Section 8 investing means renting property to tenants who hold federal Housing Choice Vouchers, with a substantial portion of the rent paid directly by the government to the landlord.
Log in to followI've been reading the paperwork side of this before I look at any property, and I have three documents in front of me that seem to overlap. There's the voucher itself, there's a H…
I've been building toward the leasing side while I finish licensing, and a small landlord with eight doors asked me to fill three vacant units with voucher holders. He'd been doin…
Housing authority did an annual on a three-unit I manage the maintenance side of. Units 1 and 2 passed. Unit 3 failed on bathroom ventilation, the fan runs but the inspector says…
Closed on a 1920s three unit in a blue collar pocket of a mid-size metro last spring. Purchase was 214k, I'd budgeted 28k of work, and the plan was to place voucher holders in all…
I've got a duplex under contract and a property manager telling me the housing authority inspection is "free and pretty easy." That doesn't square with a landlord I talked to who…
An owner with about 40 doors across a few small buildings asked if I'd take his maintenance calls. Roughly 30 of those units are voucher tenants. He's offering $1,800 a month as a…
Something isn't adding up in what I've read. Every article says the government pays the rent and that's why Section 8 is safe income. Then I read a comment saying the tenant pays…
Two years in on the market-rate side and I still managed to walk into this one, so I'll write it up plainly for anyone as new to the program as I was. I bought a small 3BR in a de…
I've been going back and forth on this for months and I want to see where the room splits. The pitch for vouchers is that the government portion arrives regardless of what happens…
I do documents before I do properties, so when a family member asked me to paper the lease on a voucher tenancy for a small single family he owns, I treated it as a drafting exerc…
Trying to understand the rent side before I understand anything else. My understanding is that there's a published number per bedroom count for an area and the housing authority w…
Annual inspection on one of my rentals is scheduled for next week and I've got a conflict. Options are drive an hour each way and meet the inspector at the door, or leave the key…