Michigan Online Real Estate Continuing Education (con ed)

Here is another example of a lawsuit that was recently filed by the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") to enforce the Fair Housing Act.  I try to post summaries of these types of cases in order to provide timely updates to real estate professionals about the "dos and don'ts" under the Fa...

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On May 29, 2008, the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") settled a fair housing disability discrimination case for $62,000 that was brought against an apartment complex and the on-site manager for refusing to allow residents to keep service dogs. United States v. Stealth Investments LLC; ...

Under  the Fair Housing Act, housing providers may not require persons with disabilities to pay extra fees or deposits as a condition of receiving a reasonable accommodation. Example 1: A man who is substantially limited in his ability to walk uses a motorized scooter for mobility purposes. He ap...

Under the Fair Housing Act, a resident or an applicant for housing makes a reasonable accommodation request whenever she makes clear to the housing provider that she is requesting an exception, change, or adjustment to a rule, policy, practice, or service because of her disability. She should exp...

A housing provider is entitled to obtain information that is necessary to evaluate whether a requested reasonable accommodation or reasonable modification may be necessary because of a disability. If a person’s disability is obvious, or otherwise known to the housing provider, and if the need for...

If someone disabled asks a housing provider to create or designate a parking space for them, generally the law is going to require the housing provider to create or designate the space if three conditions are met: (1) the resident must ask for a designated space; (2) creating or designating the p...

I was in the process of updating the online fair housing continuing education courses offered by my school (www.123ConEd.com), when I came across this Fair Housing Act case that was just settled two days ago (February 17, 2009). Because fair housing is such an important topic, I thought that I'd ...

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I was in the process of updating the online fair housing continuing education courses offered by my school (www.123ConEd.com), when I came across this Fair Housing Act case. In United States Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Princeton Property Management, Inc., and Masters Loop, LLC,...