Podcast 223: Section 8 Simplified with Sara McGraw-Abdall

Sara McGraw-Abdall of the Landlord Liaisons will be guiding us through Section 8 and answering all of your questions.

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Show Notes:

00:00 – 00:50 Brief Summary of today’s podcast.
00:51 – 2:33 Eric Worral opens up the podcast with today’s topic which is all about section 8 and today’s guest Sara McGraw-Abdalla.
2:34 – 3:19 Sara is a property manager for 10 years and she is from Virginia and moved to Phoenix, Arizona and start working with section 8 landlords.
3:20 – 4:08 Sara talks about her business and how she helps section 8 landlords.
4:09 – 6:33 What is tenant Screening from the Landlord’s responsibilities as to pertains to section 8? Also, section 8 tenant is pretty much the same to non section 8 tenant. They only differ in how they pay their rent.
6:34 – 8:17 What is the Housing Quality Standards for section 8?
8:18 – 9:09 How does Housing Authority works with HUD?
9:10 – 10:25 Is Collecting Security Deposit the Landlord’s responsibility?
10:26 – 11:29 How does terms of lease works?
11:30 – 12:56 How to raise the rent?
12:57 – 13:37 How does voucher works?
13:38 – 14:07 Who is responsible for the security deposit? Is it the tenant and not the housing authority?
14:08 – 14:59 What is tenant portion of the rent?
15:00 – 17:29 How to notify Housing Authority for the changes?
17:30 – 18:29 Moving out
18:30 – 21:29 Who is eligible to be on section 8?
21:30 – 23:36 After how many months will the landlord get the payment from section 8?
23:37 – 24:04 ESA on section 8?
24:05 – 26:03 Sara talks about her website, landlord liaison. She talks about you can learn to expand your portfolio using government money
26:04 – 27:58 Evictions on section 8?
27:59 – 31:06 What are the agreements between landlord and housing authority? And lease between landlord and tenant?

Resources Mentioned:

https://www.facebook.com/tenantscreening/videos/2177732195773462/

 

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