In any case, it would be interesting to hear feedbacks from tenants about their experience, hints, pet resume effectiveness and from landlords (opinion about renting with pets, documents that are required, extra fees etc.).

Given the break-ins, he requested a dog for his daughter, but our current lease prohibits pets.

In Hawaii you can take one month's rent maximum as deposit, and another one month's rent in addition as a pet deposit if the tenant has pets.Here's a link to the landlord tenant codehttps://cca.hawaii.gov/hfic/files/2013/03/landlord...Now, depending on which County your property is located in, there may be additional regulations.

The other docs you'll want and they are required to provide are: - condo docs - rules and regs - budget - it appears you have Standard rule of thumb q's with condos- can you have pets or ESA only? 

Think of all the things that could go wrong and see if the lease addresses them: unauthorized pets or tenants, early termination, security deposit, lease violations, late rent, eviction, lawn maintenance, parking, etc.5.

If you add clauses to your lease that tack MONETARY penalties to unauthorized occupants, pets, smoking - then you WOULD be able to evict for non-payment, no?  

I don't know about MA laws, but if it is in their current lease about pets, then you have to honor the current lease. 

The previous landlord's manager didn't charge him for any pet deposit!!!

I see people charging that for pets in my area, but not for cleaning.

This is why I don't allow pets, I have one of the best trained dogs and she has had an accident twice in 8 years that cost me.