Let me see if I have this right...

[theGinsue]

In my case, I rented a condo to Littleton Housing Authority section 8- pretty much a free housing for the 'need.' Well few weeks after they moved in, the 2 tenants were actually 2 families of 9, and ICE was looking for some of them. I had to waste half a day standing there looking like a stupid idiot while the ICE guys went through everyone's ID including mine because I was the owner. They were looking for 1 person, ended up picking up 3 of them.

Sorry you had to go through that. I have a friend and co-worker who had his former family primary residence (they moved to a better home) in the program. I had to go with him to serve as a witness for him. We got to the house and found it was abandoned a week before (no notice) and was totally destroyed. It cost him thousands to get it back to rentable state. The .gov folks didn't cover all of the costs as they claimed thet would.

MB888 - Is there a way to have a limitation of "single-family" in your rental agreement ?

I kind of agree here. I agree that there are lazy F$#* who live off welfare, foodstamps, housing, medicaid, etc.... However there are legit folks out there that do work and just don't make enough and they pay there taxes etc.. and can receive certain government help. Don't get me wrong I am not saying that it's ok for illegal immegrants to just come here and get that stuff BECAUSE IT IS NOT! It is for AMERICANS. U.S. citizens. I have at one point needed Medicaid for my children (before denval420) But I also worked a full time job and paid my bills and taxes by MYSELF. I also have a good friend that has 2 kids is on housing takes care of the place and works 2 jobs. She is AMERICAN. So I feel it's ok if you are AMERICAN and you work.

I totally agree with you. i am all for helping people who are truly in need, what gets me is the people who don't work, have tons of kids to claim disabilities for them, and live their entire lives doing nothing productive or trying to get a job.

One thing that really gets me is New Orleans, they had Katrina, got all the help, trailers to live in, money to fix their homes even when they had no insurance, yet I fly over it 5-6 years later and they have blue tarps covering 30-40% of the roofs in a lot of areas, you drive by and you see a decked out never vehicle with 24in rims and spinners.

I agree with you Pr1ncess & you too Sniper. Some people actually need the help but they are doing everything they can to help themselves. It's those folks I have no problem helping. Everyone else can got in the gutter as far as I'm concerned.

Sniper - you mentioned the devastation caused by Katrina. You may recall that AFTER Katrina, Iowa had severe widespread flooding that created just as much devastation - but most of us never heard word one about that in the news - it was barely covered. Those folks didn't get all of the hand-outs and government help and freebies or all of the people coming to help rebuild like N.O. received. I suppose their racial and socio-economic status didn't warrant such aid.