Are you discriminating against Section 8 Tenants?
I follow a blog for real estate investors, Biggerpockets.com. Today, it had an article 8 Myths about Section 8, Corrected: Here’s the Profitable Truth. Landlords often have many questions about renting to tenants who received Section 8 subsidies. The basics of a Section 8 tenancy are that a tenant and the landlord enter into a […]
How many people can you allow to live in a unit?
Limits on the number of people living in a unit are very common and often depend on the number of bedrooms, bathrooms, and size of the units. However, before making a limit on the number of people living in a unit, a landlord should be aware that a low limit could make the landlord subject […]
Fair Housing and Advertising for Landlords
Under the Fair Housing Act and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act, advertisements to rent or sell housing must not discriminate or state a preference even if the housing is exempt from fair housing laws. Generally, advertisements must not state a words that refer or relate to a particular class to describe the housing unit, […]
April is Fair Housing Month
April is Fair Housing Month, so I will be writing a few articles on how Federal and California fair housing laws apply to landlords, real estate brokers, property managers and other real estate professionals who lease property. The Federal Fair Housing Act prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon a tenant or potential tenant’s race, color, national […]
Making a Reasonable Accommodation to a Landlord’s No Pets Policy
Although a landlord can prohibit tenants having pets completely from a property, the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) requires a landlord to make a reasonable accommodation to a “No Pets Policy.” There are two types of pets that commonly fall within a reasonable accommodation under the ADA and that landlords encounter, a “service animal” and […]
Ninth Circuit Finds Newport Beach Ordinance Regulating Group Homes Discriminatory
The Ninth Circuit recently found that Newport Beach’s regulation of sober living homes violated the Fair Housing Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, and the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution because the ordinance practically prohibited new group homes for recovering alcoholics and drug abusers from opening […]
