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Originally Posted by ScizzMoney
Strongly agree with this. The current renter I have is worth keeping happy and keeping as a tenant, rather than squeezing them for an extra couple hundred a month.
Just giving advice, the advice is coming from the perspective of experience from both myself and uncle (who manages multiple apartments, each with hundreds of units). There are more types of people he prefers to not rent to (teenage men, multiple people who are not family, families with multiple children under 5, etc.) and that is simply based off of the number of noise complaints and frequency of late payments. Noise and late payments historically for him from those groups, including single mothers, are higher than everyone else. That last sentence from you was uncalled for.
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Maybe you're right about my reaction, but lumping all single mothers and saying "DONT RENT TO SINGLE MOTHERS" is not advice, its stereotyping a group of people that may already be in a difficult situation. Its one thing to explain that they have had a higher frequency of issues as renters in your experience, but imagine some wonderful successful woman needs a place to rent with her kid, would have been a perfect tenant to the OP and he took your "advice" to heart. Theres LOTS of amazing single mothers out there and to lump them all in like that is shameful.
As said, people should be judged as individuals and you will have a lot better chances of finding someone who fits perfectly as a renter.