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Can you use the law to punish someone for not responding to an email from 21 year old Mohammed asking if he can rent your apartment? Renting out an apartment c
by stef25 12y ago
Can you use the law to punish someone for not responding to an email from 21 year old Mohammed asking if he can rent your apartment?
Renting out an apartment can lead to some very difficult situations (basically because the law isn't going to help you get out of them).
Everyone I know that rents out properties here in Belgium applies a very strict filter when selecting tenants; I would do the same and not feel bad about it for a second.
- rmc 12y agoCan you use the law to punish someone for not responding to an email from 21 year old Mohammed asking if he can rent your apartment? Yes. If you will not rent out your apartment to someone based on their ethnicity/race, that's illegal. If you don't like it, get out of the apartment rental business. It's just so hard to prosecute people for it.
- stef25 12y agoRealistically nobody would know if you're using ethnicity as the basis of your decision right?
- lafar6502 12y ago... but certainly someone could accuse you of being a racist because you didn't rent to them. So it's quite natural you as a landlord would prefer to have only candidates of same race and same nationality (not difficult at all, just don't respond to anyone with a foreign name) Try forcing more 'anti-discrimination' laws and people will rather keep the appartment unoccupied than risk being taken to court
- rmc 12y agoIn some regions (e.g. EU) ethnicity is defined as the same thing as race for anti-discrimination law.