“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.
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