Being prepared for all that the landlord will try to ask you about yourself when it is time to rent out an apartment can help you to see better results overall. There are often a lot of other people trying to rent the same apartment, especially if it is a nice one and the market is hot. The landlord is allowed to ask some questions and there can be some back and forth between everyone depending on the process they use. These questions help them to figure out who is going to be the best tenant to move into the apartment, someone who will pay the rent on time and keep the place looking nice and neat.

While the landlord is allowed to ask some questions to get a better feel for the type of tenant that you are going to be with, there are some restrictions put in place that will help to protect the individual tenant and will prevent the landlord from discriminating against them during the process. There are a number of questions that are cut out from the start, but one of them is whether the landlord can ask how old a potential tenant is.

Even if a rental application does have a section that asks for the date of birth on it, you do not have to fill this out at all. As long as you are the legal age for renting in your stage (18 to 19 depending on where you live) then the landlord is not allowed to factor this into whether or not you will be a good tenant to that place or not. If they do decide to hold that against you, then it is considered discriminatory.

There are a few exceptions to this one though. If the housing is for a retirement community or a senior area, then the landlord is able to ask whether the applicant is the minimum age for living in that area. These were designed with special amenities and perks for the elderly, so it makes sense that younger kids and families would not live there.

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