Posted on 11/26/2011 6:24:37 AM PST by 1010RD
Similar situation although I hesitate to hijack the thread (again): when husband v.1.0 departed, I called the phone company to get the phone bill responsibility assigned to me. They said they couldn’t do it. My natural conclusion was, “So I don’t have to pay the phone bill because you’ll go after him, heh heh heh.” After a hurried conference with her supervisor, they made the change.
http://www.glad.org/rights/maine/c/anti-discrimination-law-in-maine/
Are any landlords exempt from the housing anti-discrimination law?
The following landlords are exempt from the law:
an owner-occupied 2-family dwelling;
Only if you don’t want to be someone’s test case. Realize that Maine is filled with many many lawyers at all levels of government who are trying to stay relevent. A lawsuit to change laws and make them more open and more inclusive will hurt you bad. And it happens.
The Maine law clearly states that if an owner occupies one half of a duplex, the anti-discrimination law does not apply. Not even a liberal lawyer would go after the owner in such a case.
Mrs. OldPossum and I have a second home in another state. At one time we thought about renting it out for a year but changed our minds when a friend who was knowledgeable about the rental business cautioned us that children would severely damage our place.
I just read your page about censorship and you’re spot on. A friend of mine, very successful in business consulting, worked on Prop 8 in CA. When the names of those working for it we published (thanks to a liberal judge or should I say illiberal), his was on it and he was the target of a vicious campaign to smear his name and get him fired.
Tolerance is a one way street with liberals.
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