Section 8 rental advice

Hello Brownstoners.

We are considering doing a section 8 rental.

As we have never explored this before, we’d very much appreciate any advice from the forum, constructive, cautionary….any and everything, please, particularly from those with first hand experience.

Thank you.

peryoung

in General Discussion 2 years and 4 months ago

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NewOwner | 2 years and 4 months ago

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We had a S8 tenant several years back and while the experience was fine overall, you do have to be on top of paperwork and processes. Technically a lot of that responsibility falls on the tenant but the landlord definitely needs to support the process.
We would definitely consider renting to a S8 tenant again, even if that means reducing our asking rent to the maximum S8 payment.