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Benjamin Dutil
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Advertising home for rent targeting handicap/wheelchair tenants

Benjamin Dutil
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Windham, ME
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We recently purchased and moved into a house that is set up for someone in a wheelchair. We are moving into an RV full-time and want to keep the house in our rental portfolio. Our question is how can we advertise the property to someone in a wheelchair or someone who needs these "special" features without getting into some discriminatory issues? The house isn't so "specialized" that it would turn off potential abled-bodied tenants but does have a vertical platform lift in the garage, a 60"x60" curb-less shower, a sloped front kitchen sink base, roll-under bathroom sink, elevated 21" toilet, grab bars, 36" doors throughout and a W/D hook-ups on the main level. We don't want to discriminate but we really want to help someone in need of special housing. Thank you in advance for your advise!

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Nathan Gesner
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Nathan Gesner
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Quote from @Benjamin Dutil:

Advertise the house as you normally would and include a description of the handicap features available. That's not discriminating; you are sharing the same information to everyone and making it available to everyone equally.

It would be nice to find a handicap person that could take advantage of those features, but it's also nice to find a young family, an old family, a retired couple, a single woman that lives quietly on her own, etc. Don't narrow your market by trying to find one type of renter.

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