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I am in Illinois. I will allow a single dog of certain breeds and age in most of my rentals. there is an additional $50 a month charge and an additional 600 pet deposit. I have a potential tenant that is interest...
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What's your take on how to handle a situation where a tenant has a guest visitor who will be staying for a week and the visitor has a dog she wants to bring along during her stay. Do you charge anything for the visito...
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I have run into a tenant that had decided to take a very legalistic approach with me following a request for access to the property. A few days later I followed with a proper notice of intent to inspect the property....
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Hi, Met a lovely young couple who are interested in renting our luxury condo in Palo Alto. The only thing I am hesitating about is they have a corgi dog. She said it is her psychologist prescribed service dog to ease ...
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What's your worst ESA / service animal story? Hopefully that's well behind you...I've long said that it will take big money lobbyists (likely from the air travel industry) to push into motion some type of regulation o...
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Still trying to understand what we have to do to accommodate a service animal, but long story short, we have a tenant (the only person listed on the lease) that we have noticed the smell of dog and cat when our lease...
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Hi Fellow BP Fans,Recently I've had conflicts at both my short-term rental and a traditional rental with people claiming the pet policies don't apply to their support dogs. I have two questions in regards to this:1. ...
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My new tenant has a dog and they have an ESA certificate from doctor. Can I legally charge them pet rent? its a big brown lab. In my understanding I thought you can't deny someone with a ESA but you should still be ab...
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I had a tenant move in in December and sign a lease knowing i don’t allow pets. At the end of the month she buys a puppy. I tell her I don’t allow pets on that property. She sends me a BS service animal registration. ...
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We have a single family residential property with a large fenced backyard great for dogs. We are open to dogs and other pets such as cats and hamsters (no birds). Are there any suggestions on what needs to be defined ...