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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, it is reasonable for someone not to want a young child in their home.  A one month old can wake up screaming multiple times a night.  In most houses you can hear through the rooms and that would be a nightmare for someone sleeping.  You should disclose you have a young child.  You may find someone family friendly but I don't blame them.  I can't imagine bring our toddler into a situation like that for both our sake and their sake.  Get a hotel.[/quote]

This is a house rental, not a room in someone's home. So OP and her family will be the only ones there--she's not looking to rent a room out.

And while it's understandable that people may not want babies in their homes, it is nonetheless still against the law to refuse to rent to families with children unless the home is exempt from fair housing laws. There are plenty of people out there who would also prefer not to rent to black families or to men, too, but if it is a vacation rental home advertised on VRBO, that's not the owner's call to make, per federal law. [/quote]
How naive are you?  Even if it is against the law, the owner can always just rent to someone else (that's his call).  We all know how it works...a house is for sale and the owner has the right to decide who to sell it to.  This isn't the 50s, most owners are now "smart" enough to get around discrimination laws.  It happens all the time.  Pull your head out of the sand.[/quote]

Well, this owner apparently wasn't, given that he/she added the statement to the listing requesting only quiet children after OP emailed. Not worth OP's time to worry about, but that could almost certainly be successfully challenged if someone were so inclined.

Yes, obviously people violate this law all the time and are rarely sued given that it's difficult to prove patterns of discrimination, even with actual long-term rental housing where it's a much bigger problem. But that doesn't change the fact that it is illegal discrimination, which was the question asked. [/quote]

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