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9 November 2023 | 6 replies
The Fair Housing Act - which applies to private landlords too - makes 'it is illegal to discriminate in housing on the basis of a person's race, color, national origin, religion, sex (incuding gender identity and sexual orientation), familial status, or disability."
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9 November 2023 | 3 replies
You need to take out age, familial status and sex from this post as those are potential violations of fair housing.
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2 October 2023 | 2 replies
Quote from @Bao Nguyen: I would like to begin with wholesale to get more experience.
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11 March 2020 | 31 replies
If there are minors recorded, you will likely have to register as a sex offender FOR LIFE.How does that sound?
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11 October 2023 | 7 replies
I have text messages where there is also physical threats and accusing crazy gross stuff about how myself and family member are having sex together and how we have no soul and this crazy person has to protect the building from us.
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28 September 2023 | 16 replies
You could be more specific....like on the criminal part...no felonies in past 10 years...no sex offenders...
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24 January 2023 | 39 replies
I'm actually working on a beachfront condo project where my local partners and I are actually going to be the developers and sellers and our plan is to include financing as part of the package, which I think would be a first in the Dominican Republic.Regarding locations:Las Terrenas: big yes; that's where I'm the most active in the countryCabarete: yes but less potential than Las Terrenas I thinkSosua: no because of the sex tourism
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12 October 2023 | 21 replies
I think given the housing crisis of today and the need for housing I would say that income, credit checks and criminal background checks and sex offender background checks are fair games for determining an applicant for housing. if landlords start to want to play employer and start screening social media posts as part of an applicant’s acceptance for housing, then it’s only exasperating the homeless crisis.
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26 September 2023 | 14 replies
Because of their poor management, they had nightmare after nightmare.In a two-year period of time, they had two park-owned homes burn down, a sex offender move in, high vacancy, multiple abandoned cars and to top it all off like most GURUS they believed they could effectively manage a mobile home park five hours from their home with no systems in place.For example, I asked the owner, "How much do you pay the handyman for the work he has done for you?"
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10 July 2023 | 15 replies
Ever heard the term "soliciting a prostitute", that is asking to buy sex.