Re: Pet Deposit, How Much - Landlord Forum thread 344927

Re: Pet Deposit, How Much by AK (MD) on May 10, 2016 @17:08

I'm a landlord. To all those who are recommending to take the tenant in court as opposed to refundable/non-refundable deposit.
There are two kinds of tenants - ones who care about what goes in their record and ones who don't care. You don't know upfront before leasing whether you're getting a tenant who cares or not. Sure, credit history and past record helps.
My point - you can take the person to court and court may rule judgement in favor of landlord BUT what if Tenant decides not to abide by the judgement and decides not to pay the judgement charges?
This happens all the time. In the end, it is the Landlords loss.
SO...I say do the agreement before - Monthly pet fee / deposit - refudable / non-refundable whatever is agreed upon. (has to be a reasonable amount ofcourse).

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