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Re: renting to families only
by Anonymous
on May 25, 2017 @18:28
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You cannot discriminate based on familial status.
However, your screening criteria should be that each adult must make over 3 times the rent on their own. You should also be very clear that your lease holds them all jointly and severally liable and what exactly that means.
That's usually enough to make them rethink their plans.
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Re: renting to families only
by Anonymous
on May 25, 2017 @18:30
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"Your screening criteria should be that each adult must make over 3 times the rent on their own."
Finding tricky ways to discriminate based on familial status is still discrimination on familial status.
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Re: renting to families only
by Anonymous
on May 25, 2017 @18:48
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That's not tricky. Our criteria is the same whether it's one person or 10. All adults over 18 are on the lease agreement. 3X's the rent. Credit score of 750 or more. Joint and several liability.
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Re: renting to families only
by Anonymous
on May 25, 2017 @18:53
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By the nature of this, you're making it harder for families to rent, or for roommates to rent. It's thinly-veiled discrimination.
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Re: renting to families only
by Anonymous
on May 25, 2017 @20:15
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This is a possible discrimination issue under the "Disparate Impact Rule" of the Fair Housing Act. In that such requirements "adversely affect one group of people of a protected characteristic more than another", even though rules applied the landlord are on their face, are neutral, applying to everyone.
As it's applied in this case, a couple where one spouse does not work due to a disability or is a caregiver for another would not qualify, even if one spouse made more than three times the rent.
A single parent whose makes three times the rent, but has two children over eighteen, who are living at home but attending school would be denied under such rental requirements.
Such strict requirements can be grounds for a discrimination charge, which a landlord would be very hard pressed to defend against.
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Re: renting to families only
by Geoff (NY)
on May 29, 2017 @13:55
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There are some communities that still have laws on the books and still enforce the limiting the number of non-related adults that can reside in a single family residence. It has been successfully defended in the court system as the means to prevent illegal rooming houses.
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