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Old 04-25-2017, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Boise, ID
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Yes, On January 1 , 2014 SB745 went into effect. The revision required all property owners (prior it was only those with 5 or more units) to install, test and maintain smoke detectors. Landlords can no longer place battery replacement on the shoulders of tenants. You are also required to test those smoke detectors once a year and maintain a log of all test and maintenance performed. This change occurred over 3 years ago.
This thread has gone off topic a bit, but I just wanted to mention that SB745 is a California law, not a federal law. So you can't blame people from across the entire country for not complying with it.

Yes, landlords should be checking them, because many tenants are dumb enough to take them down and put them in a drawer just because they went off once when they burned something on the stove. But a landlord is not required to comply with the law in another state. Maybe the OP is in California, but if so, I never saw that mentioned.
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Old 04-25-2017, 03:52 PM
 
Location: Formerly Pleasanton Ca, now in Marietta Ga
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Yep. The common area electricity is like $90 a month. This cover the laundry room which both washer and dryer are all electric.

Then there is water, sewer and refuse. Water covers 4 units. So yeah. it gets up there.
Ah!
You original post seemed to imply that tenant had their own washer and dryer and it was $375 for just them.
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Old 04-25-2017, 05:45 PM
 
Location: My beloved Bluegrass
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most anti sec 8 folk places would not pass a inspection that is basic saftey and health on a unit,
Could be, but I'll never know. If ever the day comes that some bright idea fairy manages to pass a bill that owners must pass those inspections, like the current one in committee from that NY house member, I will sell every piece of rental property I have.
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Old 04-25-2017, 06:00 PM
 
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Could be, but I'll never know. If ever the day comes that some bright idea fairy manages to pass a bill that owners must pass those inspections, like the current one in committee from that NY house member, I will sell every piece of rental property I have.
like i said we only had a couple bad ones, mostly good tenets on our end, but ours are all elderly of disabled in some way and they take good care of the apt. but the few bad ones were letting their pedo bf stay. or friends stay. and we called sec 8 sec 8 showed up and caught them, they also got busted for fraud . and one trashed the place in a drunk fit. but the so called worker tenet that slipped past our review have done more damage, maybe we are lucky
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Old 04-25-2017, 06:21 PM
 
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From experience I know that there are good section 8 tenants but there are too few of them.

On the other hand I also know there are good and very bad section 8 tenants as well as section 8 owners who scam the system and section 8 itself is a government entity with their own problems.

Just the simple thing that section 8 only checks on certain things on a background check and only for the last 3 years and doesn't allow last month rent to be charged is a bad thing.
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Old 04-27-2017, 04:49 PM
 
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Where will ambition get someone without money? Like my ambition was to become a lawyer but I couldn't afford law school.
A good friend of mine couldnt afford law school either. He was dirt poor. Didnt stop him. Worked 2 jobs, got great grades and scholarships.

Difference between him and you is that he doesnt have the word CAN'T in his vocabulary. He never said what he couldnt do. He saw what he wanted and he went for it, never had an excuse ever.

Unlike you.
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Old 04-27-2017, 07:07 PM
 
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A good friend of mine couldnt afford law school either. He was dirt poor. Didnt stop him. Worked 2 jobs, got great grades and scholarships.

Difference between him and you is that he doesnt have the word CAN'T in his vocabulary. He never said what he couldnt do. He saw what he wanted and he went for it, never had an excuse ever.

Unlike you.

I had not heard of law school scholarships at the time I was an undergraduate - I thought scholarships were just for undergraduates.
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Old 04-27-2017, 07:17 PM
 
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I recently looked at a new apartment for my mother that is on section 8 like i said before. The ll says they are open to renting to section 8 they did it in the past it's just a pain for paperwork "and they make us fix things that i wouldn't have to with working people"

He said the last issue we had was for a kitchen gfi outlet that was not working it failed section 8 inspection for it. He said for a regular working tenant he wouldn't have to fix that

Wow. And again it was another bathroom with paint peeling in the tub old as heck kitchen with a mini stove that looked 40 years old.

I left thinking good luck renting that out to working people at full market value.

Most landlords buy cheap property usually foreclosed or needs heavy renovating and turn into rentals...it's no secret. The crazy thing is these people want full market value for subpar places regardless of section 8 or not.
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Old 04-27-2017, 07:25 PM
 
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From experience I know that there are good section 8 tenants but there are too few of them.

On the other hand I also know there are good and very bad section 8 tenants as well as section 8 owners who scam the system and section 8 itself is a government entity with their own problems.

Just the simple thing that section 8 only checks on certain things on a background check and only for the last 3 years and doesn't allow last month rent to be charged is a bad thing.

There are about 10 million people on section 8 i doubt you know about all of them when only dealt with a hand full of people who pay with section 8. I meet far more people that are problems that work. Usually people on section 8 are elderly or disabled. The place my mother rents now has neighbors that work and have criminal backgrounds and that's why i'm helping her find a new place. They also smoke pot almost every night, slam doors so hard and threatened both of us because we didn't like when they let their pit bull run off the leash. The dog ran up to us in the middle of the night when we had a family get together. They never appologized about the dog at all. They harassed us and threatened us saying "if you don't like it you can get the f out"

That's how working people...those working people act I work and i don't have any criminal history and i don't act like that.
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Old 04-27-2017, 08:48 PM
 
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I had not heard of law school scholarships at the time I was an undergraduate - I thought scholarships were just for undergraduates.
Now that you know, I'm sure that will make allllll the difference. Yawn.
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