{"id":130,"date":"2009-01-15T11:02:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T04:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/temp-blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2017-08-29T15:45:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:45:01","slug":"a-glimpse-at-fair-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/a-glimpse-at-fair-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Glimpse at Fair Housing and How to Administer in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Fair housing may or may not be a term that you ve heard before, and probably even less so in Mexico. Unless you ve been exposed to real estate then you probably never thought twice about what this term truly meant and chances are, it has not affected you I have been writing about several &#8220;Mexico Real Estate Rental&#8221; themes including (<a title=\"Mexico Rentals and Pets\" href=\"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/08\/renting-to-pet-owners\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Rentals<\/a>) and (<a title=\"Mexico Real Estate Rental\" href=\"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/05\/how-do-i-know-that-i-am-getting-a-good-tenant\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Land a Good Tenant<\/a>), so I thought this would be a good subject to include.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i255.photobucket.com\/albums\/hh138\/beatlo\/Rent%20Market%20Themes\/conference20graphic20adjusted-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mexico Real Estate Rentals\" width=\"341\" height=\"138\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">As a Landlord, your must educate yourself with the fair housing laws as there are severe penalties associated with violating these laws in the US In Mexico, this is less regulated, however, <strong><span style=\"underline;\">as a Landlord in a foreign country, it is recommended that you adopt these fair rental practices too. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">I m not going to give you a lesson in Fair Housing but will only outline the basic protected classes of people. When deciding on whom you will rent your <a title=\"Mexico Real Estate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico property<\/a> to, NEVER, EVER, make a decision based upon the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"1;\">  <\/span>Race<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"1;\">  <\/span>Color<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"1;\">  <\/span>National Origin<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"1;\">  <\/span>Religion<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"1;\">  <\/span>Sex<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"1;\">  <\/span>Familial Status (including children under the age of 18 and pregnant women)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"1;\">  <\/span>Handicap<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">There are many, many variables to the Fair Housing Laws. I encourage each of you to familiarize yourselves with these laws and make it a practice, regardless of which country your rental property is located in, to treat everyone the same and do not discriminate against the below protected classes. This is Federal Law in the US and good ethics in Mexico.<\/span><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">For more information on the Fair Housing Act, click on the link below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hud.gov\/offices\/fheo\/FHLaws\/yourrights.cfm\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">http:\/\/www.hud.gov\/offices\/fheo\/FHLaws\/yourrights.cfm<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<p><em><strong>Kami Kemp<\/strong> is both a Texas Realtor and Real Estate Broker in Arizona with Prime Properties. She is a member of the Texas Association of Realtors, the National Association of Realtors and National Association of Residential Property Managers. She began her career in Property Management and Leasing in 1990, has served on various education committees through local associations and has taught many Fair Housing compliance and marketing classes throughout her career.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000c0;\">www.<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">TOP<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000c0;\">mexicorealestate.com<\/span><\/a> 512-879-6546<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyscape.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Do not copy content from the page. 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Unless you ve been exposed to real estate then you probably never thought twice about what this term truly meant and chances are, it has not affected you I have been writing about several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[287,286,1730],"tags":[354,1543,342],"class_list":{"0":"post-130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mexico-long-term-rentals","8":"category-mexico-rental-property","9":"category-real-estate","10":"tag-mexico-land-lord","11":"tag-mexico-rental-property","12":"tag-rental-properties-mexico","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14900,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/14900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}