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		<title>You Will Not Want To Miss AASEW&#8217;s Fourth Annual Landlord Boot Camp on Saturday Feb. 25th</title>
		<link>http://petriestocking.com/blog/2012/01/03/you-will-not-want-to-miss-aasews-fourth-annual-landlord-boot-camp-on-saturday-feb-25th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan R. Pettit, Esq.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Landlording can be pretty complex, with a seemingly never ending myriad of paperwork, rules, landlord-tenant laws and simple mistakes that can cost you thousands of dollars. The Apartment Association of Southeastern Wisconsin&#8217;s Fourth Annual “Landlord Boot Camp” can help you navigate these treacherous waters and teach you how to run your properties with greater profit and less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Federal Bill Would Add Two New Protected Classes To Federal Fair Housing Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan R. Pettit, Esq.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fair Housing / Discrimination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 26, 2011 both chambers of the U.S. Congress introduced legislation that would extend housing discrimination laws to include protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.  The HOME (Housing Opportunities Made Equal) Act was introduced by Sen. John Kerry and others.  The bill would amend the Fair Housing Act to prohibit housing discrimination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Wisconsin Landlords Charged with Violating Fair Housing Laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan R. Pettit, Esq.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Wisconsin landlords have recently been charged with violating Fair Housing laws by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). First, in late July, HUD announced that it charged a husband and wife who own a rental property in Brown County with violating the Fair Housing Act for allegedly creating different rental requirements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Largest Settlement of State Fair Housing Claim Occurs in Arizona</title>
		<link>http://petriestocking.com/blog/2011/07/28/largest-settlement-of-state-fair-housing-claim-occurs-in-arizona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan R. Pettit, Esq.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 2007 Fair Housing complaint filed by two Arizona tenants alleging that their apartment managers discriminated against them based on their race, nationality and religion, has resulted in the largest state Fair Housing claim to date. In 2007, Soha Abdelrahman and her husband Hany Obrahim filed a lawsuit against their Tempe, Arizona apartment managers claiming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Landlord&#8217;s Primer on &#8220;Reasonable Accomodations&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://petriestocking.com/blog/2011/01/11/a-landlords-primer-on-reasonable-accomodations/</link>
		<comments>http://petriestocking.com/blog/2011/01/11/a-landlords-primer-on-reasonable-accomodations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan R. Pettit, Esq.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am seeing an increase in tenants making &#8221;reasonable accomodations&#8221; requests during their tenancy.  While similar to &#8220;reasonable modifications,&#8221; which I blogged about a few weeks ago, reasonable accomodations are different. A reasonable accomodation request is one in which a tenant who has a disability asks his/her landlord to make an accomodation to the landlord&#8217;s rules, policies, practices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Reasonable Modifications:&#8221; What A Landlord Needs To Know About This Important Topic</title>
		<link>http://petriestocking.com/blog/2010/12/21/reasonable-modifications-what-a-landlord-needs-to-know-about-this-important-topic/</link>
		<comments>http://petriestocking.com/blog/2010/12/21/reasonable-modifications-what-a-landlord-needs-to-know-about-this-important-topic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan R. Pettit, Esq.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term &#8220;reasonable modifications&#8221; is used throughout the federal Fair Housing Act as well as Wisconsin&#8217;s Open Housing law (which for the most part adopts federal law).  Requests for reasonable modifications by tenant are on the rise.  The Basics: Wisconsin&#8217;s Open Housing law, which can be found at sec. 106.50, Wis. Stats., states that a landlord cannot refuse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Discrimination: What Actions Are Covered?</title>
		<link>http://petriestocking.com/blog/2010/11/01/housing-discrimination-what-actions-are-covered/</link>
		<comments>http://petriestocking.com/blog/2010/11/01/housing-discrimination-what-actions-are-covered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan R. Pettit, Esq.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are federal, state and municipal laws that make discrimination in the area of housing illegal.  The breadth of fair housing laws is vast and landlords should educate themselves on just what actions may be discriminatory before they get themselves into trouble. I have previously blogged about what the various protected classes are but this post [...]]]></description>
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