RAMP/ERA Program in Mississippi
Investor · Olive Branch, MS · Member since 2016 · 20 posts · 18 votes
RAMP/ERA Program in Mississippi
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Member since 2021 · 17 posts · 23 votes
5yOriginally posted by @Account Closed:
Originally posted by @Khadiya Neketria Lee Smith:
I applied 6 weeks ago and haven’t received any funds. The online portal is suppose to help you track the status of your application, but mines still say application submitted after 6 weeks. I tried calling the toll free number and speaking to someone directly. They’re not disclosing any information. Just telling you to use the portal to monitor your application.
I applied for a tenant my app is now saying application pending approval is that a good sign
Yes! By tomorrow the application should say “Application in QC review”. My QC review took two days before the status was changed to “Application Approved”.
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- Member since 2022 · 7 posts · 0 votes4y
I'm a tenant and my landlord threatens eviction if I'm a few days late. It begins with messaging me on the 1st to remind me of the due rent and then multiple times a day if I've not paid it by the 5th. I've never gotten more than 2 weeks behind and then catch up only thanks to the help of family. The burden it's placing upon them by helping us has taken its toll so that they can't afford their own bills. I see people mentioning being 6 months behind in rent. Others a few months. Is this strictly up to the landlord on a case to case basis? Or is there any way to protect myself from eviction while I attempt to get assistance through this miserable process. It's such a disgrace to the whole system that so much money has been allotted for assistance and yet somewhere it's being just kept on hold with the cost being families losing their homes and in Mississippi they might even be having to return millions to the federal government since they're not dispersing the funds they received....clearly this system is/has failed. God help us.
- Member since 2021 · 35 posts · 10 votes4y
My landlord received a penny deposit but under his milestone it says esign and application in qc review. However in payment history both payments say paid. Is this good
- Investor · Jackson, MS · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 769 votes4y
Right now, it is up to the landlord although there were times during the pandemic when we were not allowed to evict providing they could certify that their problems paying the rent was due to the pandemic. Right now I am forced to evict my tenants who were getting RAMP money because they are now five months behind. If you can apply through a different program do so. I have another tenant who is paying through an entirely different program and they pay me 3 months in advance!
Before the pandemic if tenants were going to be late in their rent I wanted to hear that from them before the rent was due not afterwards. Otherwise, they would have a late fee for sure.
- Member since 2022 · 28 posts · 1 vote4y
How often do they update their system I wonder?
- Member since 2022 · 6 posts · 0 votes4y
Originally posted by @Susan Maneck:
Right now, it is up to the landlord although there were times during the pandemic when we were not allowed to evict providing they could certify that their problems paying the rent was due to the pandemic. Right now I am forced to evict my tenants who were getting RAMP money because they are now five months behind. If you can apply through a different program do so. I have another tenant who is paying through an entirely different program and they pay me 3 months in advance!
Before the pandemic if tenants were going to be late in their rent I wanted to hear that from them before the rent was due not afterwards. Otherwise, they would have a late fee for sure.
what is the name of the other program so i inform my tenants this RAMP is a joke they say PAID and im yet to get it into my DD since 11th of Jan and last friday i saw the milstone notice under my tenant and application status stating paid
- Investor · Jackson, MS · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 769 votes4y
I think it is called Hinds County Rental Assistance. Here is the portal:
https://hindsrentalaid.com/ - Member since 2022 · 6 posts · 0 votes4y
Originally posted by @Susan Maneck:
I think it is called Hinds County Rental Assistance. Here is the portal:
https://hindsrentalaid.com/thanks i will innfrom my tenant the RAMP seem to be playing with people lives they said PAID with the right account details since on the 11th of jan nothing yet in my account
- Investor · Jackson, MS · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 769 votes4y
Paid in Ramp usually means you'll get your money in two or three weeks. My tenant is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and I feel bad because it isn't their fault. Her husband is a Covid long-hauler who hasn't been able to work for more than a year but I've paid more in property taxes on their house this year than they've been able to pay in rent and I just can't hold out any longer.
- Member since 2022 · 6 posts · 0 votes4y
Originally posted by @Susan Maneck:
Paid in Ramp usually means you'll get your money in two or three weeks. My tenant is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and I feel bad because it isn't their fault. Her husband is a Covid long-hauler who hasn't been able to work for more than a year but I've paid more in property taxes on their house this year than they've been able to pay in rent and I just can't hold out any longer.
SO THE PAID MEANS THE FUNDS IS COMING INTO MY ACCOUNT STILL? ITS BEEN OVER THREE WEEKS NOW
- Member since 2022 · 2 posts · 0 votes4y
Originally posted by @Susan Maneck:
When I went to the Ramp website earlier this week and it said my tenants' application was denied. This after they were five months behind in rent! But then a penny was deposited to my checking account. I can't imagine why they would have done this unless they were planning to make a bigger deposit.
Why was it denied? Did they say the reason
- Member since 2022 · 7 posts · 0 votes4y
Originally posted by @Susan Maneck:Before the pandemic if tenants were going to be late in their rent I wanted to hear that from them before the rent was due not afterwards. Otherwise, they would have a late fee for sure.
Thank you for your response. I will be sure to keep this in mind from this point forward.I'd like to ask you, as a landlord, some questions and I would receive your answers with the understanding that they don't necessarily represent every landlords feelings but at least they give me a little more knowledge I can apply when making decisions in the future.
Do you evict or begin evicting process if a tenant is late by no more than 2 weeks? Never even a whole month behind. Please provide both post and pre pandemic answer if the 2 differ.Is it typically considered an acceptable or common practice to increase rent by $200 a month? How about increasing rent by $200 in the last month of your lease, after having asked your intentions as to renewing the lease as much as 3 months prior to the leases expiration. I don't ask these questions in any other tone or spirit other than in the pursuit of better understanding and experience for my future ahead.
