It has less to do with the noise, and the mechanic admission, and more to do with the perception of what kind of person you are PERCEIVED to be.
Landlords always look for every single sign they can that they won't have to be dealing with a headache down the road. Evictions are a pain in the ass, and so they can often go overboard looking for an over-the-top angelic, salt of the earth type with perfect credit and 3 degrees. Background checks and people who look great on paper can often mean very little these days when it comes to indicating if a person is clean, orderly, and pays rent on time. So its common to look for "signs"
For a non-motorcyclist, the perception of who you are is based heavily on the stigma of your motorcycles (it isn't just confined to the road) Unless you're Don Trump Rich, your motorcycles are a sign of recklessness and irresponsibility. Of course this is not true, but perception is reality to almost everyone, and for a landlord, who has to deal with the complications of a potentially bad tenant, they can often be hypersensitive to any sign that is not purely positive. If they don't ride, then riding a motorcycle is not a positive sign.
Of course that's completely unfair and rarely accurate, but its there because of the portrayal on the news and in the media and the few asshats on bikes that give all other riders a bad name, and for some reason, the bad things are always so much easier to believe.
The landlords don't know you, so they do what most humans do instead; they judge you. It's the downside of riding, and many other things besides.
We all do it in some form. If you were going to buy a bike and had no idea how it was maintained, but when you drove up to the house and the owner was vacuuming his garage and the the entire garage was spotless clean, you'd get a very warm fuzzy about the condition of the bike, even though there might be absolutely no correlation to the condition of the garage and the condition of the bike. Your belief is driven by your perception.
The biggest thing you have to contend with unfortunately, is that the next rental application is going to be from a middle aged guy driving a Camry and all other things being equal, your application is going to be placed under his. Getting angry about it is about all one can do
I would wager that rental discrimination against motorcycle riders is actually very prevalent. I know this because I associate with landlords, and I hear what they say in conversation. Adding to the problem is that this kind of discrimination can rarely if ever be proven, especially in a time of housing shortage.
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