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Diplomatic immunity is from criminal charges and not absolute - their country gets asked to waive it and often does depending on the person and situation. It doesn’t protect them from civil lawsuits, which is what eviction or suit for damages like rent would be. I wouldn’t worry about that aspect. If anything it’s a reputable job with some level of background check done.
No the problem is they can not pay or cause damages and then flee the country so you either can’t get to them in a lawsuit or it’s prohibitively expensive to do so… and then can’t put a judgement lien on their stuff cause they’re gone.
You’re also not supposed to be discriminating against people based on things like national origin, so keep that in mind. There’s stuff you can do and stuff you can’t.
First of all, discrimination on par with what COO1 mentioned is almost impossible to prove. But if someone works for a diplomat, they’re rather stable career-wise, I should imagine. I once rented the ground floor apartment to a person and his family from China. He had no SSN and no job—no one else would rent to him. But he had an EB-5 visa. You’d think NYC landlords would be savvy on that subject, but apparently not. But I knew how much money had to have had in the bank. One of the best tenants I ever dealt with. I’d imagine a diplomat would be similarly as safe if a bet. But it is correct that diplomatic immunity doesn’t have anything to do with cam issue like this. But my former tenant could have gone back to China and I would have had no reasonable possibility of collection. But I think diplomats and people e with hundreds of thousands of dollars aren’t likely to skip out on rent.
Maybe take a higher security deposit, and def collect first and last months rent.
The thing is, one month of not paying rent and you can evict, so maybe just be more on top of this tenant and implement the appropriate legal proceedings sooner than later, should you need to. You then have their security deposit to use to cover that one or two months rent that went unpaid.