After the better part a morning deal with an irrate perspective tenant over my pet fees. I'm very curious about the legal aspect of pet fees. Is it illegal to charge pet fees to an emotional or service animal. I'm cur...
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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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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 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 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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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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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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What is your policy on cats in a rental & why do you stand for your policy?Thank you!
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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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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...