Topic 6 of 58: Should landlords allow pets?
Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (18:08) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Should landlords allow pets? Dogs? Cats?
What can go wrong? What should be the groundrules?
What about folks that can't take care of their pets?
18 responses total.
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Response 1 of 18: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (18:50) * 1 lines
What about folks who WON'T take care of their children? That is a bigger annoyance, yet you are not allowed to discriminate against them for having children. Somewhere, sometime, accountability must come back into the picture and pets as well as children will be welcome additions to the mix. Nothing is more dreary than an elderly facility with neither of them...
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Response 2 of 18: Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (20:21) * 5 lines
that's why landlords don't allow children nor pets in some places.
i think a clause should be in the contracts that say you can have pets but if they aren't taken care of, the animal shelter will be called and charges will be filed. damages should be payed for by the tenant.
(don't wanna go there with kids, because some people act like they're pets as in: oh, lookit how cute they are, i want one and then when they lose the cuteness, don't want to have anything to do with them and i could just go off)
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Response 3 of 18: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (20:52) * 9 lines
I've been allowing pets at my place in Cedar Creek, but sometimes it
results in proglems, for example Anita and her cats brought fleas, I had
to do an expensive flea treatment. And Helen's cat shits on the floor and
she doesn't know how to clean it up. And now I have a lady with two dogs
about to bring them Sunday and she says they might eat cats. Sometimes I
think it's foolish to allow pets, because of these kinds of situations but
I haven't drawn the line yet.
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Response 4 of 18: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (21:14) * 1 lines
You are a very patient man, Terry (or else these ladies are to die for)...no amount of damage is worth the grief of having to recify it yourself. If they cannot take proper care of their animals (to health department standards), they should have to make the choice of buying their own housing (usually out of the question) or visiting an animal elsewhere. I am very cold-blooded about this because I have had stuff ruined by other people's animals, and they do not seem to care!
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Response 5 of 18: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (21:44) * 7 lines
It's resolving itself because Tess is moving out (the lady with the two
cat eating dogs) and Helen is moving out in another month. She has a dog
she calls a "sharpei" or something and and aging cat that can't keep in
togetgher in the house and "marks" it's territory. The Persian cat in
Sylvia's room is no problem, it's well trained and a scaredy cat.
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Response 6 of 18: Isabel (Isabel) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (21:48) * 1 lines
In Germany they take your animals away, if you don't care for them as you should. You can call an Animal Right Club or the animal shelter, if you witness somebody who does wrong ( like beating or neglecting), they will look after it, and if neccesary, take the animals with them. This does not happen seldom!
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Response 7 of 18: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (01:52) * 1 lines
That is a great idea, Isabel! Wish we had such compassion here. Terry, I am delighted your problems will resolve themselves for you - my favorite way to deal with things!
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Response 8 of 18: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (11:11) * 3 lines
Great idea indeed Isabel and in some counties that is an acceptable and working program...
too bad it's more difficult to demand children get proper treatment in some cases!
(i could go off too Wolfie!)
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Response 9 of 18: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (13:18) * 7 lines
The dog could be a Shai Pei, a chinese breed. Terry, that's a difficult question you pose, because as life-long tennant, I'd say "Yeah, any time!". But then, there's the investment and peace in the place to consider. Most landlords draw the line at small pets (fish, birds, guinea pigs, etc.), and ban cats and dogs.
Dogs are the main cause for trouble. Many owners may not believe this, but a lot canines go mad barking (possibly because they are barking mad) when their people leave the flat. Miraculously, they stop the terror as soon as they hear the car's engine coming back.
Cats and dogs can both do serious damage to wooden doors and windows, even wooden floor-boards. If you rent out with wall-to-wall carpeting and furnished, that's arguments against pets.
You can either calculate that cost into the rent, or check if everything is left intact after the tennant moved out - before handing back a certain deposit they made at the biginning of their renting term there (remember - deposits must be invested securely so they gain interest from it!).
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Response 10 of 18: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (17:28) * 7 lines
Good advice and thanks for the spell check. Like I say, it's resolving
itself since Tess, a lovely woman, found herself a new place. I have two
home networking guys moving in who work at http://www.rizer.com who don't
have any pets. And Helen is moving out at the end of October. She got
her own land and is moving a house there.
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Response 11 of 18: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (04:29) * 1 lines
I think it is just not fair on dogs to keep them in a flat. Walking them once a day isn't enough.
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Response 12 of 18: Gi (patas) * Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (04:13) * 6 lines
Hi all. Twelve years ago I was living on my own and feeling rather lonely and decided I wanted a dog and was ready to take responsability for it.
I lived in a flat, and didn't have regular hours, so I thought "small dog", although the only dogs I knew I liked were big ones.
I bought a Yorkshire Terrier, a small dog who thinks it is a big one. I house-trained him like a cat so I didn't have to worry about not being able to take him out for long periods during the day (and night).
Still, when he got really bored and nervous about my absence, he would pee on my books...
I agree that if you rent a furnished place owning a pet should be out (or vice-versa) or you should be prepared to pay for the damage done.
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Response 13 of 18: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (04:32) * 1 lines
You're right. Having a pet is a bit like having a kid. You have to be prepared to take the same kind of responsibility for the damage they can cause, otherwise you'll have a real hard time dealing with them.
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Response 14 of 18: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (18:26) * 1 lines
...and so will everyone else!
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Response 15 of 18: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (03:36) * 1 lines
yep!
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Response 16 of 18: Cheryl (CherylB) * Wed, Sep 4, 2002 (17:23) * 17 lines
If you ever lived in an apartment and thought that you had irritating neighbors. Can you imagine living in this building.
Relief as the Cows Upstairs Move Out
Fri Aug 30,10:26 AM ET
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish woman has begun selling the cows she kept in upstairs apartments in the city of Trabzon, to the relief of her neighbors.
Local alderman Osman Terzi said health and safety officials had ordered the cows to be cleared out of the first and third floors of the building in the Black Sea port city.
"I have learned that Fatma Kocaman has started selling her cows, which is a very pleasing development," the Anatolian news agency quoted him saying on Thursday. It said she had kept "a large number" of cows there.
"It's hard to believe someone would keep cows in an apartment. For years me and the locals have wondered what to do...The area has suffered a lot. Noise, smell and manure everywhere make a very ugly scene," Terzi said.
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Response 17 of 18: GeoCritter (MarciaH) * Mon, Oct 17, 2005 (00:50) * 1 lines
COWS??? That is another part of Kansas from here !
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Response 18 of 18: SpringArker (cfadm) * Sun, Jul 2, 2006 (10:09) * 1 lines
Cats, yes. Dogs, big maybe.
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