I own a multiplex in El Centro. Hoping to rent to Section 8 voucher holders, but we are still in the process of rehabbing units. Looking for some helpful tips that the HUD website doesn't specify, so that we can implement them while renovating. Any advice would help. Thanks in advance.

[Jennifer Donley]

@Iesha Padilla I echo Greg's advice.

In general, I try to remove anything that could be a maintenance problem down the road.  

If you're looking more for inspection type items, you can find the HUD HQS document online https://www.hud.gov/sites/docu...

But in my experience, each inspector will have his or her own things that they pay attention to so it's hard to prepare entirely. We have municipal occupancy inspections here and the HUD inspections are similar. But we plan to fail both on the first try because it seems inspectors will always find something.

With that in mind, if you can get the inspection done sooner rather than later, I recommend it so that as you're finishing the rehab, you can just add the inspection items to the list and not have to make additional trips.

Good luck!