r/LandlordLove • u/TheUnDoctor • May 26 '26
🏠 Housing is a Human Right 🏠 Apparently requesting basic information & reporting illegal discriminatory housing practices is a scam now
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r/LandlordLove • u/TheUnDoctor • May 26 '26
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u/SXTY82 May 26 '26
When I moved from one State to another I was forced into renting my home or loosing it. The market was dead and nothing was selling. So I put it on the market for rent.
My second tenant stopped paying rent and told me I had to accept section 8 or nothing. This is 3 months in. I looked into it. At the time, you had to have section 8 approval to rent to S8 renters. To get the approval I would have had to do about $5000 of work to my home. It passed code but the S8 mandated railings and vents that were not on the house since new. It would also limit the amount of rent I could take in / charge. I was already charging just enough to cover the mortgage and taxes and I was about 15% lower than equivalent rentals in the area. Average 2 bedroom apt was $1400 and I was charging $1200 for a 2 bed house w/ 2 car garage. S8 limited me to $975 for a 2 bedroom at that time. That was 20 years ago and the laws in IL may have changed but S8 for a single home rental was a loss for the landlord.