There is a big push right now from one of Philadelphia's newly elected councilwomen to identify and punish slum lords. 

., for an emotional 103 support animal or otherwise knowingly and willfully 104 misrepresents herself or himself, through conduct or verbal or 105 written notice, as using an emotional support animal and being 106 qualified to use an emotional support animal commits a 107 misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 108 775.082 or s. 775.083, and must perform 30 hours of community 109 service for an organization that serves individuals with 110 disabilities, or for another entity or organization at the 111 discretion of the court, to be completed in not more than 6 112 months.So the real teeth is to require that the certification must NOT be provided by health care practitioners whose  purpose is to provide certification for ESA for the individual in exchange for a fee AND if found misrepresentation it will require 30 days community service.I hope it gets passed soon.

The federal law states you cannot knowingly harbor an illegal immigrant and that you may be punished for doing so.

If this upcoming water claim is something that could have been prevented and was due to negligence, sometimes a property insurance company will punish you for this with a rate increase.

At least the law ends up supporting the main point of people being able to choose their roommates, and hopefully if someone ever does go to court for advertising their taste, they won't be punished harshly lol.

America just doesn't punish White collar scammers enough to make it stop the next one. 

And don't try to self-help, because if you do it wrong, you can be required to start all over, or the courts can punish you for doing it wrong.Try Inessa Shur of Shur Law Group

If the seller is "vulnerable" (a minority race, elderly, disabled, unsophisticated, etc) special provisions and punishments apply.

It doesn't matter how often they investigate/punish and it doesn't matter what the ramifications are.

@Matthew M.You certainly HAVE pointed out an important thing here -- for good landlords working in low-income/high-cashflow properties, people that have been trapped in the system through previous criminal activities that they have been punished severely for and have reformed, well, very often and sadly make the very best low-income tenants.