Not to mention, if you make it nice then some of the people with housing vouchers/subsidies are attracted as well. 2.

Section 8 vouchers are hard to get right now, so most section 8 tenants will follow the rules in order to keep their voucher valid.

@Christina R. downtown the rents are cheaper than Mike mentioned, but most of those tenants have section 8 vouchers (if you want to deal with that) and they only live there because they have to.

I was talking to my carpet cleaner yesterday and learned that the local housing authority has asked him to drop his cleaning fee by $40 per house because they are broke.Then he tells me that the HA owes him $4,000 for cleaning and repairs that he did, billed for, and they haven't paid him yet.He asked around and discovered that they haven't paid any of their venders.They told him that they will pay him now because they took out an $80,000 loan so they can pay off their venders.I know that they are still issuing vouchers because I had 3 brand new Section 8 tenants call me just this week.

Section 8 is a voucher program that pays a portion of the tenants rent.

It seems a lot of people have been burned by a bad tenant or don't fully understand how voucher tenants are placed. 

Hello everyone, I recently had a potential tenant ask me about an emergency housing voucher and if I work with this program.

or is better to find another tenant who has the voucher for $800?

Housing choice voucher (HCV) is a federal program (HUD) administered at the local level by the city or county housing authority...section 8 is just 1 HCV program.

If you only have one building, and one tenant skips a meeting or a form and loses the voucher, you could be in real trouble when you have to evict.