RPM Alamo - taking entire pet fee and rent as their profit

[Allen L.]

I have a property managed by Real Property Management Alamo for the past 8 months. I just found out that the tenant has a pet through reviewing a work order which stated that the tenant has a pet in property and spoke to RPM about it. The property manager stated that the pet addendum is between the property management company and the tenant, and I have no claim to the pet fee and the monthly pet rent. 

My fellow SA landlords, is this standard? I have properties in 3 states and this is the first time I've heard such an outrageous thing. Didn't know RPM was such a shady company. What is my recourse?

[Scott White]

I don't know what's standard, but this seems counterintuitive to me. Isn't the point of pet rent to pad you against the damages pets can do to a place? So you can put away some extra reserves for carpet cleaning and chewed windowsills and that sort of thing?

I understand that a PM might have an up-front cost for some sort of initial pet screening service ... but beyond that, what extra regular management tasks would pets incur for the PM, that would justify them keeping the monthly rent?!? I just don't get it.