Housing Discrimination Laws

[Mistress Stowastiq]

You should look into and get really familiar with landlord tenant laws in your state/county.
Look up the residential/commercial housing disability requirements for your area.

Call a rep from the ADA and ask questions, they are very open to helping property owners who actually take the time to look into these things.

Get an attorney familiar with landlord tenant law who you can consult with on a regular basis for support.

There are actual people who make a living on writing up rental property owners for disability violations. They use phonebooks and start from A and continue by calling/visiting the property and finding all the violations. After finding the violations they send legal threats to the owner and monitor them for compliance within a certain time period. Some of their investigations involve sending a fake tenant to apply for the place, just to see if they get treated unfairly.

There are also discrimination investigators who do similar probes with fake tenants for racial discrimination, once a person contacts them with a complaint about a property owner.

Doing deep credit checks and reference checks also helps.

Your best route though, is to be well-versed on your rights and the rights of a tenant along with your local housing laws, long before even placing the house open for renters.

[pahnphoenix]

i'm really jealous of whoever ends up getting to be this guy's tenants.

[Ksandra]

OP is being silly.

As others stated if a gay guy wants to sue for being kicked out for being gay, he HAS TO OFFER PROOF. If someone is a gay slob and you kick him, and state it's because he's a slob, he's not getting discriminated against.

It's pretty simple.

[edit] my parents owned (sold recently) my mom's parents' 3 story house for 30ish years. They converted it into 3 apartment floors. In all those 30 years never once was discrimination an issue when they had to kick people out for various issues, because their issues were legit (ie not paying rent, an issue where people left like 8 kittens that died in their apt while on vacation, etc).

Only problems they had was getting to kick out welfare people before section 8 existed, but that's irrelevant.

[Not Kuno]

I'm also sure that if you're in the same house or whatever, you can deny anyone for any reason. At least here in NY. Also if you're worried about the place being trashed, take pics the day before you let someone in.