A Housing Application must be submitted by each Applicant who will be occupying a rental unit. All Applicants must meet the following Rental Requirements and Qualifications. “Applicant” is defined as the person who will be signing the Lease Agreement as the “Resident” thereunder. “Guarantor” is defined as the person who will sign the Guaranty Agreement.
 
The following constitute Landlord’s current Rental Requirements and Qualifications. Nothing contained in these requirements shall constitute a guarantee or representation that all residents residing at the Property, including any roommates that will occupy a rental unit, have met these requirements. There may be residents or occupants who have applied to reside at the Property prior to the stated requirements taking effect.
 
To reserve your rental unit, you must sign a Lease Agreement. The Lease Agreement is a binding contract between you and Landlord. Your Lease Agreement will not be executed by Landlord until all rental requirements and qualifications are met, your identification is verified, and your Housing Application is approved. If your Housing Application is denied, the Lease Agreement will not be executed by Landlord and, to the extent permitted under applicable law, you will forfeit all non-refundable fees paid at the time of application. Only deposits will be refunded on denied applications.
 
You acknowledge that you have a full understanding that the Lease Agreement is only binding once your Housing Application has been approved and the Lease Agreement has been executed by Landlord. There is no stated or implied guarantee of housing until your Lease Agreement has been executed by Landlord. Once executed by you and Landlord, the Lease Agreement shall be binding on both parties.
 
IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
As a condition to approval of Applicant’s Housing Application and Landlord’s execution of a Lease Agreement, Applicant must satisfactorily complete Landlord’s identity verification process. As part of this process, applicants must provide government issued photo identification document (such as a driver’s license or passport) and a valid Social Security Number. Applicants who are citizens of another country must provide the following: (1) a passport and (2) the document that entitles the Applicant to be in the United States through the term of the Lease Agreement, such as a visa or a SEVIS I-20 verifying student status and proof of enrollment. Guarantors who are citizens of another country must provide the following: (a) a passport or (b) government issued photo identification card. All documents must be valid; expired documents will not be accepted.
 
SEATTLE MUNICIPAL CODE 14.09
Please be advised, a landlord within the Seattle city limits is prohibited from requiring disclosure, asking about, rejecting an applicant, or taking adverse action based on any arrest record, conviction record, or criminal history, except sex offender registry information which is the result of an adult criminal conviction – as described in Subsection 14.09.025 A3., 14.09.025 A4., and 14.09.025 A5, and subject to the exclusions and legal requirements in Section 14.09.115 which may be grounds for denial. Consideration will be given to the following factors relating to the conviction(s) that requires registry on a local, state, or national sex offender registry: The nature and severity of the conviction; the number and types of convictions; the time that has elapsed since the date of conviction; age of the alleged perpetrator at the time of convictions; whether the victim was a minor at the time of the offense; evidence of good tenant history before and/or after the conviction occurred; and any supplemental information related to the individual’s rehabilitation, good conduct, and additional facts or explanations provided by the individual.
 
INCOME REQUIREMENTS
 
To qualify to live at the Property, Applicant must provide a Guarantor who satisfies the following requirements: (i) earns an annual gross income equal to three (3) times the total rent installments under the Lease Agreement and (ii) has a qualifying credit history,. To the extent required by Landlord, the Guarantor must provide proof of income, which may be in the form of two (2) recent pay stubs (four (4) if paid weekly), two (2) most recent bank statements, evidence of a financial aid award, SEVIS I-20, tax records or court documents. If Applicant satisfies the above requirements, Applicant may act as their own Guarantor. If Applicant cannot satisfy these requirements or cannot provide a Guarantor that satisfies these requirements, upon approval by Landlord, Applicant may still qualify to live at the Property, provided Applicant pays the sum of their first and last month’s rental installments on the first payment due date set forth in their Lease Agreement. Guarantors are required to provide social security numbers (or the equivalent for foreign nationals). If a Guarantor refuses to provide this information, then an Applicant may still qualify to live at the Property, but in such event, the Lease Agreement will be modified to require all rent installments to be due and payable on the 1st rent payment date under the Lease Agreement. Landlord may waive all or a portion of the requirements set forth in this paragraph at its discretion.
 
OCCUPANCY GUIDELINES
 
Except as allowed by local ordinance, maximum occupancy of each “bed space” subject to an individual liability Lease Agreement is limited to (1) one person per “bed space”. An adult with a child under (24) twenty-four months of age at the time the Lease Agreement or Renewal and Amendment of Lease Agreement is signed can lease a single “bed space”, but only in a bedroom designated as a private bedroom.
 
A group of people or person that includes a child over (24) twenty-four months of age wanting to live together in the same apartment must rent all of the “bed spaces” within the apartment as private bedrooms, with maximum occupancy limited to a total of (2) two persons per number of bedrooms, plus one additional person for the entire apartment. This includes any and all “extra” rooms that may be present within the apartment that are not kitchens, dining rooms, bathrooms, or bedrooms, such as “dens,” “lofts,” and/or “studies” etc.
 
Except as allowed by local ordinance, maximum occupancy of each apartment is limited to a total of two (2) persons per number of bedrooms, plus one (1) additional person for the entire apartment. The maximum occupancy per studio/efficiency/1-bedroom is 3 persons; 2-bedrooms is 5 persons; and 3-bedrooms is 7 persons.
 
American Campus Communities adheres to the Fair Housing Law (Title VIII) of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 as amended by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and the Fair Housing Amendment of 1988 which stipulate that it is illegal to discriminate against any person in housing practices because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, familial status or any other class protected by law.