Because you weren't picked means discrimination. There can be other circumstances that you are unaware of. The parents may have meant all the applicants and for whatever reason connected better with the people they selected. Only the landlord knows why they selected who they did.
1. Yes.
2. You don't know if there was discrimination. And applications do NOT have to be processed in the order received. It's very common (in hiring, in real estate, etc.) to collect applications over a period of time and then to evaluate them and select the best one. That's not only common, it's 100% legal.
The way you phrased your question suggests that the parents may have selected different tenants before the processing on your application was completed.
Hope that helps.
Most landlords gather as many applications as they can and pick what is the best one. Or they hope is the best one. It is always a gamble.
You may have qualified but that does not mean someone more desirable did not qualify as well. I doubt it is discrmination, as that doesn't help the landlord any. It was likely higher income, higher credit, fewer people, fewer animals, better references, more secure job, or something along those lines. Sometimes it is just who is more likable or who will get along better with the neighbors. For instance, I have a duplex with tenants I have had for over 10 years, great tenants. However, they are heavy smokers. I literally only rent the other side to smokers simply because there will not be tension that way. So you never know, sometimes things you would not think matter actually matter a lot.
1. Yes, most landlord will take 10-20 applications at a time and then pick the tenant they want.
2. You don't know if it was discrimination and the landlord is not obligated to process the applications in the order that they were received.
Yes, it is possible to process two at a time.
And you will never know if there was discrimination unless you can find other people of your protected class that have been rejected. And you have no idea (and won't know) what order applications are processed in.
I think you mean to ask if there was illegal discrimination. Because it is only illegal to discriminate against certain few protected classes. By race for instance. It is perfectly ok to discriminate against anyone because they have bad credit or because the parents already rented it or because of hundreds of other reasons. But if you can show that they chose not to rent to you because you are a member of certain protected classes of people (and this would be a different list in different states or cities) then you may have action you can bring against them.
If they are renting a room within their personal home they are even allowed to discriminate against some of the protected classes!
1. Yes.
2. You don't know there was no discrimination, and you don't know they were processed in the order received. There is no obligation for them to process them in the order received.
1. Yes and this is very common.
2. You cannot know for sure on either discrimination or the order they ran the applications. Yes discrimination is illegal but it is also very very hard to prove.
Yes it is possible to process more than two applications simultaneously for the same rental property.And i think you don't have to worry too much about your tenant application rejection sometimes it happens with tenants, you should try somewhere else now rather than thinking about your rejection.
Absolutely they can process multiple applications. They don't know when they take a application if you will qualify
Hi,
We submitted an application, along with the application fee, to rent a house. Our application was processed and everything was good. But the landlord told us that his parents already selected different tenants.
I do not understand few things. I appreciate if someone can help me.
1. Is it possible to process more than two applications simultaneously for the same rental property?
2. Our credit history, salary, references were all good. How do we know if there was not any discrimination involved? How do we know if the applications were processed in the order received?
Thank you.
It may be a disappointment, but I don't see a problem.
Thank you all very much for the responses.
