Thread: Help! My tenants are illegal aliens

Didn't you do a background check, check their credit, any of those things that a landlord would typically do before entering into a rental contract.

This is one thing I truely don't get........I've ALWAYS had to give everything to be checked....employers name and address and employer, family member, credit check etc. Then given a long list of thou shalt nots.......no overnight guest longer than 1 week without prior notification and consent.....no other roommates, no pets, no use of any other parking spots other than the one assigned, no painting without consent, no nails no this, that and the other. Any more than 3 complaints of noise and you were out....on down the line. We have 12 people living in an apartment with chickens and 6 cars outside and it's fine! Fiesta music going 24/7 and cool. And I didn't live in any fancy complex....they were 1/2 step above slums. But now suddenly you can do what you want.......I don't get it.

Originally Posted by crazybird

Didn't you do a background check, check their credit, any of those things that a landlord would typically do before entering into a rental contract.

This is one thing I truely don't get........I've ALWAYS had to give everything to be checked....employers name and address and employer, family member, credit check etc. Then given a long list of thou shalt nots.......no overnight guest longer than 1 week without prior notification and consent.....no other roommates, no pets, no use of any other parking spots other than the one assigned, no painting without consent, no nails no this, that and the other. Any more than 3 complaints of noise and you were out....on down the line. We have 12 people living in an apartment with chickens and 6 cars outside and it's fine! Fiesta music going 24/7 and cool. And I didn't live in any fancy complex....they were 1/2 step above slums. But now suddenly you can do what you want.......I don't get it.

I hear you crazybird. I don't get it either! Is there a different standard that American citizens are subjected to when applying for a job or renting an apartment? When doing either, I have been asked to present several forms of ID, consent to background, and or credit checks, complete an application and other forms, list references, etc.

By the end, a potential employer or landlord knows more about me than my own mother, and yet we are expected to believe these landlords are suddenly finding out after the fact they have been renting to illegals.

I could be wrong, (Wouldn't be the first time) but I do not buy it! I suspect the truth is these landlords didn't know because they were not particularly interested in knowing at the time of agreement.

Two different groups have emerged in America today due to the effect of illegal immigration, those who have to obey the law (citizens) and those who don't (illegal aliens).