They signed a pet addendum to the existing landlord's lease (with no pet deposit) for their 1 year old boxer who I've found has had a few accidents in the house. 

If they are renewing, we conduct the inspection to verify they are maintaining the property, not adding unauthorized tenants or pets, etc.

On the other hand, the trip to St Pet's was a once in a life time opportunity and he really wanted to go.The '57 was sold in 10-14 days and he booked the trip.  

If your tenants have a cat (if you allow pets) they'll hate open shelves.

Pets?

You want to be thorough and legal, for sure... but I am not sure there is an exact formula for any one lanldord... apart from the hard criteria like felonies and credit scores, it can be as much art as science.For your example above, don't forget your ad also can screen tenants by its term (think location, price, pet policy, amount, etc).

But the water went only partially into the living area - we may have been able to salvage that part of carpet if not for the tenant's significant damage to it (pet stains and ground in dirt stains.)

Homeowners who have pet in the house definitely want the fencing in order to safeguard the protectionof both the family and the pets.

He said he understood being a pet owner himself. 

She currently has 1 cat, which fits within our pet policy of 1 small pet up to 25lbs.