Fair Housing

It’s Fair Housing Month. Realtors should not be discriminating

April is Fair Housing Month. Jared Wilk, 2024 President of GBAR (Greater Boston Association of Realtors), sent out his monthly message. Here is his outline, with my responses after the series of dashes (-----). Take the fair housing course. --- well, of course! Learn about implicit bias. --- The summary page for Realtors explained what

By |2024-04-18T14:12:45-04:00April 24th, 2024|Categories: Fair Housing|Tags: , , , , , |

Denied a mortgage because you are pregnant?

As a house hunter, you are under no obligation to tell your lender that you are pregnant or plan to be pregnant. Pregnancy is not a legal reason for a lender to deny you a mortgage, unless your income changes in a way that makes you no longer qualified for the mortgage. In 2008, when

By |2022-04-24T19:57:40-04:00April 13th, 2022|Categories: buying process, Fair Housing, Legal questions|Tags: , , , |