My sister can qualify for a section 8 voucher. Can I create a LLC buy a home under the LLC and rent it to her. I can’t do it as a family member but as an LLC? --96.42.xxx.xxx

My sister can qualify for a section 8 voucher. Can I create a LLC, buy a home and rent it to her using the LLC as landlord? I can’t do that as family member. --96.42.xxx.xxx

I wouldn't. --99.203.xx.xxx

Never rent to family --75.138.xxx.xxx

sure you could. I bet you are one of those people that scream government overreach when they find out and prosecute you for fraud. Will they find out? Probably not. Often a rule on this forum. Never rent to friends and family. What happens if your sister stops paying rent then retaliates by notifying section 8? --50.5.xxx.xx

Sister has limited resources and is going thru divorce. Just asking if this was legal. --96.42.xxx.xxx

Gene...please find an atty that deals in S8 --162.247.xx.xx

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BUT, there many reasons why it is a BAD idea. Good luck --70.160.xxx.xxx

I would say do what DJ said,call the housing authority and if they say it is ok then have the head guy put it in writing.I doubt it will be ok though.Let your sister go find her own place. --104.229.xxx.xxx

I know parents that did that for their son, but they worked with the local housing authority and had permission. A previous tenant's family did this and also worked with the housing authority. I believe it involved some doctor's approvals. I can see how this is appealing but could also go very poorly as well. --73.17.xx.xxx

Otherwise, if your sister has a S8 voucher, let her go spend her voucher as normal, and don't mix business and family. And then if you want to help her out because of her limited resources, send her a Walmart gift card every so often as a hope-this-helps-was-thinking-about-you kind of gift. --96.46.xxx.xx

Bad idea. No good deed goes unpunished. One argument or issue and she gets angry and reports you to Housing. NoNoNo --24.233.xxx.xx

You may be able to provide immediate family with housing, however if you have no sec8 experience this is not the place to start the learning curve in being a housing provider, one wrong move and the government resource center will gladly demand a refund of the funding used for their client whether an LLC or a named family member - it is what the news team wants to report on saving funding to help other families that makes it unique to the big picture. --76.188.xxx.xxx

2. You're related to your sis even if you try to rent through LLC. It could jeopardize her voucher and they stop paying you rent. --99.128.xxx.xxx

Just for the record, I did do this once. For family. I checked the box on the section 8 form so they knew goin in that we were family, very close family, as in your situation. I risk everything going south and they could ask me to repay all the money they paid me over the years. It never went south, never an issue, but i did loose a few sleepness nights and it was always in the back of my mind and I always held more in holding saving just incase. So i guess it can be done, I never put the property in an LLC that for sure would be a FACT that you were trying something that they don't like and you just built their case against you as shady business practice. My relative and I had different last names, maybe you do also. So perhaps just fill out the papers, and disclose that you are related, but having different last names may help you HELP her. However I would still stand by my first entry - I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it again, it's a different world now, this was about 20 years ago, computer and such have come a long way for cross referencing! --99.203.xx.xx

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Whatever the answer from Sectio 8...get it in writing. --174.225.xxx.xxx