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Hi BP, I am curious the process others use when screening potential tenants to fill a vacancy (with a standard 12 month lease). I own 4 buy and hold units and have a fixed standard I use that weeds out a lot of folks ...
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I have a new tenant that's been in our unit for a month. On her application she stated that she had no dog. We recently found out that she has a dog. On our application any pets have to be approved and that there is ...
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In all my leases I add a $25 per dog or cat pet-rent on top of a non-refundable pet deposit. An applicant wants me to add some verbiage indicating if his dog kicks the bucket, I will reduce the rent by $25. That was a...
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My wife and I are in a little bit of a pickle. We have a Tenant that is in violation of their lease because they have an additional pet on property.
We inherited the tenants from the purchase of the rent...
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Hi All,Just wanted to solicit some feedback from those with more experience around tenants with emotional support animals. To shorten the whole story, basically during a renewal of a tenant they mentioned that they n...
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What is your policy on cats in a rental & why do you stand for your policy?Thank you!
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Hi everyone. I have potential tenants who want to rent my house, and they have three dogs and two cats. Yeah, I know that's a LOT of pets. I've had a dog - a small dog - in my house for eight years, and there's been n...
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Hi everyone,We have a family interested in our rental property who has a mastif and they’ve asked if we’re open to them having it. The listing says no pets but they have asked anyway. Our insurance company said mastif...
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Hello, this is long so sorry in advance. :)I've been following this forum for over a year. Now that I'm a host I wanted to give back and contribute to the forum with our experience.
Our journey in the STR space be...
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I'm in Florida and I have been in the business for over twenty-five years.In recent months, we have had a high number of tenants going to websites to get an ESA certification. They then tell us that they are allowed t...