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 ...
Tough to confirm your income in that business ...
Like I said, stereotyping your renters is wrong.
Section 8 housing is state subsidized housing in Michigan. There are very strict rules about what landlords have to do and while it is a good way to get older apartment complexes rented and newer complexes constructed, there are definite pros and cons
As for profiling, we do it all the time. We are not mind readers and thus we make judgements on bases of probability. In case of stripping, the behavior is offensive enough that I would not want them on my property, certainly not near children.
If you are a parent, you have to be double careful about their friends and the people you children are exposed to.
You are right. Evictions take at least 90 - 120 days and are a huge pain in the butt. We used to do 25-30 eviction notices per month, and about 8-10 actual evictions. Put that with the over 50 other court actions per month and let's just say I knew every single person at the court by name and brought cookies to the baliff and his staff every month so I would get first priority for evictions.
I would have to disagree with you there.
Governments exist to end evil.
That kind of discrimination is evil.
I think that is one of the key differences between conservatives and libertarians.
Shalom.
Yeah, I have two friends who married strippers and they are totally perverted and debased. Damn them for fools!
And this is why the FEHA is an abomination. It represents a taking by government. I no longer have control over my own property.
Now I'll admit that refusing to rent to otherwise qualified renters due to skin tone or nationality is stupid but it should still be legal.
If I were Jewish and lost my family in the holocaust the last thing I'd want is a bunch of Germans renting from me.
If I thought Polish people looked funny and had names that I couldn't pronounce and didn't want them around then I should be able to keep them off my property. (For the record, I am Polish, do look funny and have a name that is hard to pronounce. That's why I bought my own property!)
If I can't stand the smell of Korean or Indian cooking and don't want them polluting my property I should be able to deny them.
If I thought that blacks used too much skin creme that smelled bad then I should be able to keep them off my property.
The key point is that it's MY property.
(Notice that I am an equal opportunity bigot, I hate everyone!)
Disagree ArGee, It's stupid but not evil.
That's like saying someone who doesn't like brocolli is evil. It's all personal preference.
So if we're renting a room at our house and a stripper comes along I can tell my wife, "I have to, honey, it's the law.".
I was with you right up until the underlined part. If you were forced to live in the same building with any nationality that cooks and eats curry three times a day, I'm betting you would sing a different tune.
Sometimes nationality can be a valid discriminator.
Male dancer?
You are quite correct, of course. Occupation is not on the list.
However, never underestimate the ability of a dedicated attorney intent upon forcing his or her view of the world ion the rest of us to find some way to shoehorn what most of us would call "good judgment" into "illegal discrimination".
To wit -- (from the Fox News Story) "The NEOC in its lawsuit said such a refusal discriminates against women because labor statistics show women make up 98 percent of dancers in the state and 96 percent of dancers nationwide.
GOOD GOD, MY EYES!!
I'm BLIND!
EXAXTLY!!! What landlord would reject a STRIPPER!!
When I was a little girl my next door neighbor was a nice blonde haired lady in the next apartment. I considered her my friend and spent a lot of time visiting her. My dad didn't tell me until years later that she worked at a "massage parlor". For some reason she had brought the subject up in conversation and had said to him, "Don't let my dad know." Not a if he had ever met her dad. But that was her big worry.
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