HOME v. Vetter

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Read the filed Federal Complaint.

Read the Settlement Agreement.

Read the Memorandum of Understanding.

Listen to the audio recordings of Ms. Vetter below:

Clip 1:

“So you know, ideally I can just pick my perfect apartment it would be like … studios. No children, no, I mean. Kids your age are fine, but 3 year olds are the worst tenants ever. That’s the thing. I’ve had 3 year olds for tenants. Ringing bells, the knobs are missing off of everything, and the carpet is pulled off the bathtub. Like, what, didn’t you have a rubber duckie? You know, or something?”

 

Clip 2:

“Yes, I try very hard to make sure I rent to good people. And I don’t rent to people who are on welfare… That’s one of the things that’s on the democrat agenda for changes to landlord tenant law. I hope that never happens, but now the democrats run Virginia, it will … to the list of groups you can’t discriminate against, based on religion, you know. Sex, national origin, race, blah blah blah. Back in the 80s they added familial status, which means you can’t discriminate against people with children. They wanna add to that list, source of income. Which would mean you can’t decide not to participate in section 8 housing. ‘Cause a lot of people don’t. You know, people who have section 8 vouchers have a hard time finding housing because most landlords don’t want to rent section 8. But if that passes, I mean they don’t have it up, like … I think it is in one of the proposals for this year, but I don’t expect that to pass. But that’s what they’re trying to do, they’re trying to require landlords to rent to people who are on welfare and get section 8 housing. And … I mean I just won’t. You know, I just won’t. I make my own way in life and I feel like others should too… but even if they pass that law, I’m not going to do that. I mean being a private landlord as opposed to an apartment complex, there are things that I can subtly just disregard certain laws like that.”

 

Clip3:

“I get calls all the time from people who get a disability check. Not a darn thing wrong with them. Nothing. Nothing’s wrong with them, like I’ll ask ‘Are you in a wheelchair? Can you do stairs?’ ‘Oh, it’s not that kind of disability.’ ‘What is it?’ ‘I’m depressed.’ ‘Really, well so am I, now that I know what my tax dollars are paying for again.’”

 

Clip4:

“Well there’s a lot of ways, things that make a tenant good or bad that have nothing to do with whether a person is good or bad. For instance, you have no children. Children make terrible tenants. The law doesn’t allow me to discriminate against people on account of children, but I can tell you I would rather have a Great Dane for a tenant than a three year old.”