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25 March 2019 | 39 replies
Service animals are different than emotional support animals.
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11 December 2016 | 74 replies
I have... ...about 50 times each.While those stories go on and on about how people (fictitious animals) keep taking if you keep giving, what they don't cover is once you stop... you stop.Basically the future problems are now.I have a property that I was planning on rehabbing and renting out.It currently has the previous renters of two years inside.They want to pay and stay for another month until school ends for the kids and then get out or stay and pay the market rent.If they don't pass the rental application process, they are out.
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7 May 2016 | 34 replies
If an SFH (single family house) most people require the tenant to cut the grass or keep up with the landscaping - otherwise they get charged for servicing the property's landscaping.If no animals or no waterbeds, make sure you are abundantly clear on this.
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10 May 2016 | 4 replies
., I charge a deposit large enough to assume an animal will be involved, but have the right to reduce if there are none.
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27 April 2016 | 85 replies
I want to make sure you thoroughly understand this piece since you are going it alone.The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination against prospective tenants and current tenants on the basis of the following characteristics or "protected classes": race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, and familial status.
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13 April 2016 | 24 replies
And, we actually never had anyone want a reasonable accommodation to have a companion animal.
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21 April 2016 | 13 replies
$400 animal/pet fee for first then 200 each additional animal/pet maximum two. $35 additional fee for each pet.I list it as a fee and not a deposit because it's not refundable.
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3 June 2015 | 14 replies
So, nope, you don't have to fix something immediately, even if it's a habitability problem.http://www.floridabar.org/tfb/TFBConsum.nsf/0a92a6...There are no laws that say you have to provide any kind of accommodations for an animal.
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28 November 2015 | 12 replies
Dogs or other animals is my guess.