[dynimagelv]

Good students usually have good parents.

[TheShadow7478]

plus Im betting that isn't legal. (and you can just about legally bet on anything in Vegas)

[dynimagelv]

so long as your are NOT using color etc. as a deciding factor, I think it would be.......there are still no laws restricting free choice.

[papatoony]

Excuse my ignorance, but are hedge fund managers really in the business of being landlords?

[TheGreatCurve]

Originally Posted by papatoony

Excuse my ignorance, but are hedge fund managers really in the business of being landlords?

The hedge funds and investment firms will hire local property managers to manage the rental properties. They will just sit back and collect rent checks for their investors and take their cut.

[BadBeat]

So when it comes to housing, we can't discriminate based on race, creed, gender, or sexual orientation and I'm in agreement with that but are we allowed to discriminate based on criminal record? I mean could a community require that prospective residents not have committed a serious crime in say the last ten years? That doesn't seem unreasonable to me but I doubt that it would be legal.

[TheAdmiral]

The problem with the report card criteria is that you can get into all sorts of no win arguments. Do minorities tend to have lower scores? If an otherwise legal criteria has disproportionate impact it can be against the law.

Crime criteria can have a similar problem. So don't go there.

[Fastrudy]

Seems perfectly reasonable to use some dicrimination skills on a prospective renter. Maybe you don't want a renter who has a full-facial tatoo or lists their occupation as prostitute. Seems to me, as a landlord, you can be very discriminating in your choice as long as you don't break Federal laws. Age, sex, sexual preference, disability or marital status. Criminal record and report card grades seem like fair game to me.

[von949]

All of the properties I manage are in less than ideal areas of the valley. So basically I have to use a unique, personal, instinct driven judgement. Most times I get it right. I once disqualified a potential tenant because he would not look me in the eyes or face. Hardly looked up at all. Kept scratching his head like he was nervous. Had a decent back ground and held a steady security job for over 2 years. Also had the full deposit. For some reason during the interview I kept sensing trouble.

On the flip side of that, we currently rent to a single mother of 3 kids with 3 different fathers. She only works part time and receives child support from 2 of the three fathers.(last time we checked) And she asked if she could pay the deposit in installments. Around the holidays she didn't even work. She was on the section 8 waiting list about 2 months before we leased to her. Don't know her status now. In 10 months she has never been late with her rent and has since paid the full deposit.

You just never know.

[Willy702]

Discrimination rules are basically you have to allow everyone to look at and apply if they choose, but there really arent requirements as to who you choose. You arent supposed to blatantly discriminate in your final decision , but frankly who is going to know? I am not encouraging discrimination or buying into stereotypes, but this the reality.