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Re: ESA Emotional Support Animals - Landlord Forum thread 359018

Re: ESA Emotional Support Animals by Garry on February 6, 2019 @14:26

                              
NO!! ABSOLUTELY NOT!! You are entitled to ONE letter from a Dr, or other professional that can verify the tenant needs a ESA. IF you check it out and it's ok by you, the letter is good for as long as the T lives there. The real question is, WHY are you so hung-up on animals in general? I have always for the past 39 years, allowed a small pet in my places for and additional deposit. So now, with the ESA laws, it just means I cannot ask for more money for that same animal. The tenants STILL have to clean up after their ESA, and the ESA cannot bother other people or create problems for the neighborhood. In all my years of being a LL, I have found that the actual tenants, and/or their children, created a LOT more damages than animals EVER did. Not only that, but in the past 5 years in my city, I have seen 2-3 large apartment complexes (100-200 units) go from a no pet policy, to taking any size animal. WHY?? Because they were losing out on a LOT of good tenants, that their only "problem/crime" was they had a pet. Those otherwise GOOD tenants were going to apartments where their children(pets) were allowed.

Daniel, instead of trying to "get around" the ESA laws, EMBRACE them. ADVERTISE that you will take dogs and cats with a deposit, and no deposit for their provable ESA. I think you will find you will get a lot more potential tenants applying for your places than you ever did before.
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Re: ESA Emotional Support Animals by Daniel (CA) on February 10, 2019 @15:43 [ Reply ]
Thank you for your comments. But your comments point out the exact problem with the issue. It is not the LL that is getting around the ESA laws but it's the tenants that are circumventing the no pet policies.

ESA pets is just another term used for having pets. Every pet owner is someone that gains emotional support from bonding with their animals. The fact is that these people are using a medical excuse. It is like Eddie Murphy in trading places....

So if it is a medical necessity, then it should be reevaluated regularly just like any other ailment. So all of a sudden just because the impact is only affecting LL so we're not entitled to general accepted practice that prescriptions expire 6-months to a year? Are we saying that once and ESA moves in then the LL has waived the pet policy?

Pet policies is a separate debate than ESAs.

I had an immaculate tenant move out and she had some cats.
The empty unit smelled like cat urine, it took a month to treat the hardwood floors. there was a clump of cat hair under the Kenmore Stove/oven.

I am a pet person, my cat was invaluable this year.

While service animals require certification ESA's do not! Or do service animals not require it anymore?
Re: ESA Emotional Support Animals by Daniel (CA) on February 15, 2019 @14:52 [ Reply ]
In a non-rent controlled unit, then your points are certainly reasonable. But my problem is primarily in a rent controlled city.

Did you know that in a rent controlled city the LL must now pay for feeding the animal, walking the animal, pay for boarding the animal at a cost of 5 times the normal rate of actual owners.

So the new questions are
should a LL have to pay for feeding a tenants ESA animal?
should a LL have to pay for Boarding a tenants ESA animal?
should a LL have to pay for walking a tenants ESA animal?
should a LL have to pay for cleaning ( cat liter or other apparatus) of a tenants ESA animal?

There is a rule out here that a LL must take better care of their tenants than there own aging parents.

ie, a LL must house their tenants in $300/night hotel rooms while they can simply neglect their aging parents.
Re: ESA Emotional Support Animals by trissten on March 25, 2022 @00:47 [ Reply ]
Know About California’s New Emotional Support Animal Law in 2022
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