All Forum Posts by: Tristyn Combs

Thanks, everyone for the insight! 

Hi all, how do you go about calculating utility costs for short-term rentals, specifically for an out-of-state market? Do you Google and/or contact utility companies in that town to get an average of utility costs based on a regular (long term) single-family home? 

Thanks!

Darwin Crawford what has been the outcome of this project four years later? 

You are correct here.  

Hi Carl, I worked for a local nonprofit for 8 months in Central Oregon. I specifically worked in the office helping distribute rental assistance to tenants struggling to pay rent due to the pandemic. The most straight line way this process works is the assistance is paid directly to the landlord via checks. This can mean the current landlord or future landlord (and sometimes both for one applicant). 

There are many cases where the tenant is moving out of their current place in which that landlord had already received a lump sum of money for future months through the assistance program. The tenant’s current landlord is not allowed to keep the future money, hence it goes with the tenant to the new residence. Once my program paid out assistance and it reached the appropriate landlord, our fiscal team did not want to receive any checks back. New circumstances that arise are now in the hands of tenant/ landlord(s). My program did not have any hard or fast rules once the money left our office (which wouldn’t happen if the application seemed fraudulent).  In the situation you have presented, their current landlord could write the tenants a check with their leftover assistance amount, or give it to you directly. I don’t think what the tenants have told you is fraudulent. You could contact the assistance program office to see if this transfer is the best/ easiest way. 

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