Can I refuse to rent to someone just because I dont like him or he makes me feel uncomfortable?
Initially, you decide who you should rent to, and who you should not rent to, and at what rent. You may use any criteria you desire to make these decisions, provided they are not the wrong criteria. The wrong criteria are those that are proscribed by law, and they vary from state to state. Prohibited in all states is the refusal to rent because of ethnic background, race, religion, sex, sexual proclivity, age, marital status, or income source. You should check the laws of your individual state to see what other criteria may be prohibited. You can do this in the landlord law section. In the abstract, provided the source of your discomfort is not one of the prohibited criteria, we see no legal reason why you could not refuse to rent to someone because of a general anxiety about the person. But while this is metaphysically true, it is practically false. If you make a screening decision based on a criterion as vague as the one you describe, then you open yourself up to a charge of invidiou
