The Tenant Screening Checklist

The lawful screening sequence on one page — including the pet question done right: askable at the application, a lawful selection factor applied identically to everyone, with the service-animal accommodation duty (the need, never the diagnosis) built into the flow. Plus the full authorized package (income, consented credit checks, references, rental history, guarantees — weighed together), the protected grounds that never enter a file, and the public-orders era's five risks and defensible sequence. Screen the pet like part of the application; screen the application like the regulation wrote it.

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