Walk It Through: The Apartment Hunt
Familial status, different terms on a protected ground, and a deposit capped at two months' rent.
A parent with young children is told the building does not rent to families.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One parent and one search for a home. How a complaint is filed, the exemptions, and the deposit's return at move out are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.