If any of this violates any rules or etiquette, please inform me immediately and I will take whatever steps necessary to correct the situation.
Thank you in advance for your time.
Sincerely,
Nick J.
- Member since 2022 · 9 posts · 0 votes4y
@Carmen Jones, my processor quit responding also. i have emailed the govenor, lt govenor, last month ans thats when my status changed to under review. I . emailed the attorney general friday and she just called me, she said I should be hearing something soon. she said she contacted them to find out what was going on and why was it taking so long. she didnt give me the answers to those questions but said they should be contacting me very soon......
- Investor · Jackson, MS · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 769 votes4y
If a tenant tells me they are going to be late I always ask them "how late?" Normally I will wait until that period is up. If they haven't paid me by then, that's when I issue a three day notice. If they say they are going to be two weeks late then I would demand a partial payment up front. I don't want to let them get a month behind because it takes three weeks to get a court case once you file and their deposit only covers a month's rent at most. Tenants who get a month behind in my experience, will never catch up. This was all pre-pandemic. Post-pandemic I have given people more slack if I knew their situation was Covid-related, partially because I knew federal aid was coming and I could afford to be patient. No, I would never consider raising rent by $200 but I've seen apartment complexes do this mostly in the beginning of the third year of occupancy. Mississippi laws are all landlord friendly and do next to nothing to protect tenants. In fact I bought my first property in Mississippi when they did that in the apartment complex where I was living in in Ridgeland. I did the math and figured it would be cheaper to buy. Mind you, I stayed about a month and a half after my lease expired because the close kept getting delayed and I paid them the old amount. They took the money and didn't object but I didn't get my deposit back so it came out about even. (I had to leave one room dirty because I had a plane to catch.) To be honest before this year the only time I raised rent on a tenant was when they made me mad by not taking their trampoline down when I said they couldn't have it (insurance reasons.) Because of what happened with property values and rents recently I am raising rents when leases expire now but only by about $25 a month which means they are still well below current market rates, so no one is going to move. A landlord's biggest expense is turnover so normally we want to keep tenants as long as possible. If you have a lease I'm not sure how they could increase what you owe by any amount whatsoever until the lease expires. Or are you saying they are increasing it by that much when the lease ends? In California you have to give 60 days notice to raise the rent but in Mississippi they only need 30 days. Mind you, I only own houses. When it is a multi-unit property or there is a property manager involved things are going to be much stricter and less personal. A property manager isn't going to want to mess with partial payments like I did when I lived in walking distance from most of my tenants. Since I'm now living in California whenever one of my houses goes vacant or I need to do an eviction, the property gets turned over to my property manager. I've actually only got one property left that I'm managing myself and that's the one where I get my rent three months in advance from federal funds.
- Investor · Jackson, MS · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 769 votes4y
Why was it denied? Did they say the reason
No, RAMP does an excellent job of not telling anyone tenant or landlord anything!
- Member since 2022 · 13 posts · 0 votes4y@Susan Maneck did it change from denial mines said denied from not able to verify property my Landlord sent in quick deed and I hahaven't heard anything. They deposit 1 cent in my Landlord account as well but it has milestone and denied so I'm confused.
Quote from @Susan Maneck:
When I went to the Ramp website earlier this week and it said my tenants' application was denied. This after they were five months behind in rent! But then a penny was deposited to my checking account. I can't imagine why they would have done this unless they were planning to make a bigger deposit.
- Investor · Jackson, MS · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 769 votes4y
That is what mine is doing. The deposited one cent and are still saying denied. But since I've gotten two earlier payments from them it couldn't be because they couldn't verify the property. It is the recertification that apparently got denied.
- Investor · Jackson, MS · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 769 votes4y
Quote from @Deborah Walker:
Originally posted by @Susan Maneck:
Paid in Ramp usually means you'll get your money in two or three weeks. My tenant is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and I feel bad because it isn't their fault. Her husband is a Covid long-hauler who hasn't been able to work for more than a year but I've paid more in property taxes on their house this year than they've been able to pay in rent and I just can't hold out any longer.
SO THE PAID MEANS THE FUNDS IS COMING INTO MY ACCOUNT STILL? ITS BEEN OVER THREE WEEKS NOW
Yep, basically that is what it means. It means they have released the funds but not necessarily deposited them.
- Member since 2022 · 3 posts · 0 votes4yI submitted my application for Ramp Era November 12, 2021, then is was reviewed on January 7, 2022 and it has been in “Application under review” since January 7th. How will I know if something is needed or how long will it take to be approved?
I’ve called the number provider and they can’t seem to tell me anything but the application is under review! Duh, I know that already! - Member since 2022 · 13 posts · 0 votes4y
Quote from @Susan Maneck:
That is what mine is doing. The deposited one cent and are still saying denied. But since I've gotten two earlier payments from them it couldn't be because they couldn't verify the property. It is the recertification that apparently got denied.
Ok thanks.
- Investor · Jackson, MS · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 769 votes4ySadly that is typical. My tenants applied four months ago and their application was only denied last week. Put the landlord in a really bad position.
Quote from @Hope Washington:
I submitted my application for Ramp Era November 12, 2021, then is was reviewed on January 7, 2022 and it has been in “Application under review” since January 7th. How will I know if something is needed or how long will it take to be approved?
I’ve called the number provider and they can’t seem to tell me anything but the application is under review! Duh, I know that already! - Member since 2022 · 6 posts · 0 votes4yI Been On Application Has Been Paid For 5 Weeks Still No Payment
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