“Exposed Secrets: The Shocking Consequences of Hiding Pets from Landlords!”
Nice quiet Hungarian father and son living there now. Never hear anything from their apartment.
My landlord came in to the apartment one day to talk about something (can’t remember what). The cat I’d gotten about 3 months prior jumped in through the window and started winding in between the landlord’s legs, purring like a tractor.
The landlord looked down and then looked at me. I looked at him, dead in the eyes. Then we both just maintained a weird amount of eye contact while we finished the conversation and he left, and we never spoke of it again. When I moved out the landlord returned more than my original deposit (assuming accidentally). I think he just liked having an easy, generally trouble-free tenant and chose to let it slide.
Got dobbed in by the people living behind us because my cat would sit in the window and watch them walk by every day. I told the property manager I was pet sitting for my parents and then kept the blinds down for a couple of months. Then emailed the PM again and told them my parents were permanently moving overseas and I needed to take in their cat because she had nowhere else to go.
I’m sure they would’ve seen straight through the lie but luckily the laws around renting with pets in my state were due to change in a few months anyway so we got approved.
Found a cat while renting a pet free apartment, kept him.
Landlord came over for some weird reason but he saw the cat. I just said i was cat sitting. That was it
Years later my now wife and i moved into a pet friendly place together and let the landlord know we had a small parrot (green quaker), she was fine with it and we didn’t need to pay anything additional for the bird. About 6mo later she called and asked if we had a bird, told her, “ya, you met her”. She then went on a on about how she never met this bird, didn’t know we had a bird, and that their were notice complaints (this bird is weirdly silent…always has been). We just rolled our eyes and rehomed our bird my mother-in-laws house for a year till we could move.
My parents had a “no pet” clause for the tenat that lived in the downstairs apartment of our house. His daughter left her toy poodle for him to watch for a few days and my dad saw him. According to my mother and the tenant (who was an amazing person) my father got down on the ground with the dog saying “oh whose a good boy, it’s you!”
The dog was allowed to visit anytime.
Yup. Yo the point that when that a*****e (the cat) knocked a statue in the toilet I paid to have it replaced (it was lodged in the U bend).
Years later I was at my landlords house and noticed their kitties so I asked if pets were allowed.
What kind? They ask.
Kitties I say
Sure no problem. They respond.
Cool how much is the pet deposit (fully knowing he’s already damaged carpet from a roommate locking him in the closet)
Kitties? No deposit they say.
Now I’ve 4 and they’re known by the landlord who doesn’t care.
As a landlord I’ve had it happen to me twice.
First time, they hid a dog from me. Came over to fix something and saw the pup. They said it was a friends dog that they were pet sitting. 6 months later came over for something, same dog.
I told them I didn’t care as long as it’s had its shots and they give a $300 pet deposit.
Second time they told me they had a cat when they moved in. Found a second cat locked in the basement. Told them it was a $300 flat deposit, not per pet.
The most recent tenant had a dog that they told me about. It destroyed a door when it accidentally locked itself in a room. :/. Then I got the carpets cleaned and the cleaning guy said he found a lot of dog pee in one room – but I suspect that was the dog from the first paragraph.
I really don’t care as long as people don’t lie to me about it and I find out about it. That just breaks my trust and makes me wonder what else they’re hiding. .
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.
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