re: "I don't think NY is unusual in the non discrimination laws, but need to investigate."
What, you think it's right because everyone else does it too?
Socialism has crept into the rental market in a big way - from the regulation of how a landlord chooses his tenants, to how he can get them out, to how he can collect damages, to how much rent he can charge.
Believe me, the business of being a landlord is brutal and should NOT be entered into casually, especially with todays' (and tomorrow's) predatory government.
Thanks to government, it isn't even worth being a landlord in many states, except perhaps on a very large scale - where the landlord has his own handymen, attorneys, etc.
Is there any other "private" property where government has seen fit to so thoroughly invade the owners' rights???
BTW, you *do* understand where all this ultimately leads, don't you? Government-managed housing, ridiculously high rents and/or slumlords. I'm sure glad that I won't be a tenant for too much longer.
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