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Fair Housing Pit Falls: Charging Tenants a Fee to Process Accommodations Requests

Designated parking spaces for mobility-impaired tenants is another frequent source of reasonable accommodations complaints and legal mistakes. Consider this common scenario.

Spot the Discrimination Mistake

A landlord is ready, willing, and able to provide designated parking and other reasonable accommodations for mobility-impaired individuals, provided that those individuals are willing to pay the costs of processing the request.

Pitfall: The ban on charging a fee for granting a requested reasonable accommodation also applies to charging fees or deposits for processing an accommodations request.

Tenant Screening - Secrets To Getting A Rental Application Processed Fast!

By Rebekah Near, CEO of Orca Information, Inc. 
Tenant & Employment Background Screening Company Reviewing a rental application BEFORE submitting it to your tenant screening company for process seems to no longer be “cool." Landlords and Property Managers are being sold the business model of "hands-off the rental application” process. All the Landlord needs, is to buy the "savvy" property management software. It does it all! Just direct the applicant to the management company website. Once on the website, "the applicant does all the work of applying". You, the Landlord get to sit back and wait for the results. No interaction (or very little) with the applicant is needed. I mean after all, saving you time means saving you money, 
right? Not necessarily!
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