September 2025 Coach's Quiz
QUESTIONS
1. A rental applicant who’s been unemployed for months gets all of her income from welfare and alimony payments. After calculating her income, you determine it’s not enough to meet your community’s income requirements. The laws of your state ban discrimination based on lawful sources of income. Must you accept the applicant as a tenant?a. No, as long as you consistently reject other applicants who don’t meet your income requirements
b. Yes, because rejecting her would be discrimination based on her sources of income
c. No, because applicants who don’t have steady jobs are too great a financial risk
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a. No, as long as you consistently reject other applicants who don’t meet your income requirements
b. Yes, because rejecting her would be discrimination based on her sources of income
c. No, because applicants who don’t have steady jobs are too great a financial risk
Correct answer: a
Reason: Q #5 applies here:
Q #5: Does My State Ban Discrimination Based on Source of Income?
Source of income restrictions simply mean that if an applicant has the lawful funds to pay her rent each month, you can’t reject her simply because you object to where those funds come from. What they don’t require you to do is accept an applicant with insufficient income. So, a. is the right answer.
Wrong answers explained:
b. The reason b. is wrong is because an insufficient amount of income, regardless of source, is a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for rejection as long as you consistently apply the income standard with all prospects. Stated differently, the ban on source of income discrimination doesn’t require you to reduce your normal income standards based on their income sources.
c. The reason c. is wrong is because requiring applicants to have a steady job is a form of source of income discrimination that the laws ban. As long as applicants can get the money they need to pay rent from legal sources, the source of that income is none of your concern.
2. While screening an applicant, you learn about frequent complaints and police calls about domestic disturbances at her former residences. To prevent similar problems at your community, you can deny her application without violating any fair housing laws. True or false?a. True
b. False
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a. True
b. False
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Correct answer: b
Reason: Q #8 applies here:
Q #8: Does My State Ban Discrimination Based on Domestic Violence?
You could trigger a discrimination complaint if your community is subject to state or local fair housing laws that protect domestic violence victims. Even if you’re not, you should check to see if there are any other state or local laws that prohibit landlords from denying housing because of a history of being a domestic violence victim.
Answer: C. Deliberately. In the concluding chapter of Walden (a book about his experiences living for two years, two months, and two days by Walden Pond), Thoreau wrote: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
