@Cameron McNultySo why doesn’t anyone want to move to one of the least educated, poorest states with the highest rate of religion in the country.

Educating landlords about the importance of treating all applicants with equality and fairness, irrespective of their race, religion, or any other protected characteristics, is paramount in fostering a positive, inclusive rental environment.

However, all the other protected classes (race, religion, etc.) would apply to each prospective tenant individually.  

Some believe it's the best invention after ketchup, others believe that Series LLCs never work, and you can find 500 variations in between.Recommendation: find ONE attorney who you believe to be competent, reasonable and responsive - and subscribe to whatever religion your attorney practices in regards to Series LLC.

We have rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, religion, speech, and the like.

Having a HUD voucher may be  a tie breaker with similar applicants but is not a shoe in by any means.This is what we put on our application, for another example:Our Criteria:We do not deny housing for race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, sexual orientation, marital status, or familial status.We do deny housing to individuals: when the application is not complete or accurate where there is not sufficient income/resources to pay rent and livewhere there is poor prior tenancy: evictions, violations, damage to rental property, poorly handled move outs, amounts are still owing to landlords or utilities.Criminal activity is at our discretion depending on severity, number of convictions, and how long ago.We do not go into much detail, especially since we don't charge for screening, but it gives them an idea and meets state requirements.

(H) For any person to do any of the following:(1) Refuse to sell, transfer, assign, rent, lease, sublease, or finance housing accommodations, refuse to negotiate for the sale or rental of housing accommodations, or otherwise deny or make unavailable housing accommodations because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, ancestry, disability, or national origin;"Also New York Executive Law prohibits housing discrimination based on military status.Again, occupation or military status may not be a Federally protected class, but that doesn't mean on the state level you won't run into problems.

We just bought a duplex in the Hudson Valley and are now living in one of the units. Our new tenant has been living there for 7 years and the previous landlord allowed smoking in the unit. We have a strict no smoking ...

@Michael Corona - Forgive me for posting contrary to your question, I know everyone has their preference on matters of finance and debt on which you cannot change a person's mind on such things any more than you can on politics or religion - but I can't help but wonder WHY you'd want to pay off 5.25% interest fixed rate 20 years loans early!?

Provided, of course, that the landlord isn’t discriminating based on any protected classification (i.e. race, religion, gender, etc).However, some individual cities (like Seattle for example) have passed ordinances that require landlords to use a “first come, first served” type of system and basically accept the first qualified applicant that applied.