“Exposed Secrets: The Shocking Consequences of Hiding Pets from Landlords!”
Two weeks later, I get a knock at the door. It’s the property manager with a pet gift basket, telling me that my cat was the reason they caught an employee embezzling tens of thousands of dollars – the off-cycle check knocked over the precarious tower of cards one of the receptionists had been maintaining, and it all came tumbling down. Kitty got lots of treats that night lol.
Not my story, but my fiancé’s friend: He and his now ex gf had 5 cats, 2 ferrets and over 10 guinea pigs in their apartment. They started off with a couple cats, snuck them in. Collection of animals grew over time. They lived there for a good few years.. eventually, people began to complain of the smells and noises they heard. Whenever there was an inspection. they’d know ahead of time so they would go bring the animals to a family members house or whatever. One day, landlord got enough complaints so he went to check out the apartment unplanned. Did not call them. Found the animals, gave them a hefty fine and kicked them out rightfully so. That apartment just reeked. it was horrible.
I never hid pets myself, but I worked in a nebulous leasing / maintenance role during college and had a couple run ins with unfriendly dogs that were not supposed to be in an apartment. Nothing like having a large dog appear out of nowhere to bark at you when you’re just there to update the fire extinguisher.
We also had people abandon pets we didn’t know were there a number of times and that was always horrible to varying degrees. There were a couple times we found really starved animals and didn’t know if they were neglected before or if the people bailed and didn’t tell us.
Not mine but my two of roommates had a dog each when I was in college. We had been having sink/garbage disposal issues and had submitted a work order for it, and the maintenance guy ended up coming over when everyone was out. Both of the dogs were in their cages, but only one barked when they heard him come in. This scared the other dog? Or something because he ended up painting the wall behind his cage in brown. Maintenance guy heard this, goes to check it out, and finds the poor dog as well as the wall covered in poop. That was a crazy situation to go back home to now that I think about it.
Rented a no-pets apartment but hid my cat for about six months. One day, my landlord randomly showed up for an inspection, and my cat walked right up to him. I thought I was screwed, but he just said, “I hope she doesn’t cause any trouble” and let it slide. Got lucky though—some people do get hit with eviction or fees. It’s definitely a gamble.
College apartment complex. My d*****s roommate found a cat on the side of the street and decided to adopt it (even though I was allergic to it). It scratched up the 2 couches and walls in the main shared space.
The way the apartment found out is she cut a square in the window blinds for the cat to look out – on the first floor. An apartment employee walked by and saw the cat sitting in the window. Ended up costing her ~$4k in fines and replacement couches.
I got evicted. I had a 6 month old cat I wasn’t supposed to, and she got in the windowsill one day when I was at work. They said their policy was due to their maintenance man having severe allergies, but they had another building I could move into that did allow pets. Additional bedroom, sun porch, dishwasher, and central air for only $100 more in rent, which I was fine with. Moved to the new place, no problem. But? SAME maintenance man with the supposed several allergies 🤔.
My downstairs neighbours had a cat. They didn’t tell the rental company that manages the apartments. But they got found out because the cat would often sit in the window and was spotted by a staff member of the agency who was there to check on the state of the bins out the back (specifically those belonging to that apartment as they had repeatedly failed to keep up with bin collection dates for weeks at a time and several of us – residents, the shop downstairs and neighbouring properties- had complained).
The cat was the last straw. They were messy and had trashed the communal area at the back of the property. He literally dismantled his and his friends cars in the parking area and left everything lying around (tools, car parts etc) for months on end. He’d rev his engine at 5am for 20 minutes before roaring off to work. The cat was an indoor cat, which is fine…if you’re cleaning up the litter tray regularly. He and his girlfriend were not. So the cat would p**s and s**t all over the apartment. You could smell the ammonia in the corridor.
I know that they paid a refundable deposit on the apartment equivalent to one month’s rent (£500 at the time of moving in). They did not see a penny of that returned to them because the apartment had to be fumigated, repainted and re-carpeted due to the cat s**t, p**s and oil from him dicking about with his car. I don’t think they vacuumed more than twice in the year and a half they were there. They nearly set their kitchen on fire twice. And they were forever leaving the communal entrance door unlocked which led to randoms walking into the building on several occasions. I wouldn’t have had any problem with them having a pet if they actually bothered to look after it (and the property).
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