The answer to your qestions should be obvious. When I moved into my present
apartment in 1971, I checked out a variety of apartments before I found the one I
liked. Since I was a student at that time, my income was limited and it would have
been a hardship to pay a lot of application fees. I assume people still check out a
variety of apartments today. They will have to to increase their chances of getting
an apartment since the landlord will have a number of applicants to choose from so
apartments hunters may not be the one chosen even if they don't have any black marks
on their record.
Since a more thorouh investigation can be done with the resources of an Association
than the resources of an individual landlord and one application can be used in
applying for a number of apartments, you would think the landlords would find it in
their interests to set up such an association themselves.
Finally, if everyone who has a bad credit reference, and even people who have just
been released from prison after serving time for a felony, are eventually going to be
rejected by all the landlords and forced to live as homeless persons on the street,
the vast numbers of the people who will be homeless are going to have to forcibly
occupy vacant apartments themselves. Before it comes to that, it would be far better
for the government to lower the boom on the landlords who are profiting from
excessively high, multiple application fees.
This bleating cry about how private businesspersons are going to be hurt has
happened whenever any progressive reform has been introduced, from workers
compensation to the minimum wage to social security.
Robert Halfhill Loring Park
http://halfhillviews.greatnow.com
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