I have a possible tenant stating they do not have to pay a non refundable pet fee to have two small dogs live with them in our property because they are therapy dogs for her dad of which she is the caretaker for.

Yoga retreats that would end up in carpet burned from incense, athletic groups using the house as a food prep/staging area, etc.

Don that is a very tragic event I am sure he has not dealt with fully if he has turned to drugs.You can't just stop doing something.You have to replace it with something else to fill the space.WHITE KNUCKLING and WILL POWER will eventually only lead to failure.My mom worked for years and years at a violence center for women and dealt with people that had issues.You can guide them and try to show the way but at the end of the day it is their choice to want to live or die.Just take in every moment your son is present and in the moment with you and try to cherish those memories.Right now your main goal is to protect the innocent children and take away any bad modeling behavior they are witnessing that can impact them for life.When you kick a habit you have to do something else.Example: Smoking - Bike Riding,Drinking- going to church,drugs-exercise etc.Everyone has stress in their lives and that will never change.As we get older the stress does not go away it just transforms into something else.You might used to have worried about money,then it's your kids,then it's old age,mortality etc.Until your son sees a counselor to deal with these issues and learn coping skills he is going to medicate himself to not feel anything.The first few sessions of therapy is just small talk.The real work begins later on and either people commit and dig in to work on issues or say "Oh I am fine now and get scared and run away".Many people go to their pastor but I feel they are not qualified as a drug abuse specialist or a licensed therapist to help them with situations like that.Don you don't control your son but YOU DO control how you react to what he does and how it impacts your life and family.Maybe you feel guilty for him seeing his mom go through that and enabled him out of guilt to make yourself feel better in the moment.All you can do everyday is work on yourself.If you do that you can have a positive impact on him that can do nothing but help.

Perhaps it was just a symbolic way of 'repaying' the boyfriend that slashed the cushions...and-- cheaper than therapy!

Now I'm running into the therapy animal question...i have a no pet policy but they're asking to negotiate a pet deposit for the therapy animal.

I talk to the agent, ask about themselves, how they came upon the client, ask about their client & so on but I do not talk about the offer, primarily because I have not formally written it out precisely because I am looking for clues.I have done this for years & the vast majority of the time (85-90%) of the time, my clients get a great deal AND the other side doesn’t feel manipulated or cheated by a hustler.I learned much of these techniques from taking a deep dive & studying Neurolinguistics along with psychology therapy techniques to a point where I would have a Masters if I had gone to college - I think I hold the record for dropping out of college - 7 times & completing 2 semesters. 

I have an animal policy, an animal application, an animal agreement, etc.ESA, comfort, and therapy animals are not pets!

Emotional support animals, comfort animals, and therapy dogs are not service animals under Title II and Title III of the ADA. 

But as one of our neighbors said "8 sounds like a party"....so we took the 2 upstairs bedrooms and made them into an Office and 'Yoga Room'.

A pet doesn't need to be a trained service animal, many are therapy/companion animals.