[jbarkley]

I used to run a very large apartment complex that was trying to get rid of the last of it's Section 8 tenants. What a pain in the rear they were. We had one family that paid less than $100 for a $900 apartment and the kids would punch holes in all the doors, holes in the walls, tear up and destroy the carpet, cabinets, and practically everything else and the withhold their portion of the rent and we couldn't get the government portion until WE fixed the apartment. This happened over and over again for years.

The kids from this same family almost burnt their building up because she left the kids at home and they were playing with matches. We still couldn't get them out even after all that. The court looked after the tenants and let the landlords twist in the wind, backed up entirely by the state.

[goldstategop]

DUH. If people don't really own the place in which they live, they will never take good care of it. Its a lesson as old as human nature and one lost on our liberal friends. Living off the government's generosity has never made people feel better about themselves.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[AppyPappy]

One word: snakes. They will move post-haste

[alice_in_bubbaland]

We have owned a two family in NJ for the past 20 years. We will not get involved with section 8 rentals. That said, we have spent the past two months fixing up both apartments, painting, cleaning, refinishing kitchen cabinets (after the idiot tennant painted beautiful solid wood cabinets and lost half the original hardware) We also had to rent a 20 yard dumpster to get rid of junk!

I guess if some tennants don't own it, they don't care if it's trashed or not!!! We now have (so far) clean tennants who pay the rent on time and hopefully they will appreciate our hard work.