Yeah, I've done the same thing when trying to rent when I was a young parent.  My wife would apply at a rental property and be told there were no vacancies.  I'd later apply at the SAME rental and be shown several vacancies--in the inimitable words of Gomer Pyle, "surprise, surprise".  The different reception was because she's black, and I'm not.  Got to the point where I couldn't bring my wife and kids with me to look for a place to rent.  Trumpy the KKKlown is by no means the only rental property owner guilty of this.  And they pretty much get away with it, just like he did.