All Forum Posts by: Brandon Dubisky

 Just keep in mind what your end goal is with your properties. We personally manage our properties (includes Sec 8 units) because we couldn't find what we felt were responsible property management companies in our area, even though our area seems to be dense in property managers. I've personally found that the learning curve is much shorter as a new investor, if you are willing to put in the work to understand your local laws and tenant/landlord rights yourself and manage your first few properties yourself, before transitioning to a property management company. This would allow you to better understand what you find acceptable while running your RE business. 

Keeping in mind that this advice comes from someone who doesn't necessarily trust property management companies or the quality of their services. 

Brandon, over half of our tenants are on section 8. We manage roughly 125 rental units in southern WI and we love our section 8 tenants. Here in Wisconsin, Section 8 qualifications are quite stingy and require people receiving benefits to be people without criminal records or outstanding evictions. This allows for the people we take in with section 8 vouchers to be very good and mild-mannered people. I highly recommend taking on section 8 tenants because of the fact that there is always guaranteed rent coming from the government. However, if there is a change or something going on with the tenants rent, be sure to contact their case worker immediately. Changes of banking info, mailing addresses or other things like that tend to take a very long time with section 8.