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As many of you know, I'm mentally disabled.

*pauses for laughter*

Besides having PTSD, I am losing my memory at a rather alarming rate. I have good days and bad days. If you ever follow my writing/posts, you can pretty much tell which days were good and which days were bad. Anyway, because I'm only 47 I am on disability but I don't qualify for Social Security for another 20 years. No worries. I am working at building my own business doing research. Not an easy task with a memory problem, but one has to do what one has to do.

Because my disability is only $699 a month, I need to live in a rent assisted housing facility. Here in Texas the waiting list for a Section 8 housing voucher is years long so I opted to rent in a housing program that is offered by the community where I live. It is overseen by HUD, but it is privately owned property which is reimbursed for the remainder of the rent due through a state HUD grant program.

Now because it is privately owned, they can make their own rules. Not a problem, right? Erm. Maybe. The Housing Authority is run by Board of investors. This is a very small town with about zip for crime and everyone practically knows each other by name. This board makes some really interesting rules. I'm just going to name a few to see what you all think. Now I'd like to point out that I am the youngest person in this complex which is made up of 16 one bedroom units. The rest of the people who live here are all retired elderly and are all widowed with grown children.

Once a month we have a housing inspection. These inspections get weirder and weirder as the months go by. While I can understand the reasoning behind some of the - rules - I can't help but find many of them personally offensive and horrendously disrespectful to the elderly living here.

1. They check my dresser drawers, closets, cabinets and other furniture drawers for hidden drugs or drug paraphernalia.

2. They require my apartment to be as clean as a hospital. I've been in some of the board member's houses and I can tell you that they do not live up to their own standards.

3. Even though we are all on a limited income, we are required to water the lawns around our apartments to keep bugs out. Anyone care to wonder a guess at how much my water bill runs? Some of these elderly live on far less since they were housewives and mothers and did not work outside of the home.

4. There can not be any dust, streaks, or dirt on the windows. All window blinds must be free of dust or dirt and not be damaged in any way. We pay to have the blinds put in, btw.

5. If we have a pet, we are required to pay a 300 dollar non-refundable deposit. Yes...a deposit which is non-refundable. It should be called a fee if it isn't refundable, but oh well.

Here are some of the other rules which really chap my ass.

1. Any family member who brings over a resident's personal pet, must pay a 300 dollar non-refundable deposit each time the animal visits and show proof of all shots. If the animal is going to live with the resident, the deposit need only be paid once. Failure to comply will result in eviction of the resident. Seriously.

2. All dogs must be kept on a short leash. Any one using a leash over three feet will be fined and the animal will be barred from the property. blink

3. All outside windows must be washed once a month. The siding and doors must be free of dust and dirt. Now wait a fucking minute. How is 89 year old granny suppose to fucking clean the god damned siding and wash windows that go 8 ft off the ground?

4. All areas outside of the apartment, including personal gardening areas, must be free of weeds. Failure to comply will result in a $50 fine for each day of noncompliance.

And it goes on and on. HUD doesn't have any such rules. I've spoken with the State Attorney's office and they said that because it is private property that the owners can make any rules that do not violate my Constitutional rights. Erm... what about the monthly searches? She said that is a grey area. A grey area? WTF? What about the watering? 120 a month in a Texas summer? I have to go for days without AC and my diet is far from nutritional just to comply with all of the stupid rules. I haven't been out to eat, gone out for a cup of coffee, or bought so much as a fucking candle for ambiance in eons. Can't afford it. No phone, TV or extras. This feels more like a punishment than a help. We're treated like subhuman criminals who live in prison. Our recourse? We can leave.

So for the folks who think that those of us who need public assistance to get by live footloose and fancy free - we most certainly do not. It's humiliating, degrading and totalitarian. It's why we call this complex "Nazi Square". And the rules keep coming. Sometimes two and three new ones a month. It's insane.

Thanks. Just needed to vent.
 Quoting: Éireann




Your diet (or lack thereof) is what is causing your memory issues. While I realize nutritional wellness costs more than eating cheap food...I'd like to just give you a drop of information in hopes that you can adhere to it.

Right when you wake up? No food for 2 hours.
Just drink a nice big cup of water.

Distilled is best.
Purified is 2nd with reverse osmosis.

Eat only raw/organic unsalted almonds and walnuts every 2 hrs.

