Emotional Support Animal

[Brian Williams]

Request legal advice. We are small time investors with a property in SE North Carolina and my tenant had her LCSW provide medical paperwork requiring an emotional support animal (ESA). As we are in compliance with fair housing laws we of course complied with her request to have a cat even though the property was listed as “no pets”. She recently requested to get a second cat to keep her ESA company throughout the day while she was at work. We denied the request. Our tenant then got another letter from her LCSW stating the need for (2) emotional support animals to deal with her patients anxiety.

Do we have grounds to deny the request? How many ESAs can one person have? In new territory on this subject. Thanks in advance!