I live in a luxury apartment complex on the beach. Rooms start at $2000.00 and go up from there. They started relaxing the standards because of the economy and will now let more people room together. The landlords had to do this because they were losing money.

Lately they have been letting a few people in who exude a bad image. One of the new “tenants” are 3 black guys sharing a one bedroom who are covered in tattoos and wear hip-hop and gang inspired clothing.

I don’t feel comfortable around this image. Please: for all of you knee-jerks out there who area screaming racism it’s important to understand there are already black people in the building who have money to live here. But they are not covered in tattoos and are very educated and well spoken and have expensive cars etc.

Bottom line: I don’t want to live around people who look low class, are covered in tattoos, dress hip-hop, talk ghetto, and exude the image of a street thug. Again the ONLY reason these tenants can afford this is because 3 people are living in a one bedroom apartment. They also appear to have aqquired student loans to pay the rent.

I do not want to have to look at them. I don’t want to feel “forced” to say hello in the elevator (as was the case before I sat down to write this. I don’t appreciate the intimidating, head held high (as if to say we are high class too and tough so don’t fuck with us) demeanor they exude. The reason pay so much money to live here is because I don’t want to have to live around people who dress like that, look like that, act like that.

The first thing that jumps out are the tattoos. All are covered with them. The guy has a spider on his neck playing basketball and one of a naked women on his arm and all kinds of writing with a few “home made” (probably got them in prison) on his hands.

I want to discuss this with the landlord as I feel it’s contrary to the kind of environment they want to have here. I believe a good way to weed this out is with tattoo discrimination. However I cannot find any laws against such discrimination. Does this mean it’s technically legal?
Can a luxury condo/apartment complex legally discriminate against people with tattoos?
@ Victoria.

You are an absolute ignorant small minded idiot who cannot even construct her sentences correctly.

First of all. We can never “know” anyone. There may very well be some people who are more negative in the building. But they don’t advertise it. All we can do is go by what we see which includes how that person behaves, presents themselves etc. The saying “act like an idiot get treated like one” is time tested and true. You should have first hand experience with this.

If you are going to present yourself in a certain why your damn right I’m going to “judge” you that way. If I see someone in a soldiers uniform am I “judgemental” for thinking they might be in the military? If I see someone dressed as a fireman am I “judgemental” for thinking they might work near firehouse? If I see a man dressed as as women am I “judgemental” for thinking that person is a transvestite?

The landlord is bound by fair housing laws. He HAD to allow these 3 thuggish looking black people in the

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