Michigan Online Real Estate Continuing Education (con ed)

Under  the Fair Housing Act, housing providers may not require persons with disabilities to pay extra fees or deposits as a condition of receiving a reasonable accommodation. Example 1: A man who is substantially limited in his ability to walk uses a motorized scooter for mobility purposes. He ap...

Under the Fair Housing Act, a resident or an applicant for housing makes a reasonable accommodation request whenever she makes clear to the housing provider that she is requesting an exception, change, or adjustment to a rule, policy, practice, or service because of her disability. She should exp...

A housing provider is entitled to obtain information that is necessary to evaluate whether a requested reasonable accommodation or reasonable modification may be necessary because of a disability. If a person’s disability is obvious, or otherwise known to the housing provider, and if the need for...

If someone disabled asks a housing provider to create or designate a parking space for them, generally the law is going to require the housing provider to create or designate the space if three conditions are met: (1) the resident must ask for a designated space; (2) creating or designating the p...

I was in the process of updating the online fair housing continuing education courses offered by my school (www.123ConEd.com), when I came across this Fair Housing Act case that was just settled two days ago (February 17, 2009). Because fair housing is such an important topic, I thought that I'd ...

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I was in the process of updating the online fair housing continuing education courses offered by my school (www.123ConEd.com), when I came across this Fair Housing Act case. In United States Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Princeton Property Management, Inc., and Masters Loop, LLC,...

Are there any instances when a housing provider can deny a request for a reasonable accommodation without violating the Fair Housing Act? Yes. A housing provider can deny a request for a reasonable accommodation if the request was not made by or on behalf of a person with a disability or if there...

As a real estate professional, you are probably aware that are lots of "secret shoppers" scouting open houses and rental vacancies trying to catch real estate agents in a fair housing violation. Those "secret shoppers" are fair housing testers.  Fair housing testing is used in measuring the pract...

Under the Fair Housing Act, a housing provider cannot refuse housing to someone who is disabled because of their disability. Just as important, the law requires housing providers to accommodate a person’s disability by changing or modifying a rule or policy or practice when doing so is necessary ...