In between the 2 hours drink water.
For lunch have organic fruit (banana, apple, dark berries)

(Keep grazing on nuts throughout the day) Your hunger should be great about now (around 6-7pm) Eat one big meal of your choosing to reward yourself.

Foods to eat:
Quinoa, brown/wild rice, amaranth, kamut
Don't eat bread at all, no gluten, no soy, no wheat.
Avoid Dairy unless you buy pastured products (including meat)

Cook only with coconut oil.
Dress salads with olive oil but NO frying with it.
Eat romaine, kale, dark greens, spinach, carrots, sweet potato...

No coffee, no tea, no fruit juice.
Drink half of your body weight in ounces.
No refined/processed foods and no simple carbs.

If you can manage this you will be golden.


As far as your living situation.
If you are charged a one time fee for animals?
You might as well state that the animal you wish to have visit you is a permanent resident. That way you can just state the animal is being walked or whatever when the visit happens.
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TRY LOOKING INTO VIOLATIONS OF STATE STATUTORY, STATE REGULATIONS, TENANTS RIGHTS, AND SO FORTH. STAY OUT OF FEDERAL COURT FOR THESE TYPE OF COMPLAINTS. FIND ALSO LAWYERS WHO DEAL WITH LANDLORD/TENANT CASES YO MAY BE ABLE GET SOMEWHERE.
 Quoting: PARANOID CLOWN


I agree. This is NOT HUDS ISSUE. This is tenant landlord laws. State.
OP go to Texas statutes and read up on landlord laws.

OP, read your lease, it is your legal guideline as to what you signed on for. If they come in and inspect your home, it should be acknowledged in your lease. If it is not, then it goes against your contract with the apartments.


YOUR LEASE IS A CONTRACT. What is in it is what both the landlord and the tenant MUST abide to.
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TRY LOOKING INTO VIOLATIONS OF STATE STATUTORY, STATE REGULATIONS, TENANTS RIGHTS, AND SO FORTH. STAY OUT OF FEDERAL COURT FOR THESE TYPE OF COMPLAINTS. FIND ALSO LAWYERS WHO DEAL WITH LANDLORD/TENANT CASES YO MAY BE ABLE GET SOMEWHERE.
 Quoting: PARANOID CLOWN


I agree. This is NOT HUDS ISSUE. This is tenant landlord laws. State.
OP go to Texas statutes and read up on landlord laws.

OP, read your lease, it is your legal guideline as to what you signed on for. If they come in and inspect your home, it should be acknowledged in your lease. If it is not, then it goes against your contract with the apartments.


YOUR LEASE IS A CONTRACT. What is in it is what both the landlord and the tenant MUST abide to.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46287683

Wow. I really don't think it needs to go that far. This is a tiny little town. We shop together, go to church together, sit in the same city council meetings together, shop at the same nursery for our veggie garden stuff. We all know each other. This isn't some big city company taking advantage of the disabled and elderly, these are our neighbors. blink
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If you worked for 30 years and your disability is only $699 a month, you must have worked minimum wage jobs? Sure you ain't on SSI?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31977378

Yep. I'm sure. You have to add in the 105 for Medicare premium and take into account my age. I was 4 quarters shy of being fully vested. Also, I worked for the work. I couldn't have children and I didn't really care about owning a house or anything like that. The research was my goal. So I didn't really pay attention to the salary. For example... 21k a year for a job I could have gotten 40k for elsewhere but I wouldn't have had the opportunity to be involved in researching the material I was interested in.
 Quoting: Éireann


Your income is so low you need to check for medicare 'special help' in your state. Some one with your income can find all kinds of programs, if you look. I even get 10% property tax reduction.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31977378

Oh sure. So I can have more people bitch at me about what a mooch I am? No thanks.
 Quoting: Éireann


Eireanne, Both Miggy and yourself please hold your heads up , you are wooking very hard to climb out to a higher place. you are not willing to be complacent. THese jackasses only talk without remembering you did work for your social security . They mistakenly think they are paying for your "free ride" prayers for you both !!
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TRY LOOKING INTO VIOLATIONS OF STATE STATUTORY, STATE REGULATIONS, TENANTS RIGHTS, AND SO FORTH. STAY OUT OF FEDERAL COURT FOR THESE TYPE OF COMPLAINTS. FIND ALSO LAWYERS WHO DEAL WITH LANDLORD/TENANT CASES YO MAY BE ABLE GET SOMEWHERE.
 Quoting: PARANOID CLOWN


I agree. This is NOT HUDS ISSUE. This is tenant landlord laws. State.
OP go to Texas statutes and read up on landlord laws.

