I doubt you could be prosecuted for a Fair Housing violation when marijuana use (medical or otherwise) is still a criminal offense according to federal law.

In CA for example, the penalties for usury, which can result from lending without a license, can be both civil and criminal.

. - Have you ever dealt with an adverse situation like property damage, fire or criminal activity on the property.

A tax lawyer is more what you'd be worried about if you're facing criminal prosecution for tax issues or if you are in a position of expanding into that REIT.

I provide the documents to collect each tenant information, such as legal full name, SSN, Job, emergency number, work, number of people living in the unit, and criminal background question.

This usually consists of a criminal background check, and infrequently a copy of your credit report.The experience requirement is often waived for attorneys or equivalent experience.

. - Get landlord references and call them - do a criminal background check - run reports on eviction history - ....then look at the credit score.

Here is a copy of the communication I received:To help reduce criminal activity and protect your account, we'll be making changes to our policy for cash deposits made at Wells Fargo branches.

I can search for the applicants by name and find criminal cases, civil cases, evictions, even traffic tickets.

My theory is that some percentage of the ones that say they will do criminal checks won't, either they don't know how, they forget, etc.