Rules for advertising with Duke Community Housing

1. Do not discriminate.
   Duke Community Housing supports Fair Housing. Comments in your ad should not contain language that discriminates against people of a certain race, color, sex, religion, national origin, handicap, or familial status. Exceptions to the rule include the rental of a room or rooms in a home where the owner or current tenant lives in the home ( i.e. an ad for a roommate).
   
   For more information -
   Questions and Answers on: Fair Housing, North Carolina Real Estate Commission
   Durham Human Relations Commission, Telephone: (919) 560-4107, 101 City Hall Plaza, Durham, NC 27701
   
   
2. Be a responsible landlord.
   Lots of graduate-level students use this resource to find rental housing. The last thing they need is housing with problems distracting them from their academic goals. As a reminder:
   North Carolina statutes require you to:
   "Comply with current applicable building and housing codes"
   "Make all repairs and do whatever is necessary to put and keep the rental premises in a fit and habitable condition"
   "Keep all common areas in safe condition"
   "Maintain in good and safe working order and promptly repair all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and other facilities and appliances supplied or required to be supplied by the landlord provided that notification of needed repairs is made to the landlord in writing by the tenant, except in emergency situations."
   "Provide operable smoke detectors, either battery-operated or electrical. The landlord shall ensure that a smoke detector is operable and in good repair at the beginning of each tenancy."
   
   For more information -
   North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 42 Landlord and Tenant.
   To request a fire safety inspection - call 560-4242 before 8:30 a.m. or after 3:30 p.m., Durham Fire Department
   To request a minimum housing code inspection - call 560-4570, City of Durham Housing and Community Development Office
   
   
3. Update rental ads promptly.
   The goal of the web site is to show users available rentals. Make your ad inactive as soon as you have a tenant or roommate. If you cannot inactivate it through the web site, email or call Community Housing staff; we will make the ad inactive for you.
   

Duke Community Housing reserves the right to refuse ads.
If Community Housing staff receives a series of tenant complaints about a rental property or landlord, they can refuse ads for specific addresses or landlord. Depending on the situation, ads may be inactivated temporarily or indefinitely. Duke Community Housing does not guarantee the rental housing in the database, but also does not knowingly want to put anyone in a situation that may deter them from their academic pursuits.

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