Re: Zero English skills - Landlord Forum thread 324511

Re: Zero English skills by Katiekate (New York) on September 16, 2014 @10:34

Non English speakers are not a protected class. I do not rent to non English speakers. The confusion is just too much

Also...should it come to a court case...a strong argument can be made that the agreements were not valid because they didnt understand them. (No contract can be enforced if the person signing it couldn't understand it). I had this come up with an English speaker!!! He never finished even middle school and therefore was to be judged incapable of understanding what he signed. Geez...it took an attorney more than and hour to drag out of him that he didnt finish 8th grade because he went directly to Cornell University. But..I learned this lesson well, if they are poorly educated they could get out of your lease too. Lots of communication between landlord and tenant is verbal or written in a non formal manner..are you going to hire someone to read over all your messages to be sure they say what you want?

PS...I used one of those programs to translate a document (English to German) then had a German national read the result. He couldn't stop laughing at some of the nonsense it created.

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