Denial of applicant on expunged criminal charges??

[Lacee Beitler]

Buckle up. You can’t make this stuff up. We have an applicant who had the following 4 charges expunged from her record: -aggregated assault -burglary -criminal attempt - CRIMINAL HOMICIDE -conspiracy- aggravated assault Sounds like a model citizen, right? Needless to say, we don’t want to rent to her. Her application otherwise checks out (credit score, income, etc) so we can’t deny her on anything else. So how can we legally deny her, because she wasn’t convicted of those crimes (and she has the expungement letter). Thanks!

[Michael Boyer]

Interesting scenario for sure.

Beats my most interesting criminal charge which was a felony escape from prison! 

I figured if the applicant could get break out prison, he'd find a way out of the lease and it was an easy denial....