BIG PICTURE: Profiling Short-Term Rental Tenants is Industry's Newest Hot Topic

ORLANDO-Whether they acknowledge it or not, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks elevated property managers of multifamily assets around the world to a new status: Front-line Terrorist Cop.

Most property management agents in the United States and Great Britain today are paying closer attention to itinerant tenants with no job record, pocketfuls of cash and a need to rent an apartment for only 30 to 90 days, brokers, managers and analysts tell GlobeSt.com in an exclusive industry survey.

Because of that scenario, “there is going to be a lot of housing discrimination against people of the Islam religion,” Prof. F. Willis Caruso, director, Fair Housing Legal Center, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, tells GlobeSt.com Midwest Bureau Chief Mark Ruda. “The groups that are being discriminated against take awhile to learn how to exercise their rights.”