This is general legal information, not legal advice. Oregon manufactured home community law is specialized and complex.
Answer: This is a typical scenario. You are entitled to ask for verification, and you should unless the need is already apparent. MHCO has forms for the tenant application and landlord agreement (if approved). You should use them!
What Did FHEO-2020-01 Do?
However reasonable your suspicions, it’s necessary to set them aside and handle the request as a request for a reasonable accommodation.
You Make the Call: Did the tenant have a valid claim for refusing to make reasonable accommodations?
Answer: Yes
Spot the Discrimination Mistake
Situation: A condo association with a no-pets policy lets a tenant keep two service dogs to accommodate his disability. After several years of good behavior, the dogs turn into incessant barkers who disturb their neighbors. The association orders the tenant to get rid of them or face eviction.
The owners and managers of a Midwest community recently agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department, alleging that they violated fair housing law by placing undue conditions on a resident’s request to live with her assistance animal and then refused to renew her le