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Yes, sorry but section 8 attracts lots of helpless losers. My friend had a few apartments he rented to section 8 he almost had to rebuild the places after he finally got them out. Lots of single moms with kids. Lots of drug dealing for extra money also. Terrible for the neighborhood too.
There are more helpless losers that work and pay their own rent and do everything you describe also.
My friend was in a partnership with another person. He thought section 8 was great at first. They paid the rent every month with out fail. After a year on this program he started having problems with the boyfriends moving in and drug dealing when he went over to repair a toilet flapper. He found lots of people coming in and out and that raised a red flag.
Dude you're making a big deal out of nothing. When I go look over a rental I always have batteries. I started using those detectors with 10 year batteries. I check them yearly and I carry a few extras.
Not sure if it's a CA rule or just in my county, but after a certain date all new tenancies had to have 10-year smoke detector/CO2 batteries.
I have yet to have any problems with my S8 tenants.
I am going through this one .... while I am afflicted with landlorditis there have been times I have actually felt for the landlords.
Many rent serfs are afflicted with landlorditis, which by definition is inflammation of a landlord. And God knows a lot of landlords have inflated egos and senses of entitlement.
Now some years ago I worked with a landlord group trying to slow down galloping regulation, and every landlord had a tenant horror story. (This was in a college town, so the number of tenant horror stories was probably higher than average.) But on average, as the book you cite suggests, there is vast redistribution from tenants to slumlords.
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