Avoid 9 Discrimination Pitfalls When Tenants Seek Unit Transfers

While it may seem like routine business, responding to transfer requests may have significant fair housing implications.

Let’s play a quick game of fair housing word association in the multifamily leasing context:

Housing discrimination.

For many, this phrase summons up images of landowners seeking to avoid leasing their property to persons of particular races, nationalities, or other protected characteristics. And that, in a sense, is rental housing discrimination in its traditional form.