[landlord - IN] normally a judgement on record is an automatic denial to an applicant. But would you guys give a break if it occurred a long time ago?

Typically evictions stay on record for 7 years, so I would say no, regardless of whether they’ve paid the judgement or not. Our standard is if an eviction comes up when we process the application, we cannot approve at this time. It’d be one thing if evictions stayed on their record for an unlimited amount of time, so then an eviction pops up from- say 10 or 15 years ago. However, in my opinion anything coming up from 1-7 years isn’t “too” long ago and fairly standard to be denied for. Also keeping in mind with Fair Housing, best practice is to have one set of standards all across the board, without making any special exceptions. “What you do for one, you must do for all.” That being said, it’s really your own call/preference on whether you think you should approve them or not based on how long ago it was, but I’d pick/set a standard “time-frame” for denying one with prior evictions within those limits and hold all applicants to that same standard to 1) be fair to all and 2) protect yourself from a future Fair Housing lawsuit if “somebody” denied for one thing knows “somebody” else who got approved with a similar situation

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