It amazes me how ignorant Landlords and tenants both are.If you have elderly people or sick people renting from you, a power outage can be a matter of life or death even if it is only for a couple of hours. 

If they have prior felony or misdemenor convictions in a list of areas (sex offenses, drug-related charges, dishonesty / fraud, violence, child or elder abuse) they are not qualified.  

., You can use smartmove as an initial screening process, but if it is based solely on credit history, you will be excluding certain groups like young people and the elderly, who may make excellent tenants but do not have much of a credit history.

Many people, and especially elderly people, or people from another culture, can be afraid of having to learn something new and feel or look stupid.My job as a resident apartment manager, was to be a diplomat - as well as an enforcer. 

Is the complaining tenant elderly?

Hi everyone, I have a issue that came up this week.I got a call from DHS stating that an elderly tenant of mine had been moved to a "home" as she was not able to take care of herself.

The rocking is the same for an elderly person that has weak leg muscles.

Not that I am into that side of things as I have a property manager, however I have heard of others using it.legally, wouldnt 'play' with excuses to discriminate (ie, telling families their reference check didn't clear meanwhile 'preferring' studens for the unit or house) unless there was a bona-fide loophole to do so (ie, a statute allowing for an owner to Prefer Students for their Rental House because the owner is also a student living in the house). that's simply a risk i would not want to take unless i had a legit, legal reason for preferring students over any other family status for my rental house. labelling a rental property as 'Student Rental House' could have repercussions if not planned legally; ie back in college i stayed in 'Student Housing' but it was Off-Campus Housing OWNED by the university; i've never come across 'Student Housing' rentals unless it was a frat/sorority house or one owned or officially associated with local educational institutions. would love to see a loophole in your jurisdicton that allows for independent rental unit(s) to be dedicated to specifically students. ie, u could make a strong argument that for a 2 family house, the students in one unit might seem too noisy for a quiet, sensitive elderly coulple already living right below or smack next to them - or vice versa.good luck and by the way i do like the idea of what you are doing: at least considering mixed housing although yea there could be a conflict of interest and perhaps that could be your argument for preferring students since students might party often as compared to say, elderly families i guess?

I had one tenant (an elderly woman) give me a hug when i told her i was raising her rent by $25/ month, she expected a larger raise when i bought the property. 

I had a very elderly woman in the building I managed, and if I didn't see her for quite a while, I'd worry that she'd died in her apartment.