Category: Disability Accomodations

Dear Fair Housing Lady: Paint Sensitivity?

| May 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

Dear Fair Housing Lady,   We are getting ready to paint the hallways in our apartment building.  We always like to let our residents know what is going on and we sent everyone a letter about this.  Now one of our residents has come to the office and is telling us that there are certain [...]

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Dear Fair Housing Lady: Service Animals

| March 16, 2012 | 1 Comment

Dearest Fair Housing Lady, We have a resident who has provided us with information (properly, according to our policies) that she has a disability and therefore needs to have a dog at our cat-only property.  I am fine with that, but can we limit this resident to a small dog?  Or can she get any [...]

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Dear Fair Housing Lady: Nosy Neighbor

| November 9, 2011 | 0 Comments

Dear Fair Housing Lady:   I oh-so-get-it when it comes to reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and I think that at my community we have done a good job with handling requests.  So that’s not the problem.  What is the problem is that sometimes we get questions from other residents who are either nosy [...]

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