If the ACLU wins you may have to rent to felons from now on.

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I won't have to rent to convicted felons. I will find other ways to deny them. The creative LL always finds a way around silly regs like this.

People with seriously troubled criminal pasts have many other factors that are legitimate for denial. In other words, I have yet to receive an application from a convicted felon who had good credit, good LL references, sufficient income from a stable source, screened well online, and was cooperative with my processes. Most are too lazy to follow the application process, have multiple unpaid accounts, have no LL refs or poor refs, job hop continually, or have all kinds of crazy pictures on Facebook.

One foot in the rental door, one foot in the flipping door.

WMH you are right. But how would you consider each case so it is not discrimination?

The suit suggests that you could consider how long ago a conviction was, how potential renters conducted themselves after being found guilty, evidence that applicants have rehabilitated themselves.

But if you considered this it seems you would still discriminate. Since you would be renting to mainly white felons.

In Chesterfield county 20% are minorities. But 46% have been convicted of a felony.

WMH you are right. But how would you consider each case so it is not discrimination?

The suit suggests that you could consider how long ago a conviction was, how potential renters conducted themselves after being found guilty, evidence that applicants have rehabilitated themselves.

But if you considered this it seems you would still discriminate. Since you would be renting to mainly white felons.

In Chesterfield county 20% are minorities. But 46% have been convicted of a felony.

So you have to find someway to come up with a policy that would not disproportionately affect blacks.

Great, just one more reason.

I can see it now. You get the text from one of your renters: "I just read in the paper that the guy who moved in downstairs is a convicted felon, he's the one who committed murder on blah blah. Frankly I'm confortable with it and all, but my wife doesn't feel safe and she's expecting. I know its silly.... but we will be looking for another place she just won't live here. Moving out at EOM."

Another renter to first renter: "Moving out?"

"oh yeah my wife isn't comfortable here anymore. The guy that moved in Unit A is a felon. Its in the papers...."

*another text, another renter moveout****

People are blowing this out of proportion. You would not be required to rent to a convicted murderer in your multiunit. That isn't what is happening here.

The problem is coming up with the written criteria that would not be discrimination.

Unfair for this Apartment complex to have to be the test subject.

But maybe they will force HUD to actually define a criteria that they would consider acceptable and within the law.

Los Angeles Housing (rent control) and the City's / State's Section 8 make it mandatory to rent to felons that are Non-violent.

So a comprehensive background check reviled the fellow was a child molester. If I don't rent to him, then Section 8, the City and State won't make their commission. So the wanted to twist my arm to take him.

I refuse Violent Crimes - against people OR property. Assault, Burglary, etc. I don't care about a DUI or possession, but trafficking in hard drugs, no.

Especially when they lie about it: "I was charged with fighting with another girl, I had just turned 18." She was in fact charged with Assault while Inflicting Serious Bodily Injury...and then a minor possession charge too.

"I had a possession charge a few years ago." And a Conspiracy to Traffic in Heroin charge, he just forgot to mention that one.

"Just a few misdemeanors, when I was much younger." MULTIPLE arrests for Damage to Property (? I don't even know what that charge means, but it ain't good!)

So anyone who seems willing to inflict harm on other people, or on other's property: no.