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Fernando Pena What to do with home tenant destroyed?
29 July 2018 | 11 replies

We have a home in Mount Pocono, PA that is around 2400 sq ft, 3 bedroom, 2.5 baths. Tenants lived in there for about 14 years before moving out last month. The rent it was bringing in was $1450 per month. Unfortunatel...

Clark Coffey Ideas to better filter potential tenants needed!
1 March 2021 | 9 replies

Hello all, I'm so grateful I found this forum and I appreciate everyone's advice. You've all been so helpful so far.
It seems no matter how much I reiterate my application criteria in my ads and in my communications ...

Lance H. This girl should run our education system!
4 September 2010 | 2 replies

So I was browsing on "another" forum and saw this posted. Admittedly, it gave me a glimmer of hope for this country's future.

Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech

by Erica Goldson

Here I...

Account Closed New 'Kidless' Tenants Forged Lease to get their Kids out of LA Protective Services
22 April 2015 | 14 replies

Young (20ish) couple presented as working 'wife' making 3x the 2-bedroom rent monthly, and non-working ucla grad student 'husband', recently relocated from midwest, and with no children. Employment checked out so I ac...

Jeffrey Bailey What to do with 80 year old tenant paying 1/2 market rate
1 October 2014 | 27 replies

I am looking to purchase a duplex as our first rental property. One of the units is currently rented by an 80 year old woman that has lived there almost 40 years. She's currently paying less than half the market rate...

Mehran K. "What If" Section 8 Were No More
3 August 2017 | 173 replies

Hey there community!

I'm closing on a property tomorrow and I'll be inheriting a Section 8 tenant. I always like to think about possible "What If" scenarios and it's got me thinking. I ponder, how would it af...

Nick James Section 8 not honoring original agreement
8 June 2021 | 22 replies

Hey BP,I recently renovated a 3 bedroom unit in my East Oakland Duplex and put it up for rent. I decided to accept section 8 applications and ended up selecting a single mom who lives with her 12 year old daughter. Sh...

Drew Denham Tenant wants to pay cash and get receipt
21 April 2014 | 39 replies

Pros? Cons?

Matt Bailey 3 times income to rent for section 8/vouchers?
11 January 2024 | 17 replies

I've read you should require 3 times the income for your rental price.Do you apply this to section 8/HCV?Or do you submit each application and see what the government will pay you and go from there?If their voucher co...