OT- This one takes the cake!

Greg1959 · May 13, 2014

I have a house for rent. Put it on CL. One of the stipulations is NO PETS.

Lady calls and wants to look at the house. She asks why I have a no pet policy. I explain to her that I have experienced renters that leave pets unattended and they destroy a home.

She then says.. Oh, but, my pet is a service Dog. I said Well, that is a different subject and will gladly accommodate you.

She then says that my dog stays outside. I asked her "How does the dog 'Assist' you if it is outside"? She replied, "Well he barks if someone comes up".

I unloaded on her. It's not a service dog!

I gotta stop here because, if I posted what I said to her...this thread would go poof.

Greg

Goose · May 13, 2014

I know what you mean. When I owned a rental house, every single time I had a major disaster with a renter, there was a dog at the bottom of it.

The same renter, a Deputy Sheriff, rented the house while I still owned it and he's still living in it. When I leased it to him, we went through the lease clauses one by one. I had him read back to me the "NO PETS" clause so there would be no misunderstanding. Three days later, he called me, said his brother had acquired a hunting dog, and asked if it was OK to keep it at the house he had just rented.

I shot that idea down in a hurry. You can't tell me they didn't have that planned in advance.

Don-Wi · May 13, 2014

We allow dogs, but not cats in our rental. Dogs don't seem to be much of a problem.

When I was showing the house a few years ago, good tenants were impossible to find. Out of the 30 our do I showed through the house, probably 20 of them asked about their pit bull. That's one dog our insurance said absolutely no to. One prospect said they'd but insurance for our farm and the house so they could live there.....

Yeah right. They were in way over their heads.

Donovan from Wisconsin

MarkB_MI · May 14, 2014

My wife and I have several rentals, and it's our experience that renters will get dogs even if the lease says "no pets" and they claim to have no pets when they apply. We usually tack an extra fifty bucks onto the monthly rent if the renter has a dog.

One landlord I know had an interesting approach: He advertises "dogs and cats welcome", then asks renters how many pets they have on the rental application. He then trash-cans all the applications with pets.

NEKS · May 14, 2014

Did have a rental and think the dogs would of taken better care of it then the renters. Even told a neighbor one time to burn it down when I am out of town sometime. Seems like them low life people always have dogs or cats and can't pay the rent.

Donald Lehman · May 14, 2014

This "service dog" thing is one of the most abused and misused things you can imagine. My wife works at a box store and you can't believe the bullspit that goes on with people bringing their "service dogs" (and ferrets and every other kind of critter you can imagine) in the store. On the local newz junky there was an article by a air line flight attendent about this problem being out of control on the airlines, too.

Doesn't say much for our society when people are so mentally screwed up they can't go to the grocery store without getting the DT's if they don't have their little poochy with them.

I like the idea of advertising pets welcome and trash canning the applications with pets. However I would think I would be pretty quiet about that. I would think that is a lawsuit waiting to happen if a potential renter got ahold of that.

rrlund · May 14, 2014

There was a story real similar to that on the news here a few weeks ago. A woman had a Pit Bull. The trailer she was renting had been sold and she needed to get out. She applied for an apartment where pets are allowed,but NO Pit Bulls. She pitched a fit,went to the "Investigative Team" from the TV news claiming it was a service dog for "emotional support".

Hay hay hay · May 15, 2014

It is part of an irresponsibilty mentality and life style we all see everyday. The car going the fastest and driving the most reckless is some gal on a $500 cell phone. The car has bad tires, no brakes and no insurance. She has 3 kids by 3 guys and can't feed them, but she adopts a stray dog to go with the other 2 she already has. And when payday comes, instead of paying the rent or insurance, she gets another tattoo.

How did we get here? I sold the rental property long ago. I like money, but not enough to deal with that over and over.

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