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Results (157)
Ivan Jenkins Applying Fair Housing Standards to Criminal Records?!?
12 April 2016 | 12 replies
Discriminatory Effects Liability and Use of Criminal History to Make Housing Decisions A housing provider violates the Fair Housing Act when the provider’s policy or practice has an unjustified discriminatory effect, even when the provider had no intent to discriminate.Under this standard, a facially-neutral policy or practice that has a discriminatory effect violates the Act if it is not supported by a legally sufficient justification.
Jaime O'Gorman Fair Housing Act and Smokers
21 April 2018 | 13 replies
This includes people with facial tattoos, dirty cars, smokers, people with pets, felons, people with bad credit, five friends, people with loud cars, people with no jobs, etc.The reason we recommend you write your policies down is to avoid a discrimination complaint.
Thomas S. APPLICANTS YOU WON"T RENT TO.
14 March 2016 | 53 replies
Off the top of my head and keeping in mind that we all have standards that may not be strictly legal would you reject some of these :Neck and facial tattoos, single guys, recently separated women, single mothers, welfare, restaurant workers, nationalities know to cook offensive smelling food, smokers, low income immigrants, bikers, tattoo artists, recreational drug users, prostitutes. others.Or based on human rights laws etc. is everyone welcome as long as they pass basic screening standards. 
Curt Davis Profile Picture
20 December 2017 | 41 replies
If my picture and name were open to every random Google searcher and facial recognition software out there - I would probably not be that honest.There is an unlimited amount of information that would not be shared if everyone had their full profile up.Some of you have said some pretty rough and bad things about tenants, do you want that tenant to find your posts with a simple Google search and then bring itto the judge and say - "See what he is saying about me" - even if you did not mention names.Do I want random people to know how many homes I can buy for cash?
Joseph Rios Having your picture on a business card?
8 October 2017 | 8 replies
Facial recognition and recall is more powerful than words.
Steven McPherson Who here has started from scratch?
3 August 2021 | 103 replies
Then at 21 I had a major surgery that left me unable to walk, nearly blind, deaf in one ear, a facial paralysis and medical bills that exceeded 600k.
Kevin D. Landlording Advice
2 October 2015 | 15 replies
We always try to use a pleasant tone and facial expression, even if what we are saying boils down to, "Go jump in a lake."
Diana Gonzalez Where to start
18 June 2015 | 9 replies
You will have a lot of your questions answered by giving it a good read.I have heard that you should never trust a man with facial hair, but Brandon seems like an OK guy.Much success!
Charlie Moore How To deny applicants... legally... effectively......
10 May 2019 | 13 replies
If you don't like tenants with facial tattoos, that may be a legitimate reason for refusing them.
Ryan Ulrich Marketing Another Business in Your Airbnb
9 October 2019 | 14 replies
It's skin care, so we were thinking of placing 1 mini-facial per guest in the bathroom for them to use if they want.