Denial of applicant on expunged criminal charges??

[Lacee Beitler]

Buckle up. You can’t make this stuff up. We have an applicant who had the following 4 charges expunged from her record: -aggregated assault -burglary -criminal attempt - CRIMINAL HOMICIDE -conspiracy- aggravated assault Sounds like a model citizen, right? Needless to say, we don’t want to rent to her. Her application otherwise checks out (credit score, income, etc) so we can’t deny her on anything else. So how can we legally deny her, because she wasn’t convicted of those crimes (and she has the expungement letter). Thanks!

[Lacee Beitler]

Thanks for the replies! @Colleen F. and @Thomas S.

We were able to deny on income requirement (could not verify her income) so we dodged that one! Looking at her application, we found other things that were very misleading - including her mom who was the one who submitted the application, kept checking in on the application, and kept referring to it as "her" application, though everything was in the daughter's name (with the expunged charges).

So strange. Thanks for the insight.