--- title: This Landlord Will Refuse to Rent You an Apartment if You're a Trump Voter description: 'Some discrimination is completely legal: A Colorado landlord is refusing to accept any Trump supporter as a renter of the apartment he owns.' authors: - name: Denver Nicks url: https://money.com/author/denver-nicks/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 60 covers: - Housing - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Personal Finance - Pets - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes social: - https://x.com/DenverNicks - https://plus.google.com/105122198911201917932 former_staff: true published: '2016-03-22T14:03:39.000Z' modified: '2016-03-22T14:03:39.000Z' section: Housing tags: - Colorado - Donald Trump - Grand Junction - landlord - politics - pubdesk - real estate - Rental - residential - tenant word_count: 203 canonical: https://money.com/landlord-wont-rent-trump-voters/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hold signs and chant his name during a campaign rally at Fountain Park during a campaign rally on March 19, 2016 in Fountain Hills, Arizona.](https://img.money.com/2016/03/160322_rea_landlordnotrump.jpg) The landlord of a residential rental property in downtown Grand Junction, Colo., is looking for a tenant for a two-bedroom apartment with a hot tub and space for an organic garden. Prospective renters can even have well-behaved dogs. Mark Holmes placed an ad in *The Nickel*, a local classified ads paper, seeking a tenant for the Main Street apartment, with the stipulation that applicants not support Trump, who Holmes accuses of "preaching hate." “I live in the top part of the house,” Holmes told the *Grand Junction Daily Sentinel*. “I don’t want anybody that even thinks that Donald Trump can be a good president to live in my home.” Holmes says he has already received several promising applicants, but that the ad also inspired at least a few people to leave hate mail on his answering machine, including one caller who said Holmes’ rental stipulation was a violation of federal housing regulations that ban discrimination. Which isn’t, apparently, true. “That has nothing to do with the Fair Housing Act,” says Housing and Urban Development spokesperson Jerry Brown. 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