In fact, I advise clients to add crime, sex offender and other criteria to that list, regardless of the neighborhood demographics.

Property owners/managers are subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibits "any preference, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make such preference, limitation or discrimination."

Registered sex offenders would be another good thing to show right on an overlay.  

She advised that good credit, good payment history, and none sex offender is really all I need to be concerned with. 

Units will be so assigned that:Children age four and under will not be allotted an additional bedroom with any other child or a parent, regardless of age or sex;Two children between the ages of five and seventeen of the same sex will not be allotted an additional bedroom;Two children between the ages of five and seventeen of the opposite sex will be allotted an additional bedroom, although they may share a bedroom at the request of the household.Adults (over age eighteen) of the same sex will not be allotted an additional bedroom;Adults (over age eighteen) of opposite sexes who are spouses or co-heads will not be allotted an additional bedroom;Adults (over age eighteen) of opposite sexes who are not spouses or co-heads of household will be allotted an additional bedroom although they may share a bedroom at the request of the household.A single head of household parent will be allotted an additional bedroom for with his/her child over age four, although they may share a bedroom at the request of the household.Exceptions to the largest permissible apartment size may be made in case of an approved reasonable accommodations for a person with disabilities.An unborn child will be counted as a person in determining apartment size.

All of the tenants know about the sex offender and are threatening to leave.I'm considering giving a 60-day notice for the family but wanted to know if anyone else has faced this situation or has any guidance on it.Thanks!

He said that the 14 year old brother had moved in an underage girlfriend; the tenant had moved in a boyfriend (not the store manager, but another one); and that the entire group was having group sex with the tenant's two little children present AND that the 14 year old was selling marijuana.

My bet is on a 450 pound welfare baby momma smoker with her sex offender sugar daddy over at all hours of the day and night.

Pacify them with drugs, liquor, sex and shiny objects and they'll never think any further than tomorrow.

Result: bankrupt, skipped on prior landlord, collections, foreclosure, 28 criminal appearances including sex crime…a real sweetheart.