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Re: Pet deposit
by Jake
on May 12, 2012 @22:22
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"it is a priviledge, and as such it is worth paying for."
It is pocket picking. Plain and simple.
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Re: Pet deposit
by Anonymous
on May 13, 2012 @01:32
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Then they don't have to have a pet or can live elsewhere. It is the tenants choice.
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Re: Pet deposit
by Jake
on May 13, 2012 @10:45
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You really can not attract good quality tenants with a pocket picking scheme. Landlords who institute this type of practice have other money pilfering schemes that go with it. It is just bad business. Tenants will usually leave these landlords with more than enough damage and unpaid rent to get even. If people are always leaving a trashed out place with rent due, a landlord should step back and take a good look at themselves and the ways they have their hand in the tenant's pocket.
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Re: Pet deposit
by jannie (IL)
on May 14, 2012 @11:43
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It's only pocket picking if LL keeps the SD without cause. I've been T & LL, when Tenant with pet I had trouble finding rentals I'd even offer to pay additional deposit, "no" so I understand some of what T goes through.
I have people sometimes cringe when I state the pet deposit, but those are usually the same when I look at the application, can't afford the rent & SD.
I've found tenants who are willing and able to pay for pet deposit usually have well behaved animals, but as a precaution for scratches and chewing by dog and "accidents" it would cover that additional potential of more than normal wear & tear.
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Re: Pet deposit
by Jake
on May 14, 2012 @19:49
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Here is how the pet deposit is working. The landlord charges a nonrefundable deposit which he pockets while taking any damages out of the tenant deposit. It is pick pocketing any way you slice it. There is not a landlord here that will tell you it works any other way.
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Re: Pet deposit
by Anonymous
on May 15, 2012 @00:40
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What Jake the jackyl refuses to see is that if I allow a dog in my rental, there's 4 extra feet running back & forth beating a path in the carpet, and it's laying on the floor constantly, again adding additional wear & tear on the carpet. This results in an accelerated carpet replacement cost, but not due to damage, just due to accelerated wear & tear caused by the pet. That is what the pet fee covers, the acceleration in wear & tear. I charge more in rent when I'm renting to 7 people than when I am renting to 2 because the 7 will accelerate the normal wear & tear on the rental, but may not cause actual damage. So I raise the rent to account for that additional wear & tear. It's the same thing, whether you collect it up front as a pet fee or monthly as additional rent. Also, I'm taking a calculated risk in allowing a pet into my rental. There is an increased possibility of hazard and liability damage, such as dog bites and someone tripping in a hole in the yard which the dog dug. So the increased risk is compensated by the pet fee or increased rent. Besides all this, I also want to know that the tenant is committed to the pet and can afford to treat it properly with appropriate preventive meds, vet visits, etc. If the tenant is willing to pay a pet fee, I have more confidence that he is committed to the pet and will treat it in a way that will reduce the potential damage to my rental. Jake isn't familiar with any of these issues, because, really, who care if you have a dog in the trailer park?
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