Check Your Understanding Answers
- What is testing?
Testing is a simulated housing transaction designed to obtain evidence of differential treatment based on an individual's protected class status.
- How can testing be beneficial?
Testing, coupled with good documentation and record keeping, can clearly demonstrate a real estate agency's innocence when faced with a fair housing complaint.
- Because the Supreme Court has ruled testing is legal, how should agents view the practice of testing in real estate?
Testing for fair housing compliance must be recognized as a risk and a cost of doing business.
- What is the best way to avoid fair housing complaints?
Treat everyone the same
