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We only own properties in generally nice areas and have rules about how many adults can live there. All are vetted and have to provide employment, SS#, etc. Mr. M personally picks up the rent checks every month and has a one on one relationship with the tenants. As a result, in 40 years of owning and renting multiple properties, we have only had three law suits and have prevailed on all three. We rarely have a vacant property and although once in a while a tenant will miss paying rent, he/she gets caught up because Mr. M works with them over time. He’s the best LL in the world. His tenants love him. My favorite story is the one eviction we had to file where the tenant owed $1500.00. He couldn’t pay. We hated to force him out. He was a disabled father with wife and three kids. We ended up agreeing to a judgment against him for the full amount, and gave him $500 to find another place. He promised to pay us the full money back when he got his lump sum disability. I knew we couldn’t collect on his disability so I assumed we would never see it. A year later we got a check for $2000.00.

Right. As a landlord myself, it’s not my job to determine the validity of a tenant’s residence
Its not your job... but it would be a pretty smart thing to do since its your investment they’re going to be living in..... What are you thinking?

I am a real bigot when it comes to renting, I discriminate heavily on character and behavior. If they are on govt assistance(a behavior) not rented too. If they have a job and good history they pass. Right now it is the employer in the US that is suppose to check them out but those laws are not being enforced, but I assume the laws are working. I have had more problems renting to locals than Hispanics

But it does raise the issue as to enforcement and laws. Immigration is not a simple issue. I have no problems with immigrants if they want to work, my ancestors were immigrants. We can not let everyone into our country just like we can’t give total healthcare to everyone.

I have a former gang member from CA working for me and he tells me that the laws are working in keeping criminals and gang members out of the US. He tells me that gang problems are becoming a very big problem in Mexico because they can’t get to the US.

So who are we to believe? The media? The comments told and repeated here at FR? My former gang member?

We don’t live in a perfect world and conservatives are just as idealistic (not realistic) as liberals. The “Invisible Hand” (Adam Smith) is at work and will override politics.