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This month, we're going to review the rules on how to avoid fair housing problems when showing units to prospects.

This month's issue addresses how you can get into fair housing trouble by relying on first impressions—that is, snap judgments about prospects, applicants, or residents—based on outward appearances.

New Year's is a time when many of us take a look back and resolve to make some changes in the upcoming year. The most popular resolutions involve personal goals such as losing weight, getting a better job, or reducing debt, according to the U.S. government. (Yes, the government has compiled a list of popular resolutions and resources on its Web site, www.USA.gov, to help people accomplish these goals).

This month's issue focuses on what to do if your community is ever accused of a fair housing violation.

In this month's issue, we'll discuss whether and to what extent fair housing laws affect your ability to regulate smoking at your community.

In this special issue of Fair Housing Coach, we'll update you on recent developments in fair housing law in Washington, state legislatures, and the courts.

This month's issue of Fair Housing Coach focuses on what fair housing experts see as a growing trend in potential liability under fair housing law—retaliation claims.

This month, we are going to review fair housing rules applicable to advertising and marketing—and explain how to apply those rules in the shift from traditional forms of print media to new media, including the Internet, Facebook, and other Web-based technologies.

This month marks the 42nd anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), the federal law that bars housing discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, and familial status.

This month, the focus is on preventing resident grievances from escalating into costly litigation. Of course, you can't prevent anyone from filing a fair housing complaint—doing so may itself be a fair housing violation. But if you focus your fair housing efforts on prevention, you can avoid the costly drain on your resources—in the time, effort, and expense needed to defend your community from a full-blown HUD investigation or a private fair housing law...