I publish my qualifications and they are the same for everyone. there is no such law any where in the USA that you can get sued for rejecting a convicted felony or a eviction in the past you cannot reject for color, sex, sexual orientation or religion and so forth just make your rules clear and they apply for all and you never end up in court for such a thing. by the way you cant just tell them you just changed your mind that mean if you rent the apt to someone else any time over the next month your going to court to fight for a discrimination charge. make your own rules and stick with them for all.

When I searched your link, it specifically states:"However, the landlord cannot base the difference in rent on the tenant's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or family status.

I have a tenant (single female) on the 1st floor who has only been there a few weeks and has sex quite loudly around 2am when I am trying to sleep after putting in a 12-16hr workday.

The Fair Housing Act has 7 protected classes: race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, and familial status.

As Marcia mentions, violent criminals are probably ones you would just decline automatically; I would add manufacture and /or distribution of controlled substances and sex offenders at a minimum - consider adding things where repeat offense is very likely or could result in serious trouble for you as the landlord. 

You just have to make sure you're not approving/declining an applicant based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, age, familial or marital status, handicap or disability or sexual orientation.  

What if that felony that they have just been convicted of requires them to register as a sex offender?  

We do not discriminate against persons because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

Well, in CA anyway, we're required to give the Megan's Law database info in our leases, so tenants are aware of it, and can look up sex offenders on their own. 

And was glad to see them move out :-)For instance, I routinely ignored angry voicemails from tenants about how they could hear other tenants having loud sex.