Re: ESA Emotional Support Animals - Landlord Forum thread 359024

Re: ESA Emotional Support Animals by Garry on February 7, 2019 @14:57

Something else I just thought about. We LLs do credit, criminal, and employment checks before a person rents from us. Once they move in, how many of us check out those things at the 1,2,3,4,or 5 year points, if a T is with us that long? How about physical inspections of the rentals. Many LLs do 6 month or yearly. But many don't get into their units for several years. If LLs don't worry about these things on a regular basis, why should a LL worry whether a T qualifies yearly as a disabled person to keep their ESA?

And here's another thing-----what does a LL do if the T CAN'T produce an ESA letter a year later? Is the LL now going to request a deposit for the "pet" ? If the T refuses, is the LL going to kick out what is possibly a good-paying T that keeps up the place? As I said in my 1st post, I have a lot more problems with people than animals.

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Re: ESA Emotional Support Animals by AnonymousFL on February 9, 2019 @12:25	[ Reply ]

If a tenant needs an ESA, there should be no problem getting a letter. IF they cannot, it really be the same as if a tenant who had no pet brought a pet home without prior approval. Every landlord that allows pets most likely has dealt with that situation at one time or another.