I have three renters getting Covid relief rent and power payments from the government. The process has been insane. It’s as if someone set up a committee to find the most complicated, obtuse, illogical way of doing things. The payments are never made on the same date. I have no idea if the payments will be made. DCF, the organization handling the process, can’t tell me which payments are for what months. There is no way to change anything, and the phone service is some foreign contractor who can’t communicate your question to DCF until it is 15 days old. In other words, if anyone from DCF has even opened the file I can’t send them a question about anything for fifteen days. On top of that, it’s voice over IP and the connections are often so bad I have to hang up and spend another hour on hold to see if I can talk to someone else with a better microphone or connection. If you ask someone to please use their phone instead of their headset, they often just hang up. It’s obvious some of the phone people are using a headset they bought themselves and that doesn’t match well with their phone. Often you hear things in the background like chickens, a rooster, small children or someone tuning a motorbike. It’s absolute hell to deal with.
Time to get rid of those tenants.
I sympathize. I have one renter who is having his rent paid by a diabetes foundation. There was very little paperwork needed by the tenant but a ton by me. It does come before the first of the month, and is much more dependable than the tenant was before. I have no idea, however when it will stop.
Both of my brothers have investment properties. Your story is reminiscent of the numerous stories they have shared. Nope, I have never been motivated to get into this arena of investing money and then depending on people to play square.