Posted on 09/09/2012 11:20:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Here's an odd side effect of South Florida's foreclosure crisis: Some immense homes with pools and three-car garages in gated communities are being rented out to unlikely tenants — poor people paying with Section 8 aid.
Among the properties are homes with up to 4,500 square feet of space in private communities with guardhouses and regal names such as "Monarch Lakes" and "Bellagio at Vizcaya."
Some of the owners are teetering on foreclosure and gambling they can earn enough money from the federal housing vouchers to stave off the banks. Others bought the properties cheap in foreclosure auctions and want the guaranteed rental income.
Housing advocates and the government view the turnabout as a win-win for homeowners and the poor, who have access to safer communities and better schools.
But some neighbors are aghast.
After a single mother and her nine children rented a house in the exclusive Isles neighborhood of Coral Springs, the homeowners association adopted an amendment to its governing documents stating: "No Section 8 or government leasing assistance is permitted."
The association is threatening eviction.
Federal law does not expressly outlaw such bans....
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
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There goes the neighborhood.
Of course the one potential good thing is that once these people start moving in next to limousine liberals, they’ll start changing their tune.
I know my brother's in-laws are both scamming the SSDI gravy train. His MIL uses a CPAP machine. They haven't paid their electric bill in ages. She claims they can't be cut off. She seems to be right.
Section 8 has good parts also. I had 20 section 8 units. I restricted each unit for elderly handicapped . All were 1 floor units and were kept in great condition by the Tennant with constant attention from the housing unit.
It was a very pleasant experience for myself ,county,and tenant.
And it introduces the risk that they cannot evict Section 8 tennants if they do not pay AND increases the risk that the property cannot be sold later due to damage or scaring would be buyers away.
They’ll just collect the vouchers for as long as possible and then walk away from the mortgage.
Sure, just wait until those homeowners have to file to get them evicted after they don’t pay their rent for six months and then find out everything including the kitchen sink has been stolen or destroyed. Sorry, no sympathy.
I think you’d be able to tell. :-|
Yep, and the water bill is usually a little bill, but forget and leave one hose running for 24 hours and watch what happens to it!
OMG, that’s got to be one of their tactics. They want people living in ghettos and they haven’t been able to trap the middle class into one yet. OTOH, nasty business like Katrina dispersed enormous ghettos into the rest of the population, as is now happening to Detroit (except there won’t be any urban renewal there). Not sure how that fits in, except as shock troops to invade the civilized enclaves. That makes sense.
Wife and I are both on CPAP. When I was a veteran’s career counselor for the state unemployment office, all 50 states trained in Denver. EVERY hotel room I ever saw of the other vet reps (stop by their room to change or get something after classes) had a CPAP machine in it!!
Tell me about it.
Once, just once, I rented to some low-life cretins. They opened up the water sprinklers in the middle of the winter. The water froze the underground pipes. Spring came. The sink hole in the back yard was the first clue. Then the water bill arrived! Never ever again.
They won't be fancy for long.
Do a drive through. Count the number of lawns that look like they are waiting for a government program and crew to clean them up. This should give you a base number.
There are way too many new and upper middle class neighborhoods in Florida where the overwhelming majortiy of residents are non-white, and, people have no cars (with no public transportation in the area). This Section 8 stuff has been happening a while
This begs my next question; who takes care of the yard work? I know in my neighborhood, if you have so much as a weed in your lawn, stand by your mailbox for a polite but stern letter from the HOA telling you to square your lawn away. I can't quite picture some welfare momma with her nine children pushing a lawn mower once a week. That looks too much like work.
I'm sure the lawns look like crap and the neighbors can go pound sand.
Why would you want to live in the PI? I hope you’re joking ‘cause that country is one of the most dysfunctional on earth, worse than Mexico. Anybody who has any brains/talent in the PI tries to leave.
Section 8 = ghetto
Remember! Harlem was built as LUXURY housing before a long- forgotten crash!
Okay, any idea what Singapore is like? I was stationed in Korea, twice, never been to the Philippines.
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