If you rent out a property in Oakland, you can't legally discriminate against someone with a criminal background, except a sex offender - there's a bit more protection if you're house hacking and live on the property.

either way, good luck with the project, I know WACO and Baylor University in particular, where I do believe they once banned sex while standing as they felt it might lead to Dancing :)

BTW, he and his roommate were registered sex offenders, with minor children by force, abuse of authority. 

The challenging tenant irrelevantly refers to the other tenant’s sex life when confronting them.Multiple tenants have independently expressed similar complaints about the challenging tenant.Reading the lease ( Copy of Lease ) more carefully, we realize now that it could be stronger in areas of being able to terminate the lease - a lesson learned for future tenant leases.The challenging tenant’s lease ends in August 2024, but we were wondering if there is anything that we can do to terminate her lease early based on the lease that we signed.

This is an average condition house for the neighborhood and area.I have set my screening requirements as:600-650+ credit score3 times monthly rentNo evictions, violent, or sex crimes6+ months of job historySome form rental references.I have an applicant who meets all requirements except I am unsure if he will have rental references because he told me he's couch surfing right now.  

The Fair Housing Act is what applies to privately owned property (with the exceptions Bruce listed above) and it forbids discrimination against prospective tenants because of their disability as well as race, religion, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), skin color, familial status, and national origin. 

It is inevitable that when you are in the MHP/Affordable Housing space you will have applicants who are Felons, Drug Addicts, Sex Offenders and have poor credit.Here is how I handle each of them:Felonies: It depends on the felony but we don't allow any felon that had the crime occur within the last 2+ years and I am very careful about this.Drugs: I try to be compassionate but I have found that any recent drug offenses lead to a lot of bad behavior.

In Oakland, you can't discriminate against someone with a criminal background (with the exception of a sex offender). 

Have to screen for sex offenders (Airbnb does this for you, supposedly, but most other platforms don't). 

Purchase price: $888,000 Cash invested: $500,000 We bought an old dilapidated 33 unit that had 8 sex offenders living in it, and 40% of the tenants were not paying or 9 months or more behind.