OP, read your lease, it is your legal guideline as to what you signed on for. If they come in and inspect your home, it should be acknowledged in your lease. If it is not, then it goes against your contract with the apartments.


YOUR LEASE IS A CONTRACT. What is in it is what both the landlord and the tenant MUST abide to.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46287683

Wow. I really don't think it needs to go that far. This is a tiny little town. We shop together, go to church together, sit in the same city council meetings together, shop at the same nursery for our veggie garden stuff. We all know each other. This isn't some big city company taking advantage of the disabled and elderly, these are our neighbors. blink
 Quoting: Éireann


What do you mean? if you mean you want to do nothing about the "rules" you have to follow, then why even bring it up on here.

Do all of us a favor and READ your lease. If the "rules" are illegal- then do something about it through Texas law. You would be doing the elderly a favor by not letting them get railroaded. But my guess is that all of the "rules" you described are in fact in the lease, at least referred to vaguely, in which case, you signed and MUST comply with.
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TRY LOOKING INTO VIOLATIONS OF STATE STATUTORY, STATE REGULATIONS, TENANTS RIGHTS, AND SO FORTH. STAY OUT OF FEDERAL COURT FOR THESE TYPE OF COMPLAINTS. FIND ALSO LAWYERS WHO DEAL WITH LANDLORD/TENANT CASES YO MAY BE ABLE GET SOMEWHERE.
 Quoting: PARANOID CLOWN


I agree. This is NOT HUDS ISSUE. This is tenant landlord laws. State.
OP go to Texas statutes and read up on landlord laws.

OP, read your lease, it is your legal guideline as to what you signed on for. If they come in and inspect your home, it should be acknowledged in your lease. If it is not, then it goes against your contract with the apartments.


YOUR LEASE IS A CONTRACT. What is in it is what both the landlord and the tenant MUST abide to.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46287683


You are correct this is not a HUD issue-HUD has it's guidelines that are published and given to every tenant upon rental.

The stipulations in the lease are strange to say to least esp. since she signed on and agreed.

Searching for dresser drawers, rummaging in closets,etc for drugs & drug paraphrenalia sounds to me this for lack of better terms -a consent to search & seizure w/o a warrant---very odd for a rental agreement .
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Yep. I'm sure. You have to add in the 105 for Medicare premium and take into account my age. I was 4 quarters shy of being fully vested. Also, I worked for the work. I couldn't have children and I didn't really care about owning a house or anything like that. The research was my goal. So I didn't really pay attention to the salary. For example... 21k a year for a job I could have gotten 40k for elsewhere but I wouldn't have had the opportunity to be involved in researching the material I was interested in.
 Quoting: Éireann


Your income is so low you need to check for medicare 'special help' in your state. Some one with your income can find all kinds of programs, if you look. I even get 10% property tax reduction.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31977378

Oh sure. So I can have more people bitch at me about what a mooch I am? No thanks.
 Quoting: Éireann


Eireanne, Both Miggy and yourself please hold your heads up , you are wooking very hard to climb out to a higher place. you are not willing to be complacent. THese jackasses only talk without remembering you did work for your social security . They mistakenly think they are paying for your "free ride" prayers for you both !!
 Quoting: Karen Seeking Truth


sorry..working.
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** [link to yougottahave.com] - Extreme survival requires knowing what to do if your home is destroyed without having to count on FEMA!

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If you worked for 30 years and your disability is only $699 a month, you must have worked minimum wage jobs? Sure you ain't on SSI?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31977378

Yep. I'm sure. You have to add in the 105 for Medicare premium and take into account my age. I was 4 quarters shy of being fully vested. Also, I worked for the work. I couldn't have children and I didn't really care about owning a house or anything like that. The research was my goal. So I didn't really pay attention to the salary. For example... 21k a year for a job I could have gotten 40k for elsewhere but I wouldn't have had the opportunity to be involved in researching the material I was interested in.
 Quoting: Éireann


Your income is so low you need to check for medicare 'special help' in your state. Some one with your income can find all kinds of programs, if you look. I even get 10% property tax reduction.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31977378

Oh sure. So I can have more people bitch at me about what a mooch I am? No thanks.
 Quoting: Éireann


I don't care what ppl think about me, why do you think wealthy ppl have so much money, take advantage of every angle you can.
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Fuck 'em. They should be hiring someone to do this shit since their residents are disabled and elderly.
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$699 Month?

