There are conditions that must be met.Also, I believe the taxes are higher in Richland County than Lexington County, but I don't like there, so I don't have personal experience with that.

The voucher is the most that Sec8 will pay for that person’s rent regardless of where they rent.  2) The second part of the Sec8 equation is the market rates for specific neighborhood’s and property types (SFR vs apartment, # bedrooms, # baths, utilities included vs paid by tenant, etc).

Quote from @Sharon Bancroft: @Cameron MarmonI had this same situation and my tax accountant filed the change for me ( one time filling) and we now file it on our personal as a disregarded entity.

Another popular option is AgFirst but I personally have had a hard time getting responses from them.

@Micheal Singleton I have the perfect person you should connect with.

Gator most of the risk is on the person providing the earnest money.

With that being said, I personally know several people who've had tenants that stop paying their rent and try to hang around for as long as possible. 

Do you think using lexisnexis would work for skiptracing to find a person's phone number?

CA has more than half of the nations homeless/unsheltered persons. 

But the risk to the seller on this deal is immense you have a guy tying up a property who has no ability to close it and then sell it to whoever will give him money and that person could be nefarious get into title rip rents could give 2 craps about the sellers credit etc etc..