Business ProfileforPatterson-Schwartz Real Estate (Hockessin)

My name is Robert Benn. I am a 28 year Marine Vietnam Combat Veteran with Purple Heart. I tell you that for a reason which I will bring out at the end of my review. Recently my son Nathan and my daughter visited the Hockessin real estate office to put in a application to rent a townhouse in the Pike Creek area of Newark Delaware. They were greeted by Deasha Barrett real estate agent for Patterson-Schwartz realtors. My son told Deasha that he wanted to put in a application for certain named Property, but he only wanted to have his name and his father (me) name on the application. Deasha told him to add Renetta (daughter) to the application just for reference. The reason for not wanting my daughter's name on the application is she is on long-term FLMA from Christiana Hospital where the works as a nurse. About two years ago she and 10 other nurses at her hospital contracted COVID-19. Renetta has been having complications from COVID every since. She is presently undergoing various tests of her heart and brain. It has been detected that she has a small blockage in her heart which causes her to pass out on occasion. Based on that information she does not get the monies she use to get while working full time. For this reason, we didn't want to put her name on the application. Low and behold, after filling out the information for leasing the townhouse in question, we were "DENIED" due to Renetta's "lack of income." REALLY!!... I could have afforded to lease the place on my income alone. This is the second time in four years that we have dealt with Patterson-Schwartz realtors and ran into this problem. On the previous time when we applied for a place in Pike Creek we were denied because of my son's questionable payment history for something 5 years in the past...we were denied. Not to mention that his credit at the time was in good standing. As a Veteran who fought for this country I feel that racial discrimination is still alive an well...