This doesn't add up.

You say you worked for 30 years?

SSI = Effective January 1, 2013, the Federal benefit rate is $710 for an individual.

So, you are receiving less money on SSDI than someone on SSI?


Something is NOT adding up?
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Are you Christian?
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That is not an answer.
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$699 Month?

This doesn't add up.

You say you worked for 30 years?

SSI = Effective January 1, 2013, the Federal benefit rate is $710 for an individual.

So, you are receiving less money on SSDI than someone on SSI?


Something is NOT adding up?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31977378


She might be on SSI.
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$699 Month?

This doesn't add up.

You say you worked for 30 years?

SSI = Effective January 1, 2013, the Federal benefit rate is $710 for an individual.

So, you are receiving less money on SSDI than someone on SSI?


Something is NOT adding up?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31977378


She might be on SSI.
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I'm sure of it.
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I think OP is actually in a tax credit property, which has no relation to HUD HOUSING.

If she were on Hud, she would have had to put in an application with HUD to get on the waiting list, then went to several meetings where she signed on the dotted line on many pages where counselors ask whether she understands what the rules are.

HUD has 3 basic programs and you have to voluntarily sign up for them.

Tax credit housing is not HUD.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46287683

Oh really? They still have to be inspected by HUD. This is all sooooo confusing.

But I never put in an application to HUD. Just the application here where I live.

I need coffee first. Then I'll Google Tax Credit Housing. I don't even know what that means.
 Quoting: Éireann



While your 'Googling', think about the hungry and the dispossessed.

While you sip your coffee,think of the people living on the street.

I suspect you wont,just like you wont answer the posts that criticize you.

You have to worry about 'important' things like watering your lawn and washing the occasional window.


It's all about perspective,and you have none.


cupofjoe
 Quoting: IntoTheLight


I think OP is actually in a tax credit property, which has no relation to HUD HOUSING.

If she were on Hud, she would have had to put in an application with HUD to get on the waiting list, then went to several meetings where she signed on the dotted line on many pages where counselors ask whether she understands what the rules are.

HUD has 3 basic programs and you have to voluntarily sign up for them.

Tax credit housing is not HUD.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46287683

Oh really? They still have to be inspected by HUD. This is all sooooo confusing.

But I never put in an application to HUD. Just the application here where I live.

I need coffee first. Then I'll Google Tax Credit Housing. I don't even know what that means.
 Quoting: Éireann



While your 'Googling', think about the hungry and the dispossessed.

While you sip your coffee,think of the people living on the street.

I suspect you wont,just like you wont answer the posts that criticize you.

You have to worry about 'important' things like watering your lawn and washing the occasional window.


It's all about perspective,and you have none.


cupofjoe
 Quoting: IntoTheLight

 Quoting: What?? 13175518


I think OP is actually in a tax credit property, which has no relation to HUD HOUSING.

If she were on Hud, she would have had to put in an application with HUD to get on the waiting list, then went to several meetings where she signed on the dotted line on many pages where counselors ask whether she understands what the rules are.

HUD has 3 basic programs and you have to voluntarily sign up for them.

Tax credit housing is not HUD.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46287683

Oh really? They still have to be inspected by HUD. This is all sooooo confusing.

But I never put in an application to HUD. Just the application here where I live.

I need coffee first. Then I'll Google Tax Credit Housing. I don't even know what that means.
 Quoting: Éireann



While your 'Googling', think about the hungry and the dispossessed.

While you sip your coffee,think of the people living on the street.

I suspect you wont,just like you wont answer the posts that criticize you.

You have to worry about 'important' things like watering your lawn and washing the occasional window.


It's all about perspective,and you have none.


cupofjoe
 Quoting: IntoTheLight

Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning? You think I'm oblivious to the world around me? Jesus Christ, Light. If you need to bitch, fine, but what the hell???
 Quoting: Éireann


Shame on you. Americans are in such bad shape right now. Maybe if we stop sending billions in aid to other countries, we should take care of our own. a little empathy wouldnt hurt either.
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Yet you can afford a GLP gold star.

stfu moocher
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Always got to be one assuming asshole on any thread such as this.norespect
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clappa

Sorry to hear about these rules. Try to keep ur chin up!
hf
Maybe the bright side is that ur place looks great and not run down and u have nice neighbors vs. inconsiderate aholes who have no pride in anything they do.
You are the creator of your own master plan... Make it a good one.

