“Exposed Secrets: The Shocking Consequences of Hiding Pets from Landlords!”
When i moved in, i had one cat and gave the office paperwork for him. i ended up getting a couple more without telling them and it was fine for a year until a maintenance man snitched and the office sent me a letter saying i had an unauthorized pet. i went up there and said i had paperwork but they said they lost it. because i was moving within the next two months, they just told me to not worry about it and now i have 6 cats and my landlord loves them and has offered to give me more.
Landlord here.
We had a tenant that paid the pet charge for *one* dog. We had it in the lease that *one* dog was allowed. It’s a small house, small yard. It’s reasonable.
They got another dog who looked almost exactly like the first one. They walked the dogs in the neighborhood, so the neighbors knew there were two dogs. Our other tenant asked if the leases were updated to allow more than one dog because tenant 1 had two dogs now.
We asked tenant 1 if they had more than one dog. They denied it. We scheduled a home inspection and gave them the legally required notice (48 hours in our location). They hid the second dog evidence and they had the second dog off the property.
A few weeks later, we happened to be in the neighborhood and they were walking the dogs. We stopped to talk. I wasn’t pleased about the deception, but my husband was lenient and upped the rent and additional pet charge (they were smaller dogs).
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