Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bonnie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!wjh From: wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery) Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.legal Subject: Re: Breaking Lease on Apt. Message-ID: <533@bonnie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 14:46:36 EDT Article-I.D.: bonnie.533 Posted: Tue Aug 20 14:46:36 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 00:26:19 EDT References: <858@mtuxo.UUCP> <614@ihu1m.UUCP> <679@terak.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.consumers:2812 net.legal:2127 > > Too bad, but the renter is at a disadvantage from the word > > go. > > As a former renter and now a (reluctant) landlord, I'd like to > correct this statement. > > "The honest renter or honest landlord is at a disadvantage from > the word go." > > Unfortunately for the landlord, he has very little power to select his > tenants because the "equal housing opportunity" laws are so broad. If > someone shows up, offers to rent the property, and provides the required > deposits, the landlord doesn't have much basis on which he can refuse to > rent them the property. > Can't the landlord insist on (and check) references--previous landlord, employer, etc.? Bill Hery