Chapter 13 focuses on the applicability of civil rights laws to property managem

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Chapter 13 focuses on the applicability of civil rights laws to property management. In particular, you will learn about the Civil Rights Laws of 1866, 1870, 1964 and 1968, including the 1988 Fair Housing Amendment Act, the Americans With Disabilities Act, and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. This chapter also discusses the importance of employing ethics when making good business decisions and guides you in analyzing a situation from an ethical point of view.

1. A property manager has recommended a real estate attorney to many of her clients. When the attorney does personal business for the property manager, the attorney’s bills seem extremely low and sometimes the attorney even forgets to bill the property manager. Is there a problem?

2. You receive two applications for the same apartment. The agent taking the second application did not know of the first application so the prospective tenant was not told that an application had been received.

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Yes, there is a problem and it looks there are ethical issues here. Attorney may generally charge a small percentage lower than regular clients, if they know someone or does business for longer times. However if an attorney charges extremely low and even forgets to charge sometime means that they have benefits, elsewhere, serving this client. So there might be a possibility that this person is referring lots of clients to this attorney and hence he is showing this concession, which is not fair. Attorney would then end up taking up cases for the wrong reasons as well and end up supporting this person even in wrong times.

2. As a person with ethics, i would, when it is brought to my knowledge, take up the case of the first applicant and initiate a discussion with that applicant and proceed for rentals. Unless there is a disagreement or dislike among each other, i would not initiate the conversation with the second applicant and would request the agent not to repeat this type of mistake in the near future.

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