"The Fair Housing Act prohibits me from providing that kind of information. I recommend you contact the school district, municipal government, or the local library."
Here's a gem.
When a person asks me about the racial/religious/etc make-up of a particular area or neighborhood, the acceptable answer is
Rep to the person who can pinpoint the hypocrisy in this "acceptable" response.
Here's a gem.
When a person asks me about the racial/religious/etc make-up of a particular area or neighborhood, the acceptable answer is
"The Fair Housing Act prohibits me from providing that kind of information. I recommend you contact the school district, municipal government, or the local library."
Rep to the person who can pinpoint the hypocrisy in this "acceptable" response.
Add this to the already considerable list of reasons why I never wanted to get into the landlord business. I don't know how my friends retain their sanity.It's continuing education time again.
And I just learned that failure to display the HUD-approved fair housing logo is an implicit admission that I am in violation of federal fair housing laws. No, I didn't forget my purple.
I. Hate. Stupid.
No, for real estate licensure. Wouldn't be so bad but they get things wrong. And it perpetuates ignorance. Drives me crazy.Is this part of the new registration regulations. I do not remember this when we had rentals. I had some issues with those we would not rent to for obvious reasons (thugs/drugs/bugs) but not the HUD thing.
The hypocrisy is that I am prohibited from sharing the information in an effort to prevent discrimination. However, all of the acceptable sources of information are government sources. So I can't "discriminate," but government can.Here's a gem.
When a person asks me about the racial/religious/etc make-up of a particular area or neighborhood, the acceptable answer is
Rep to the person who can pinpoint the hypocrisy in this "acceptable" response.