New Tenant Screening Laws in Minneapolis, soon coming to ...

[Reinaldo Lopez]

I got this from Avail community ( https://community.avail.co/ )

A new legal update regarding tenant screening was just unanimously passed by the Minneapolis City Council.

• Landlords may not use misdemeanor convictions older than 3 years for screening tenants
• Landlords may not use felony convictions older than 7 years for screening tenants
• Landlords may not use other worse convictions older than 10 years for screening tenants (I’m foggy on exactly what that means though)
• Credit Score may not be used as a criteria to approve/deny a prospective tenant   ...WHAT!!!!!!
• Security deposits are now capped at one-month’s rent

What do you think of these changes?

https://www.fox9.com/news/minn...

This is a very anti landlord move all because of what movement .......? yes that .. 

[Mack Benson]

That actually went into effect last year, the article you link from Fox9 was from September 2019. At the time there were many conversations about it but the investors in Minneapolis weren't overly concerned and the prices in Minneapolis have continued to rise along with rents. Properties are still being sold at record prices even in light of the recent upheaval and crime within the city. 

The St. Paul City Council decided to one up Minneapolis earlier this summer so we'll see how that goes across the river.

In the end I think these regressive anti-landlord laws will only serve to hurt those who they are meant to protect.