You Need To Fight For The Right Section 8 Tenants

As a Saint Petersburg property management company, we work with a great deal of Section 8 rentals.  The challenge we always have is some portion of this tenant base is filthy, and they cause a tremendous amount of damage while living in our homes.

We’ve noticed over the years as a St Petersburg property manager, the worst of the worst Section 8 tenant are newer tenants on the program.  We no longer accept anyone who just got on the program, because there is no proof they will be clean and decent tenants

We initially would intentionally forget to have them sign something, so we could visit their current home (the one they were leaving for our home) to see how clean they were.  The challenge was they wouldn’t let us in.  Finally, it dawned on me that we should approach this differently.

Now we have a prospective Section 8 tenant that we tentatively approve, to sign a document that authorizes us to inspect their current home.  We are looking for roach infestation, and look under sinks and vanities, because you can’t hide or clean up quickly for that.  

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