Real Estate Industry is Biased Against Children?

Published by julia | Filed under Miscellaneous, Real Estate, Uncategorized

There is a pressing immediate concern that has emerged in key cities across the United States, the United Kingdom and other developed countries. There are reports that several residential properties and apartments for rents are not accepting potential occupants who have children, especially infants. While this is not a popular concern in the past, these days, parents are becoming alarmed and offended by the practice of several real estate or property agents, brokers and owners.

Recently, there is a well-celebrated case that happened in Brooklyn. A couple has sued several owners of apartments and brokers for allegedly practicing discrimination against children. The lawsuit alleged that the brokers and apartment owners refused to lease residential spacers to the couple because of the infant. At first, the wife was heavy and was expecting a child when the couple tried to rent an apartment. They were turned down. On the succeeding occasions, some apartments made clear that no children and infants were allowed on the residential spaces.

Many parents and couples have been complaining about similar cases in the past. Alas, not all of them were vocal enough to speak out and refute the inappropriate practices of the real estate and apartment owners and brokers. Now, the issue is being raised and is given heavier weight by the property and human rights industry.

You might ask, what is the main reason why apartment owners would not want their tenants to have and nurse children? The answer is quite simple and logical. Children are too playful. Apartment owners fear that children might incur damages and might cause problems to the property, to the neighbors and to the whole building or neighborhood in whole. Some owners want to avoid future cases and problems with regards to the lead contamination in the interiors of the apartments.

As for such apartment owners, most of them could readily relate and tell stories of troubles and setbacks in the past regarding former tenants’ children. If you would listen to such narrations, you would feel their burden and would readily sympathize. How about the rights of the parents and most especially the children?

State and national legislations in many countries should be geared towards resolving such an issue. If the problem might not be a big and immediate concern today, it would be soon. Many parents are now aiming to rent good and decent living quarters, apartments and condominiums for their whole family. What would happen if owners and brokers of such properties would turn them down and drive them away? It is high time real estate industry and governments solve this pressing issue. For the mean time, parents and children would have to endure such occurrences.

Julia Vakulenko is a licensed broker associate with Tampa4U.com Realty. She has one of the hardest working Tampa Real Estate team in Florida. Please feel free to copy any of Julia’s articles as long as you credit her and a link to her website. Include our Tampa Real Estate Blog to your regular reading as well.