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Fair Housing Listing Checker
Paste a listing description and see which phrases fair housing trainers commonly flag — with the reason and a suggested rewrite for each. It runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded, stored, or sent anywhere.
Read this before you use it. This is an educational aid, not legal advice, and it is not a compliance certification. It matches common phrasing patterns — it cannot read your overall message, and the legal test under §3604(c) is how an ordinary reader would understand the advertisement as a whole. A clean result here does not mean a listing is compliant. Your broker and counsel are the right final word.
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What this tool can't do
- It can't judge your overall message. A listing with zero flagged phrases can still indicate a preference through its framing, imagery, or what it leaves out.
- It doesn't know your state or city. Source of income, age, marital status, military status and others are protected in many jurisdictions but not federally. Ask your broker for your local list.
- It doesn't check your ad targeting, which is where a lot of current exposure actually sits — excluded age ranges, radii that carve out neighborhoods, lookalike audiences built on unrepresentative lists.
- It flags patterns, not violations. Several entries have entirely legitimate uses, which is why they're marked context matters rather than worth rewriting.
Want this handled as part of your marketing? Listing copy is one piece of a bigger system — see the free DIY playbook if you'd rather run it yourself, or our plans if you'd rather not.