All Forum Posts by: William Price

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.  I added the grown children as tenants and they are all jointly and severally liable.  

I'm getting ready to sign a lease for a property I own and I am faced with a situation I have not encountered before.  It is a Section 8 property and the Housing Assistance Payment Contract (Sec. 8 contract with the govt) has the mom listed as the tenant with her other children and grandchildren listed in a separate section as other members of the household, but not the tenants.

I have a separate lease that I execute in conjunction with the HAP contract and I'm wondering whether I need to keep the tenant the same (only Mom) and list her other members of the household in a separate section or whether I should include her adult children as co-tenants.  

Thanks for any advice!

Thanks for the good idea on picking the tenant with the lowest income to maximize the portion of rent from Sec. 8.  Both of them have vouchers in hand and I will probably refrain from asking them what their current portion of rent is for their current apartment.  

On a separate note, has anyone ever run a credit check on a tenant and had the report come back as unavailable because file was too thin?  I used mysmartmove to run the credit check and on one of the applicants it said it was unavailable because the file was too thin.  The prospective renter is in her late 50s so I wasn't quite sure what to make of it other than maybe she's never had a bank account or credit card.

Hi,

I'm getting ready to rent a duplex to a Section 8 tenant and I have 2 prospective tenants.  They both have vouchers and I wanted to ask them what portion of the rent they are responsible for.  

The rent is $1,800 and in the past my tenants have been responsible for anywhere from $450/month to zero.  I want to pick the tenant who has the highest amount paid for by the government.  Is it legal to ask them how much of the monthly rent they pay on their own?

Thanks for any insight!