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Re: WWYD if a registered sex offender
No. Even if you had no contact with them, my first (possibly paranoid) thought would be what if they installed cameras or something? For every sex offender who would be interested in my property, there are plenty of other non-sex offenders I could find to rent to. I just don't want to interact with sex offenders if I don't have to.
Do you have an idea of what the offense was and how long ago it was?
Ditto pp's, I would want to know what kind of offense it was. Not all registered sex offenders molested children or raped women. When I was in college a guy I graduated HS with went to a party at Towson when he was 19, a freshman, and had sex with a girl there who also said she went to Towson. Turns out she was still in HS, 16yrs old, and her parents found out after she started bragging about it. He then went on to have to register as a sex offender. I would have zero issues renting my house to him. At all.
Something more serious I do think I would have a problem with. Consider what will happen if neighbors find out and the potential vandalism that would happen to your house or pictures of the house plastered everywhere. It doesn't always happen that way but sometimes does.
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There would definitely be a lot of stipulations- one that hasn't been brought up is, how emotionally connected you are to the house? Would you ever want to live there again? Do you think the neighbors of the house would ever welcome you back, etc?
There is a house outside my community (so we would never go trick-or-treating there, see this person at our pool, etc.) but less than a mile from us that is a rental house, a registered sex offender moved in after we bought our house. An e-mail was sent out by our HOA president alerting us to this fact and I know I have given the house the side-eye ever since as a result.
I do not know the owner of the home, but if I lived next door I would have been very upset and likely pissed off at the owner for renting to such a tenant, that being said, I can't imagine it being any landlord's first choice in terms of a tenant.
I think so it if wasn't a crime against a child.
Can you look the person up on the MD Judiciary Case Search to get an idea of how long ago it was and the specific charge? Rape itself I'd be extremely hesitant to accept as a tenant, but statutory rape would give me less pause.
did the prospective tenant disclose this to you or did you find it on the background check?