Fair Housing Helper for Apartment Professionals

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Fair Housing Helper for Apartment Professionals

Name: Fair Housing Helper for Apartment Professionals
Author: Ron Leshnower
ISBN: 978-0989291101

by Ron Leshnower ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 19, 2013

A useful, easy-to-read guide for those who want to learn more about complying with U.S. fair housing law.

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A guide for apartment owners and managers looking to learn about U.S. laws and regulations governing equal housing opportunity.

Lawyer Leshnower (Every Landlord’s Property Protection Guide, 2008) takes a modified Socratic approach to explore the basics and subtleties of the federal Fair Housing Act by writing this book in quiz form, which he describes as an “interactive format that encourages knowledge, participation, and lasting comprehension.” Mostly that’s true. Walking readers through the law, the quiz poses 117 questions on topics from racism to pet policies. Followed by true-or-false or multiple-choice answers, the questions let readers make their best guess and then turn the page to find the correct response. Leshnower covers the basics of the law, including its seven protected classes—race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability and familial status—and more esoteric questions, such as how to handle albinos and how to replace refrigerators without getting into hot water with the feds. The book offers plenty of good advice in plain English. For instance, sometimes it’s best for landlords to keep their mouths shut even if they just want to be helpful; while the FHA treats drug addicts as part of its protected disabled class, it doesn’t afford the same status to recreational-drug users; and though “very often, landlords get into fair housing trouble because they don’t take the same action with all tenants,” exceptions exist—e.g., even though landlords may require all tenants to pay a pet deposit, they must waive the fee for disabled tenants with service animals. Though the quiz format makes learning the law fun and easy to digest, it doesn’t lend itself to quick referencing; a table of contents, index and section headings would have made this book handier for landlords seeking immediate answers for particular problems. Also, though the author points out that even innocently violating the law “can lead to fair housing trouble,” readers want a better idea of exactly what kind of trouble that might be.

A useful, easy-to-read guide for those who want to learn more about complying with U.S. fair housing law.

Pub Date: April 19, 2013

ISBN: 978-0989291101

Page Count: 306

Publisher: Hillocrian Creative

Review Posted Online: Nov. 4, 2013

Review Program: Kirkus Indie

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GENERAL NONFICTION

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NUTCRACKER

by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996

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This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)

Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996

ISBN: 0-15-100227-4

Page Count: 136

Publisher: Harcourt

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996

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GENERAL NONFICTION

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TO THE ONE I LOVE THE BEST

EPISODES FROM THE LIFE OF LADY MENDL (ELSIE DE WOLFE)

by Ludwig Bemelmans ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 1955

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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.