Come on Babe, 5 Bucks says you can't pee in this bottle.
Posted on 10/19/2004 7:23:50 AM PDT by misterrob
Don't discriminate against strippers.
That's the message the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission (search) is sending with a lawsuit against an Omaha real-estate company that refused to rent to a topless dancer.
The Richdale Group (search) had declined to lease an apartment to Charleigh Greenwood after she listed her occupation as a "dancer" at a Council Bluffs, Iowa, lounge.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I had a friend who had a LOT of stripper friends (honestly, not me). 90% of them were prostitutes (just some were pickier than others). Almost all strippers will do a Private Party with just one guy if the rate is good enough.
With that comes a cavalcade of strangers. This is a very real problem for a Landlord who wants to watch out for his tenants.
Youd prefer the roll of quarters ? LOL
By the Federal Equal Housing Act, which was enacted to counter your same argument when white landlords refused to rent to blacks. If he wants to publicly rent out his property, he cannot discriminate based on how someone makes a living or how they believe in God or how they vote. If I could do that, I wouldn't rent out my house to lawyers or Democrats.
If she is of such questionable morals, I'm sure he could have run a credit and background check to find a reason to deny her application. His basis for denial just won't hold up, and he deserves to be sued.
now had she listed "IRS agent" I would have said
,"sorry we're all broke, I mean, full."
Federal Housing Laws do not cover "occupation".
My wife and I are empty-nesters and good Christians - I have three extra bedrooms, each with a private bath, also a conntecting play room between two of those bedrooms - as an aside, I have always been a playful person - if the girls are cash short, I am willing to accept in-kind services. Think of me as a budding Baron Hilton looking for his long lost daughters, Parabiosis, Paradigm, and Paradisiac. I remain as ever, your humble servant.
I know the law, I am asking what right did they have to it? I know why the law was enacted.
I have several rentals and I don't rent to Lawyers, EVER.
LOL
Do you really think they would mow your grass and scrub your toliets.
We all make judgments every day. I don't condemn anyone. It's no one's business whether I, as a landlord (for example) determine that renting to a stripper is not something I judge to be beneficial or good for me, my family, and/or my neighbors.
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A case of freedom of association and the right to ones property.
The landlord has a seemingly good reason to refuse to rent to anyone except Caucasians.
Actually, so long as the landlord doesn't initiate force, fraud or coercion against his tenants or potential tenants he can refuse or accept any tenant regardless of the reason, even for no reason.
Each tenant and potential tenant is able to freely chose to walk away from the association. Same goes for the landlord. The freedom to chose includes the freedom to chose to deny.
It's wrong for a potential tenant/customer to enlist government agents to initiate force on their behalf to violate another person's property rights.
The moral line is drawn at the initiation of force.
"The oppressor no longer acts directly and with his own powers upon his victim. No, our conscience has become too sensitive for that. The tyrant and his victim are still present, but there is an intermediate person between them, which is the Government - that is, the Law itself. What can be better calculated to silence our scruples, and, which is perhaps better appreciated, to overcome all resistance? We all therefore, put in our claim, under some pretext or other, and apply to Government. We say to it, " I am dissatisfied at the proportion between my labor and my enjoyments. I should like, for the sake of restoring the desired equilibrium, to take a part of the possessions of others. But this would be dangerous. Could not you facilitate the thing for me? Could you not find me a good place? or check the industry of my competitors? or, perhaps, lend me gratuitously some capital which, you may take from its possessor? Could you not bring up my children at the public expense? or grant me some prizes? or secure me a competence when I have attained my fiftieth year? By this mean I shall gain my end with an easy conscience, for the law will have acted for me, and I shall have all the advantages of plunder, without its risk or its disgrace!" - Frederic Bastiat
Evictions take time, usually months, and cost money; better NOT to make the mistake in the first place. There is no telling how much money the landlord might lose and how much damage the tenant might do.
Finally, the apartments belong to landlord. He has (or shoud have) a right to do business as he see fit.
You sure picked an appropriate name!
Come on Babe, 5 Bucks says you can't pee in this bottle.
What does that mean?
A wise policy. :-)
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