All Forum Posts by: John Harrison

I believe some of the things they are doing are illegal. just like lowering rents because of the sequester. The law states that Public housing landlords rents can not be capped or lowered because of shortfalls in the funding of the public housing Administrators. Now they can request you VOLUNTAIRLY lower or divert increases in order to help. (There is a reason for this law to lengthy to go into) The hat trick is getting them to capitulate to the law. I am going to try small claims

Mr.Krusiac I uinterstand that the FMR is set at 50% but that is b uilt in once they set the FMR. I am going by their FMR what they set.I am saying the $1000 is the FMR they set and they are paying $200 under the FMR THEY set

When all is said and done . The money that you recieve for rent is SUPPOSE to be comprable to the rent that non section 8 unites are priced at. I had challenged my housing authority because I had wriien over and over for months to get a letter from the Director of HUD and he agrees to that law. He told me if my housing authority was capping rents and reducing rents arbartrarly to report to the regional field office and he gave me a name and number og the person to report to. That person was completely uncooperative and non responsive. I even had to contact me senator to get him to answer. Its like there is nobody that can makle them abide by the law

sorry I am using my tablet 2 posts and I am NOT used to that. But this statutory means everybody has this. And I don't understand if everybody has a utility allowance taking out of the rent they receive everybody's rent received would be Less then comparable non sec 8 rents surrounding

understand what you're saying that they are managed differently. But what they are telling me is that all of the housing authorities in the United States have where there is A gross rent which isFMR and that includes your contract rent plus the rent allowance which together make your FMR.they are telling me that this is statutory. Statutory means that it is done the same all over the United States as set forth by hood

I have a section 8 tenant. The FMR for my neighborhood is approximately $1000 which it turns out is uniform with the other houses around my unit. I am just saying $1000 to round it out and make it simple. The housing authority subtracts approximately $200 dollars from the $1000 and its called it a utility allowance. This drops the rent to $200 less then other comparable units in the neighborhood. I complained and the Housing Authority said that the utility allowance is statutory. I think statutory mean HUD take this allowance from all the landlord's in the United States. What I don't understand is why a lot of places in the United States some section 8 landlords recieve comprable and even I am reading a bit higher rents then surrounding non section 8 rents if they take this fee from everybody. Or are they lying to me about this fee being subtracted from all section 8 landlord's, or are they suppose to set the FMR as gross $200 higher. I cant figure it out please help me if you can!

There is a person that said pay your tenants to leave instead of evicting.I strongly disagree. If Real Estate Agents would help and tell their buyers the importance of not rushing and sticking to the rules then it would get a lot better. All the information you need to know the calaber of a tenant is right there. Even if they dont have great credit,you can ask to see cancled cjhecks or money orders of payment history. or bank statment. If they dont have that ,9 out of 10 its a reason why they dont have. when they show pay stub,call the business through the yellow pages and check to see if its real business. I have skiped on these things trying to get money flow and I have paid more in long run plus it emboldens those typ tenants. Real Estate think they are scaring away customers when they bring this up and I understand but the word is getting out about the nightmares and they will lose more customers that way

To expound on my posted before. A lott of it has to do with the years of no interest rates that we have had. This has caused a lot of people to become landlord's without evening researching the business. So the main thing is that as a whole we have taught tenant how to treat us. If you have 50 to 75 percent of the landlord's out there not checking credit or not knowing how to do evictions or accepting late payments. That's what tenants are going to expect. They can get away with it. Now this is not releasing you from being a good landlord you have to repair things timely. But I learn the hard way about doing favors, taking reduced deposits taking excuses for late payments. Number 1 it doesn't work and number 2 it teaches the tenants that they can treat landlords this way and that's what they do. Now that it is getting harder to buy income property then that will weed out a lot of the landlord's that aren't serious. The ones that are left will be more of the landlord's best up to the script so it should get better

The Top mistake to me is local landlords not comunicating and miscomunicating. If I had a bad tenant and someone called for a reference I would be truthful. I have had 3 exlandlords to lye so they wouldnt have to evict. So now I go by whats on paper. I have had to evict multiple tenents and have not in the past 7 years had another landlord even call me. So tenants know they can mess you over and move on.I am in Raleigh and there are a lot of professional tenants.

Also Landlords not working togeather to standeizes rents and pressure other landlorsd to go by screening protocol. I once tried to get the rental associations and appartment association (2 in the area) but they had no intrest. See most of their Hiarchy are Real Estate Agents and they dont want anybody to know there are problems in renting. They will drive off potential customers

The Top mistake to me is local landlords not comunicating and miscomunicating. If I had a bad tenant and someone called for a reference I would be truthful. I have had 3 exlandlords to lye so they wouldnt have to evict. So now I go by whats on paper. I have had to evict multiple tenents and have not in the past 7 years had another landlord even call me. So tenants know they can mess you over and move on.I am in Raleigh and there are a lot of professional tenants.