It might motivate them to pay.While it's nice getting the guaranteed rent from the government every month, it's depressing to have to deal with these deadbeats that have everything handed to them and still refuse to pay you the money that's due.

Check on local rental market and government regulations thereof.

A government based company would not pay attention to you and allow any benefits is you could not work for a disability because you have no compensation that shows you have been paying them tax money if that is recent enough.  

Everything that government does is done to create a reaction.

Government can ruin the best laid plans.

Hey Jon Klaus I was under the assumption that the agreement between the financial institutions and state governments was going to see results meaning more properties on the market.

No telling what will happen when the artificial job market in DC bottoms out (i.e. inefficient government jobs supported solely by tax payers) and outrageous rents like paying $2,300 for a 650 sq ft 1BR unit are no longer realizable.

I believe BAC's market cap will continue to rise especially if the government agrees on a fiscal cliff deal.

We know that prices rose 8% last year, but the official government inflation number was less than 2%.

HUD has had lease-option agreements where tenants could end up buying a property but no government money can be used toward the credit and I believe that program has died a slow death over the years.Taking government funds as rents and crediting back an equity interest is fraud