Re: Prospective tenants sharing a bedroom - Landlord Forum thread 357255

Re: Prospective tenants sharing a bedroom by Garry (Iowa) on May 10, 2018 @17:07

You are a landlord, and you run a BUSINESS. You should NOT be imposing YOUR MORAL STANDARDS on other people. As long as it's LEGAL in your state to live together outside of marriage, and for men to marry men, and women to marry women, WHY should you care how they live in your RENTAL property?? All you need is for anybody living there, to pay you rent on time, keep the place up, and not cause problems for ANYONE. If all the people who applied, fit your BUSINESS qualifications, then rent to them. If at some point down the road they can't get along with each other, it's no different than if a couple married for 1 year, or 10-20 years, can't get along.

Living standards through out the whole country, say you can have 2 people per bedroom. Gender or age DOES NOT MATTER. In a 3 bedroom home, you can have up to 6 people living there. And "wear and tear" is EXPECTED in a place, no matter how many people are living there. There is absolutely NO WAY you can distinguish between W+T from 1 person, or 6. Imposing your moral standards in a business setting, opens you up to MAJOR civil rights violations. You CAN impose your moral standards if you rent out a room inside the home that you are living in, but not on one you rent out that you are not living in. Check with a local civil rights organization about all of this, BEFORE you have a major problem that may cost you thousands of $.

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Re: Prospective tenants sharing a bedroom by Anonymous on May 10, 2018 @17:44	[ Reply ]

If they don't agree with the lifestyle, they have ZERO obligation to rent to them. No they can't "Say its because they're gay", but they can find another reason. No I won't compare them to child molestors like the other poster, but if I don't agree with someone's lifestyle I'm not renting to them.

Re: Prospective tenants sharing a bedroom by Anonymous on May 10, 2018 @17:48	[ Reply ]

They should abide by what their God tells them to do. If their God forbids a man lay with another man, they shall obey the laws of their God. Not the laws of man.

Re: Prospective tenants sharing a bedroom by Jay Sinclair (Montana) on May 10, 2018 @19:47	[ Reply ]

Please leave God out of this. What if they dont believe in God at all? This is business and not a moral or religion decision. Many people out there are trying to save money and two men or women could rent a single room for both of them without been gay at all. And even if they are gay who cares? They are human with a heart, a soul and red blood created by the same God or evolution.

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