Reply #46: You certainly can't be serious.

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In order to be truly "free to require" a credit check of the lessor, the renter must have equal power--both legal and practical--to exercise that freedom.

If the renter demands a credit check and the lessor refuses, what will be the result? I'll tell you: nine times out of then, the renter will have to find a new place to rent.


You're equivocating legal freedom versus practical freedom, and you seem to be pretending that only one is a factor here. Hell, a teenage boy is "100% free to require a credit check from" his prospective girlfriend's father, but that doesn't mean that he's free to do so in any real or practical sense.