No Pets?

[Chris Buesing]

I'm sure no one has ever had this happen.  I got through showing the property and hand the prospective tenants their rental app, and she looks at me and says, "oh, there's no pets?  I have a cat."  

Ugh.  

[Matt Geerts]

Here in Ontario you can't charge a pet deposit. You can't evict for pets, no matter how many times they chew the baseboards or piss on the laminate. Good luck trying to get an order to pay for pet damages. Every pet is their owner's little angel. My first rental property was responded first by 5 pet-owners clearly ignoring the no-pets statement in the ad and emailing me about how wonderful their three dogs are, or their 6 month old shepherd, or their two old cats.

Somehow the Ontario govt seems to think that not allowing pet deposits or evicting for pets is protecting people. All it does is completely close my doors to pet people. That feels awful for me because I AM a pet person. ...and let me tell you, they are little angels. Ha!

NO PETS.