Wake the fuk up and be ready... This is absolutely no time to be stupid!

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What ever the government subsidises it controls.
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Hi E,

So sorry about the rules and the invasiveness.

Did you know how Coconut oil turns around the memory issues?

Reason being that in the US the brains get a kind of 'diabetes' and start resisting the glucose/insulin after a certain age.

However, the brain can also run on ketones which the coconut oil provides.

dose = three heaping tablespoons a day.

Won't hurt your heart, dispite the myths about saturated fat.

Will actually keep you slim.

You may need to cut back a few calories somewhere else.

However, your brain will be healed and your memory will return!!


You can also use lumosity.com for free to fix your memory.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46236738


Can also, from what I've read, protect you from viruses. Love, love, love the stuff, and am going to pick some up today. You can use it in all kinds of cooking, but the best way to use it is straight from the jar!

y_lovin

Really good brand:

[link to nutiva.com]
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Tenants get together and agree to hire out window washing and lawn care to someone's able bodied grandson or nephew. Or just some unemployed person who is willing to take on the job.

Some kid could get in there and wash all the windows and do all of the lawncare without various people having to set up and do each task individually. Most of the effort here would actually be in the setting up of equipment. One person -- or a two or three man crew -- could just set up, do it all, get paid and get it over with for everybody.
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***This***. Except they'd probably say, "this isn't allowed".
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The other 99% are assholes. There were lax rules at the public housing in Chicago. We had to tear them all down because they became cesspools.
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hugs from me to you...

I know the rules seem very harsh, but what they are probably trying to do is keep their insurance premiums under control.

This is a tough call and I do think they have overstepped their authority by searching personal draws and closets...

The pet "deposit" is pretty typical of apartment living.

The "clean" thing I can understand because of bugs and other critters.

But I do not understand the watering of lawns and washing siding and windows? What? Suppose a little elderly lady were to slip off the ladder on THEIR property trying to fulfill the board's requirements? I don't think the Board has thought this through.

There is a plus side though, you live in a clean, safe place and in today's America there are a lot of people who can't say that...

I am not saying cave to such ridiculous impositions. I am sure it is very frustrating, but what I am saying is don't let it get you down...
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How long did it take to get disability?
Who is John Galt?
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Some of the biggest "dicktators" are on condo and association boards.
Éireann  (OP)

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$699 Month?

This doesn't add up.

You say you worked for 30 years?

SSI = Effective January 1, 2013, the Federal benefit rate is $710 for an individual.

So, you are receiving less money on SSDI than someone on SSI?


Something is NOT adding up?
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Yeah... well. We all know that you can get more if you've never worked. We just don't talk about it.
Eireann~

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Éireann  (OP)

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How long did it take to get disability?
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I honestly do not remember. I vaguely remember talking to a judge in a court room in ND, but my lawyer did most of the talking since I couldn't really remember why I was there. I'm really sorry, but I simply can't remember what the hell happened after March 23rd of 2003 till about September of 2005. Whatever went on in my life during those times is gone.
Eireann~

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20
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To all of those bemoaning the OP for her temporary plight I'd like to ask you this:

If you think she's on "welfare" now what do you think she was on all of those years when she pumped thousands of her hard earned dollars into it?
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Welfare isn't a bad word. It merely contemplates a safety net. Mooching and griping whilst being provided for compassionately is the problem. Either shit in the pot or get off. It can be done...yer just needs a backbone.

But pointing the finger at the other moochers whilst mooching....not good.
Éireann  (OP)

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TRY LOOKING INTO VIOLATIONS OF STATE STATUTORY, STATE REGULATIONS, TENANTS RIGHTS, AND SO FORTH. STAY OUT OF FEDERAL COURT FOR THESE TYPE OF COMPLAINTS. FIND ALSO LAWYERS WHO DEAL WITH LANDLORD/TENANT CASES YO MAY BE ABLE GET SOMEWHERE.
 Quoting: PARANOID CLOWN


I agree. This is NOT HUDS ISSUE. This is tenant landlord laws. State.
OP go to Texas statutes and read up on landlord laws.

