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Toledo's Lucas County Metropolitan Housing Authority...LMHA which administers the Section 8 program seems to have had a difficult 2016 and 2017 doesn't seem much better.I've been renting to Section 8 for seven years now, I still have my original tenant in fact, and normally I find great satisfaction in renting to good tenants and working with the bureaucracy that comes with a government program...I had 10 properties rented section 8 at one point and have slowly prioritized standard rentals over the program and now am seeing blatant issues with their operations causing me to move away from considering their tenants.Delays in the program: We used to have 5 business day's delay for new-tenant vouchers to be reviewed and processed for inspection but have been going weeks before we hear anything.

I'm very surprised that the government has no regulation on this!

You couldn't pay me enough to do section 8, WAY too much work and BS with government people (who are hired idiots that have no clue).

Well....should you invest in a city where the people elected a woman with foreclosures, liens, judgements, garnishments, ethical violations from the state ethics board,  misused a city credit card, went three years arrears on her federal taxes all while yelling for other people to pay "  their fair share, " left skeletonized dead bodies hanging over Canal St for months on end covered only by a tarp until the wind blew it off to reveal to our horror her blatant disrespect for human dignity?

If they're vacant I often go peak in the windows.Some like Treasury auctions from IRS, DEA, federal agencies, they'll have open houses for a couple of days before the auction and sometimes the auction is held at or even inside the home.

As noted above, an Irrevocable Trust is used at times to get around the Federal Estate Tax legally, which is currently only applicable on Estates valued over 12 million dollars.

I imagine it is all just on for now especially since all government backed loan defaults are a full stop too. 

The focus of government policy (regardless of how local) should be on addressing fundamental friction.

I am happy to talk smart contracts, governance and funding though.