My job was to collect as much as possible and get rid of the problem tenants.My favorite excuse for not having the rent was from a 60-something year old woman who was really proud of her newly tattooed eyelids, so she wouldn't have to apply eyeliner anymore. 

Those gangs of Mexican daycare police will surely find this woman babysitting for neighbors, and will rat her out to the authorities, inviting the city inspectors into their "hood."

Here is a case from the HUD website from 2013 for a Virginia company that had to pay a $82,500 settlement because they refused to rent to a Hispanic woman who didn't speak English.The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in the rental of housing on the basis of national origin.

If you had a single family home that you did not live in for rent, you could not differentiate between a man or woman, but since you live there, you are well within your rights to limit it to a female or many other criteria that would make you feel safer.  

As a woman, that little rim around the sink would not be acceptable for me to put my things.If she's a good tenant, it would cost you much more to have a turnover in tenants, than to have a happy tenants, that stays longer.

Causing this landlord any type of legal grief may cause this woman to vamp up her game plan and that is to get this person, her husband, kids and her dog out of her property.Note that the landlord raised the rent $300 dollars per month - means she is serious about getting paid or getting someone out of her property.

The man has 20+ years at two water treatment companies, and the woman is a tenured teacher.

So, I rented to a woman who had welfare (which on it's own wasn't the issue and can't be discriminated against in CA), but who also had bad credit.  

Plus, it makes it easier to say no to the ones you like - but should say no to.I feel for that single working woman - I was one, too.  

One unit has a woman on disability for osteoarthritis who has been there for 10 years, the second unit is her 30 yr old daughter, also on disability for MS, and the third unit is occupied by an older woman who is rumored to have an interest in moving out.