No landlord should accept this rental voucher. They are very misleading. Per the lease they required that I give the tenant the rent is due on the 1st of the month. FHEPS sent me 4 different checks throughout the month and the full rent wasn’t paid until almost the end of every month. I am hoping to evict the tenant as soon as possible.
I met a woman who was in shelter with her young child. She seemed very sincere and trusting. She had the NYC FHEPS voucher, and I decided to rent to her accepting the NYC FHEPS voucher. In less than a month of living in my rental property she trashed the apartment. She eventually abandon the apartment and there was drug paraphernalia left all over the apartment. As a landlord I do not recommend any landlord accepting a tenant who has the NYC FHEPS voucher. I did some research and found out they are approved for this voucher because of domestic violence, or they were previously evicted, or they are not making enough income to pay the actual rent. If you want headaches then accept a tenant who has the NYC FHEPS voucher.
My tenant had the FHEPS voucher and after 7 months they stop paying rent. They failed to honor the lease. I had to do a lot of digging and research to find out why they didn’t pay the rent. They stop paying the rent because the tenant public assistance got closed. It didn’t make any sense that FHEPS is linked to the tenant public assistance case. It took me a year to evict the tenant because judges in housing court don’t do their job when it comes to evicting a tenant who hasn’t paid rent. I would never rent to another person with FHEPS. I’d rather my property sit empty, and not make the rental income. Its not worth the stress. Peter
I live in a 2 family house and I rented my first floor to a tenant who had fheps. I needed the rental income to help me pay my mortgage. fheps pays you by mailing you a check and its different checks you get throughout the month. Was hard to track payments and then they stop sending me checks altogether. I am still trying to evict the tenant and its a nightmare.
FHEPS stop paying rent after a year. During the year they didn’t pay it correctly. I got different checks every month and the amounts didn’t add up to the amount of the rent. You can’t charge late fees but the rent is late every month. My advice to any landlord is to not accept any person who wants to rent your property using the FHEPS program. Joseph
I had a NYC FHEPS tenant. The rent was paid for the first year. After the first year I didn’t receive any rent and I had to evict the tenant. The eviction took 3 months. It was a stressful experience. Anonymous
I am a retired veteran. I live in my 2 family home by myself. I needed extra income so I decided to rent out the apartment space in my home. I rented to a tenant who had the nyc fheps voucher. They paid the rent monthly with different check amounts so it was confusing to track. After 8 months I didn’t receive any rent from nyc fheps. I am still in the process of trying to evict the tenant. No landlord should ever except this program.
Long story short. I rented to a tenant who had the FHEPS voucher. After 8 months FHEPS stop paying the rent. Had to hire an attorney to evict the tenant. It was not a pleasant experience. Brian
I accepted a tenant who has the NYC FHEPS rental voucher. They lured me to accept this tenant by paying me 4 months of the rent up front and I got a bonus check of $4300. After the 4 months is where the problems started. I was never told I wouldn’t receive the rent in full on the 1st or even before the 5th of the month. I got different checks for different amounts and the rent was paid by the end of the month. The way they pay the rent causes me to be late on certain bills. DO NOT accept this program if you only have 1 or 2 rental properties and need the rent to pay your mortgage. You will be in a world of trouble. Anonymous.
I rented to a FHEPS tenant and they are still in my property. If I could go back in time I would have never rented to a tenant with FHEPS. I was never told that the rent would be paid with different checks throughout the month. This is causing me to be late on my mortgage every month. NEVER rent to a FHEPS tenant and its not because of the tenant it is because the FHEPS program doesn’t comply in paying the rent on time. D. Williams
I accepted a tenant who had the FHEPS voucher. It seemed legit because I got the first 3 months rent up front and a bonus check. Thought FHEPS would be paying the rent for the tenant for the remainder of the lease. Totally stop receiving the rent after 9 months, and never got the rent in full on the 1st of the month. I lucked out because the tenant voluntarily left so I didn’t have to deal with the gruesome NYC eviction process. Stick the basics as a landlord. Get a tenant with good credit, and good employment.
NYC housing courts are heavily biased toward the tenant. I discovered this long ago as a landlord. It is an extremely lengthy difficult and expensive process to evict bad tenants, even those who do not pay rent for months. For this reason NYC landlords insist on good credit and some of my fellow NYC landlords have become obsessed with perfect 700+ credit scores for would be tenants. Landlords relying on one or a handful of tenants to pay mortgages can run into serious financial trouble fast if a tenant stops paying rent. This in itself has perpetuated the homeless crisis in NYC. Landlords do not want to take the chance on ‘voucher’ tenants who do not work and have terrible credit. Programs like FEHPS have proven not to pay rent on time and stop paying the rent for many months. These voucher programs are contributing to the cycle of evictions and homelessness. D. Feeney
Long story short. I thought I was helping low income individuals by accepting a tenant who had FHEPS but it was a bad decision to take on a tenant with the FHEPS program. They paid me the first 4 months rent up front but after that it was awful. I received different checks throughout the month for different amounts and it was in complete violation of the lease that FHEPS asked me to give to the tenant. This program does not pay the rent on time and I mean NEVER! M. Sanders
I rented to a tenant who had NYC FHEPS. What NYC FHEPS doesn’t tell you is that they never pay the rent on the 1st of the month or even by the 15th of the month. This voucher program should be banned. They ask me to give the tenant a one year lease clearly stating rent is due on the 1st. NYC FHEPS sends 2 different checks to pay the rent and one check is sent in the end of the month. I had to evict my tenant because NYC FHEPS stop paying the rent. No landlord should accept this program. Anonymous
I rented to a family who had the NYC FHEPS rental voucher. They paid the rent fine for 9 months and then I stopped receiving the rent checks. There was zero communication with me informing me that the rental checks would stop. I found out the tenant didn’t recertify whatever that means and they immediately stopped paying the rent. They told me to give this tenant a 2 year lease but they didn’t honor the lease and they were responsible for paying the rent not the tenant. After 8 months I received the back rent but by that time my property was in foreclosure. No landlord should accept the NYC FHEPS rental voucher. It is not discrimination against low income individuals. Its about making a smart business decision. NYC FHEPS doesn’t pay the rent on time, and they look for any reason to stop paying the rent.
Landlords don’t know a lot about the NYC FHEPS rental voucher. What landlords don’t know is that NYC FHEPS never pays the rent before the 5th of the month. NYC FHEPS breaks the rental payments up and send some of the rent in the beginning of the month and some of the rent in end of the month. A landlord who accepts NYC FHEPS will receive rent late every month!