OP, read your lease, it is your legal guideline as to what you signed on for. If they come in and inspect your home, it should be acknowledged in your lease. If it is not, then it goes against your contract with the apartments.


YOUR LEASE IS A CONTRACT. What is in it is what both the landlord and the tenant MUST abide to.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46287683

Wow. I really don't think it needs to go that far. This is a tiny little town. We shop together, go to church together, sit in the same city council meetings together, shop at the same nursery for our veggie garden stuff. We all know each other. This isn't some big city company taking advantage of the disabled and elderly, these are our neighbors. blink
 Quoting: Éireann


What do you mean? if you mean you want to do nothing about the "rules" you have to follow, then why even bring it up on here.

Do all of us a favor and READ your lease. If the "rules" are illegal- then do something about it through Texas law. You would be doing the elderly a favor by not letting them get railroaded. But my guess is that all of the "rules" you described are in fact in the lease, at least referred to vaguely, in which case, you signed and MUST comply with.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46287683

Oh no. I'm going to do something, but I'd rather talk to the board first and with a group. Gracious. I'm hoping this can be resolved without a bunch of legal shit. What if they close the place down because I went straight to the government? That's 15 really great old folks out of a place to live.

I have spoken with the State Attorney's General Office. The Assistant Attorney I spoke with said that because this is a privately owned property, they can make whatever rules they like so long as those rules do not infringe upon my State or Federal Constitutional rights, but that the searches thing was a grey area because since the Housing Authority receives grant money from HUD, they are required to make sure that no one living here is using drugs. Well...we are pretty much walking pharmacies here so I guess they mean illegal drugs chuckle

I only posted this thread to get feed back on what people thought about those rules and if they agreed with me that they were a little hokey and over the top. I certainly didn't mean to get into a war about public assistance. Good grief :(
Eireann~

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20
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Re: Living in Subsidized Housing
To all of those bemoaning the OP for her temporary plight I'd like to ask you this:

If you think she's on "welfare" now what do you think she was on all of those years when she pumped thousands of her hard earned dollars into it?
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Welfare isn't a bad word. It merely contemplates a safety net. Mooching and griping whilst being provided for compassionately is the problem. Either shit in the pot or get off. It can be done...yer just needs a backbone.

But pointing the finger at the other moochers whilst mooching....not good.
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I see. So that I worked doesn't matter. It's that I'm not working now and drawing on the money I put into the fund.

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You have the FREEDOM to be homeless and not live in subsidized housing and then not have to follow the stated rules and live by the regulations in a subsidized apartment. You and all the old people that are so valuable to society all have the same freedom to go live on the street like many other Americans do and not live in tax payer subsidized housing, especially since that you feel it's overly strict and such a burden upon you with all the regulations. In fact I'm sure there's probably a waiting list of people that are beyond desperate to get into the very apartments where you and these elderly live and would cherish the chance to have a home paid for in part by the tax payers. They probably wouldn't even mind following the rules and regulations that they would have too in order to have such a chance. So the property management company wants to make sure that the investment they over see, which is what that housing is for the owners. Isn't a losing money draining investment and also wants to make sure the place is kept clean and the tenants aren't on drugs, filthy or let animals cause property damage. Heck this is a pretty good idea, who would have thought protecting your investment is a good idea. As a taxpayer I'm all for more of these rules and regulations, I wish all housing authorities and government programs were run so strictly. The harder it is for people to live off the system and the more difficultly associated with it the better in my book.
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What I don't get is why aren't you or your hubby working and supporting yourselves. You claim to be a supporter of small government, you mouth off at will about the lazy blacks (you and that crazy Jew wannabe Nazi, The Comedian).) Am I missing something. Shouldn't you or hubby be out there day and night, seeking to find work to pay your way?
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Re: Living in Subsidized Housing
$699 Month?

This doesn't add up.

You say you worked for 30 years?

SSI = Effective January 1, 2013, the Federal benefit rate is $710 for an individual.

So, you are receiving less money on SSDI than someone on SSI?


Something is NOT adding up?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31977378

Yeah... well. We all know that you can get more if you've never worked. We just don't talk about it.
 Quoting: Éireann


$699 (2012) x 1.017 = $710 (2013)

Honey you are on SSI.





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