“ I rent to illegal aliens because of -fill in the blank-“

[Keith A.]

This is not a political post so please leave politics out of it. This is about landlord posts I see on here quite a bit about whether or not to rent to illegals.

Let me tell you something, if you are knowingly renting to people that are here illegally, you are part of the problem. If your excuse for doing it is because they pay on time , then you are exploiting them. If you justify it because of some saintly reason, you are full of fudge. If you do it because they stay for years because of lack of choices, then you are greedy. If you wind up with someone that gets deported or arrested for other crimes, then it’s your fault for not doing a SSN background check and thus seeing they have no SSN.

What should you have done? There are so many people trying to get housing that are here on Visa. THEY have a dream. THEY are stable and pay on time. They are assigned a SSN to check. They waited for this dream. Be apart of making their dream a reality.

I’ve rented to people here on Visa and felt horrible hearing how hard it was for them to find housing that wasn’t is a D class neighborhood. It’s sad what people will do for money. Illegal is illegal.

That’s my worldly landlord advice to anyone considering the scenario. There is no shortage of legal, stable renters in this country.

[Bjorn Ahlblad]

I only rent to those who I can screen properly and who pass.