How is the rental assistance going for you all?

 

It has been taking a bit more time (in wisconsin) but so far I've never had them send it to the residents, thank god. From start of application, to me receiving the check, it's about 2 months minimum.

I'm in Texas, This may sound cruel, but before you judge, know that I've spent countless hours GETTING assistance for my residents for the past two years... we're done!

We haven't pulled ourselves out of the program yet, but we're not ACTIVELY participating anymore. Notices and filings will be done on time now. No more waiting months for rent. If the check gets here on time, so be it, but we're also toying with the idea of non-renewals. This is coming to a close folks... the money won't last forever, so I'm more interested in filling the apartments with those that have the ability to pay.

SAME. I have literally spent hours and helped my residents get 10's of THOUSANDS of dollars. I have one who was a 'nanny' and every three months she reapplies and gets $3500 each time. I am starting to feel like some are just milking the system. I have already non renewed a couple based on their only income being the Cares Funding. I think it's supposed to end here at the end of 2021 so we shall see. My bosses won't just outright deny someone unless there are other issues other than non payment. But I have many other things to do. I have the ability to apply online on behalf of residents and the process is very time consuming.

I had 2 tenants receive the funds that have not paid since June and now I have to start evictions!! It's frustrating to say the least!

 Texas Rent Relief program told us that is fraud because they checked to see if they paid. We called resident and told them the the program will report fraud and start prosecution and they came in and paid real quick so we could report back.

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It is the invoicing for TRR, you set up ACH payments instead of having snail mail checks.

I have collected almost $200,000 from TRR and $170,000 from COA Rent and about $10,000 from Travis County. Let me know if you need help, I can send screen shots to you
 

I applied in May and finally got funding last week. It was approved in May. The idea was good, but execution had been horrible. I hate the program.

Execution is a problem here too, you can sends the needed documents to their portal or by email but it seems the two do not communicate with each other therefore I'm emailing and uploading to their portal multiple times and they say they are mailing the tenants the check because they are not getting the required landlord documents and yet they do have they just can't seem to locate them!

It was becoming a serious issue for me as I was expected to keep paying the mortgage on time

In some counties it’s going amazing. And in other counties, it’s a complete joke. I have three properties in metro Atlanta, Dekalb county, and we’ve barely received anything.

They direct deposit straight into our company account. It has taken 6mo+ in some cases but I finally got a contact and was able to get all my pending residents approved this week actually. I’ve had to step in almost every single time cause residents keep getting the runaround. I’ve collected almost 50K in the last year from them

We have had good luck with it in Birmingham Al. And they deposit directly into our bank account.

They pay quickly in our account. You have to call them daily and have your residents call and make sure all items are in on timely manner. But every city is different . Hate you are having this luck. Not fun at all

There was an article about this a case in RI where the agency would do nothing about it. It is something how they are doing the paperwork

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In colorado the checks come to offixe

We have been having good luck. They do sometimes take a while, but we receive the checks ourselves. They’ll call us when the check is ready and we go get it from their office. And have you let the company know that they paid a tenant who did not give it to you for rent? That way when they fall behind again they can’t go back for more. We have had some that get checks and pay it all to rent and then when it’s up they go reapply instead of looking for work. But hey, whatever gets it in I guess. Just don’t think it’s fair for those companies who are GIVING out free money to help people.

In Texas we were getting the payments into our account from  bill.com  but as of 11/1/21 I am getting emails saying they are mailing the check

We’ve received several checks for assistance, but just got word that the funds are running out so today is the last day to apply.

They were depositing directly to property ank acct but now they starting to send checks to the property. our post office is messed up and we have not received a check yet

 

I have had good luck, we have collect right at $200k to date and all checks are mailed or FedEx’ed to the property.

Or the deposit and you wait for receipt so you know where it goes

I've already got residents on second and third approvals for more rounds. doesn't take too long anymore. the first one took about 4 or 5 months for the first payment. but after that, went faster. and mine goes direct deposited into my company's account, so we get our money. I will say though that everyone who has gotten help has either made it back to work, or are looking so they aren't getting the assistance for nothing

I think this is a state to state issue. We see a vast difference just by crossing the state line. I’m in SC

I have collected well over $150,000 in rental assistance and not one of the organization have ever sent the checks to the residents.

Texas Rent Relief sign up ended today and they are stating your application may not be approved due to money shortage

Ive never had the checks go to the tenant.

Nope our checks go to our attorney

Great Day, thank goodness they send the checks to us . But I probably have 25% of my residents waiting on rent relief and still working 
Everyone wants free rent

Houston - we are only working with one program that deposits directly into the properties account. Because the other programs do what we dont want them to do .... give the resident the check .

We also are accepting payments for those who are really in the need for the assistance through local agencies where we are required to pick up the checks. Luckily too these agencies are a hop skip and away from the properties

We have collected over 125k and still counting. There is an option for the money to go to the resident but who does that! We send a w-9 for each applicant. Some take months and months some just about 2 months. Recerts only a few weeks. I still have about a dozen in process. No word that money is running out in Michigan. People who don't seem to need it our applying for it though . SMH

My community has received over $330k and still counting as well. I am in Fulton County, GA and have a 600+ unit community. I noticed that some do get paid faster than others. I had residents receive who weren't even behind. I have not heard of any situations where the resident received the money though. That is strange because I thought all the federal assistance money was to go directly to landlord.

We don’t participate in any of the programs so we are good! Good luck!

GA has been an absolute disaster. Only a couple of counties are administering funds, and if you have a property outside of those counties you have no way of applying for funds. Then they have money going to the residents, who then continue to not pay any of the rent owed and the courts are so back-logged we can't do anything about it.

We did not participate because we didn't like the fine print. I'm never going to agree to exempt a resident from complying with the rest of the lease because they got rental assistance, and that's exactly what you sign if you agree to participate (material health & safety are excepted, but that's not good enough for me - noise and other rules are there for a reason). We also didn't like that you have to agree to extend the lease for a certain period, agree not to charge late fees, give permission for federal representatives to look at ALL of your records (not just those regarding recipients), and attest that the resident has not received any other assistance (how would I know that for sure to be able to sign my name to it?). We're happy that help is out there for residents who need it, but our lease is our lease - we'll never agree to anything that modifies it.
We did have residents qualify and receive funds themselves, as it should be. If they don't use the money to pay rent, that's fraud, I can still evict them as I haven't agreed otherwise, and their problems with the aforementioned fraud aren't in any way my problem (as opposed to being stuck in the middle if we were receiving the funds directly). I'm really pretty shocked to read this thread and see how many participated when the residents could get the assistance themselves without the landlord having to encumber their lease.