All Forum Posts by: Tina Nguyen

Thanks, Joel. I have the case worker's email. Just emailed her the notice letter and described the situation. I really appreciate you taking time to share your thoughts.

Thanks everyone for your words of wisdom. Yes, i am an inexperienced landlord. This tenant was moving to Houston from another state and had no place for her and her teenagers to live in. She begged me to let her move in right after my house passed the inspection. I felt sorry for her and skipped the neccesary steps.

Anyway, I called the Housing, didn't get to talk to the case worker but the operator told me that she didn't see any reason that I couldn't evict this tenant. She would leave the notes to the case worker to call me back.

Yesterday, I came to the house and gave the tenant the 3 days notice letter. She didn't look surprised though, asked me about her deposit and told me that if i filed the eviction, the judge would give her 30 days to move out. I just simply replied that we will see what the judge says and walked away.

I am going to take Joel's advice to try to meet the case worker in person next week.
Thanks again.

It is 4 am but I can't sleep. I've rented one of my properties to a section 8 tenant. It is a nice house in a nice neighborhood. I just spent about $6k to repair the house so I can say that this house is in very good shape. I accepted a section 8 applicant. After passing the inspection from the Housing, I let the tenant move in right away while waiting for the approved contract from the Housing. Big mistake! After two months living in my house, this tenant keeps calling me days, nights, weekends to ask me to clean some trash in the garage, in the back yard that left from my contractors, to show her how to reset the heater, to check why the oven is not as hot as she wants. She is really pissed me off yesterday when I received a message from the Housing stated that it was an emergency request to fix my A/C within 25 hours. I am at the stage that I just want to kick her out to not have to deal with her anymore.

I've received the lease contract from the Housing but I am still waiting for this tenant to sign the contract. She paid me her rent of $200 per month. The housing supposes to pay me the remainder of the rent. I haven't received any payments from the Housing yet because the tenant hasn't given me back the signed contract that need to be submitted to the Housing.

So, can I ask her to move out immediately since there is no contract yet and I haven't received the full rent payment? Do i have to serve an eviction letter?
I really appreciate any feedbacks. Thanks.

Thanks a lot for all of your inputs. I haven't met them yet. I am going to meet them in person at the house tomorrow. Will see if I'd feel more comfortable renting to them. Definitely will call their previous landlords. The credit report doesn't show the evictions. How do I find out these information?

Hi,
This is my first time screening tenant. I use mysmartmove to run credit and criminal check on this applicant. The resullt shows his credit score is less than 500, with several outstanding, unpaid credit cards and crimal report shows he was in probation 10 years ago because of carrying weapon. Should I immediate deny this applicant without running any further reference check? I haven't requested a credit and criminal check on his wife yet. Don't want them to waste more money if I am going to deny them anyway.
Any advice is very appreciated.

Tina.