Can a landlord to add a clause in the rental agreement, stating that the tenant’s will not plan for a family during the term of the tenancy?
Full Question:
I am on a lookout for a tenant for my two-bedroom house in New York. I prefer unmarried or childless couple, as I hate kids. I wanna know if it is possible for a landlord to have it in the rental agreement itself that the tenant won't be planning for family or having kids during the term of the tenancy?
02/28/2017 |
Category: Landlord Tenant |
State: New York |
#33032
Answer:
NY CLS Real P § 237 reads:
“Any person, firm or corporation owning or having in charge any apartment house, tenement house or other building or mobile home park used for dwelling purposes who shall, in any lease of any or part of any such building or mobile home park, have a clause therein providing that during the term thereof the tenants shall remain childless or shall not bear children, shall be guilty of a violation.”