US government Covid Rental Assistance - yes or no?

[Billy Bob]

Are any Landlords enrolled in the new US government Rental Assistance Program? I read some Landlords do not want to participate with their Tenants because of required financial information/disclosures to the government. Does anyone know why or what info they require from Landlords? 

[Cody L.]

Originally posted by @Account Closed:

Here in Texas they’ll pay anything that’s past due and up to the next three months. It’s all one lump sum and from what I can tell the only stipulation is that you can’t evict during the months that have been paid unless it’s for safety or criminal reasons and then you have to pAy the money back.

I’ve qualified for the state program, the program from the city of Houston and harris county, and my usual hopwa grant.  I have 13 months of aid money just sitting there but the landlord won’t take it. It never would have been needed in the first place if he hadn’t made me transfer payment to him in a sketchy way that caused my bank to freeze my account for three weeks. 
after that he just stopped taking money from me, got angry when I tried to have the hopwa program pay him what was at the time only two weeks late, and directed his bank to ban me from doing business or making deposits. 
how here it is almost April and the $455 that I was ready and able to pay him on January 4, as well as she $800 for January has ballooned into $2855...soon to be $3455. 
the frustrating part is that I’ve had the money to pay him each month and still do. He’s retaliating and being petty for no reason. So I’m sure there must be a few landlords out there who are doing the same. 
frankly I think it’s stupid and hypocritical  to complain  for months  about the moratorium and protections for renters and how there’s no relief or financial assistance for landlords, and then when they finally start a program that does just that—-pay the landlords the money they’ve been whining about—to refuse to take it. That just shows that for some landlords it never really was about the money at all it was about the power and the sense of superiority they felt. And they’ll spend all that money to evict otherwise good people, ruining their credit and their futures all for judgements they’ll never collect on, and then find themselves facing vacant units when no one is able to meet their criteria now. 
as for my landlord, he could have had easy money coming in guaranteed for at least 13 months and when it ran out, I’d be making $45,000 a year as a paramedic. And we would never have bothered him. I would have simply deposited the rent every month like usual and we would have never had to interact unless it were an emergency. 
instead, he’s now lost the $3455, has to pay to take me to court for an eviction case he’s going to lose, plus he’s going to have to pay to either settle or fight my lawsuit—and then likely be paying me something. 
I don’t normally believe in such things but Karma does repay people in kind. 

 "and then when they finally start a program that does just that—-pay the landlords the money they’ve been whining about—to refuse to take it."

No LLs I know are whining about not getting government money.  They HAVE 'whined' about their property rights being stripped by the government via eviction bans.  So yeah, if the government is going to defacto seize my property and make me house people on my dime, then they better pay for it.

We've taken the rent money but I'd just assume not.  There is a ton of BS paperwork that my team has had to do to get the rent $.  When we never signed up to have the government has a tenant.  

We entered into a contract with the TENANT.  We provide housing, you pay us each month.  Period.  Some people don't like to deal with the government and their extra work.  And if they don't want to deal with it, that's their damn right.

And not sure why you think he's going to lose his eviction case.  A property owner doesn't HAVE to accept rental assistance to get an eviction.  I sit in on zoom cases ALL THE TIME.  I hear the judge ask if they want to participate in the eviction diversion program.  The LL says "no", the judge says they can come back and get their WRIT in a week.

So if you're betting on winning your case, I hope you have a plan B.