Complainant's stepbrother, (redacted), wrote a letter to the board requesting a waiver to the "no pet" policy as a condition of purchasing the unit. The letter stated (redacted) has a severe hearing impediment, and she had two cats that would alert her to the telephone and doorbell, therefore, complainant needed a waiver to the "no pets" policy.

Telephone? Why does God need a spaceship? someone capable of using a telephone qualify as deaf enough to be disabled under the Fair Housing Act? If your hearing is such that you can't hear a ring, I'm not sure what utility you'd have in a phone, beyond dialing an emergency hotline.

I guess it's possible this had merit. The document was very sloppily written. For example, "no pets" policy was written inconsistently. One would imagine it written in a uniform fashion, but I saw "no pet", "no pets", and even "no-pets" with a hyphen. Perhaps, in a document so poorly written, the detail about the telephone was just carelessly inserted through one of those brain hiccups most people experience sometimes (Here's your sign).