“Exposed Secrets: The Shocking Consequences of Hiding Pets from Landlords!”
I was briefly a landlord and my tenant had a dog even though it was against the rules. I knew it was there and let it slide and the doggo ended up completely ruining the new carpeting I had installed.
I didn’t go after the tenant or withhold her deposit or anything, but that experience (among many others) definitely helped convince me to sell the house and get rid of it.
Being a landlord just wasn’t for me.
I had two cats that we didn’t want to pay a deposit or the additional monthly pet fee since money was tight so we didn’t. After living there for 7 years the apartment complex started giving everyone annual inspections. The first one went by fine. The next year I got a letter telling me I had illegal cats and had to get rid of them.
So I went to the leasing office and told them I had paid the deposit when I moved in. I knew that nobody working there was working when I moved in. They couldn’t find any of my original paperwork, only my most recent lease renewals so they just started charging the monthly fee from that point on.
Not me personally, but I was maintenance supervisor at an upscale apartment complex and they didn’t allow cats. One day the manager and I were walking the property, and we looked over to a ground floor apartment, and there was a cat playing in the window. Sadly, this starts evictions proceedings. I never reported pets when I encountered them in apartments, and the manager was very sympathetic in these situations.
My mother-in-law was evicted from her apartment. She had to move in with a friend and give away her dogs. Me and my gf have one of them.
We had a tenant move in with no pets and explained if they wanted to get one, speak with us and we would come to an agreement. Several months later the tenant posted pictures on Facebook with their “new member of the family!”
We were like uhhh, hello, what did we talk about?
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