Pets tend to destroy a lot of stuff, intentionally or not. If you are renting out an apartment and would have to replace the sofa because a tennant’s cat doesn’t have a scratching post, versus renting out to someone who doesn’t have a cat and that problem vanishes. Pee on the floorboards can get into them and bloat (i.e. pet misses the litterbox, just wants attention or got sick). You can’t control these accidents, unless you put them in diapers, which nobody obviously does.
The deposit only covers so much; for example if the deposit is $1000 in damages, but what if the animals end up causing $2000? Then you only pay $1000 when the overall damage is assessed.
What the fuck kind of dystopic garbage is “pet rent”? Is this something I’m too actual tenant rights to understand?
This is unfortunately very common in the US, standard in fact almost
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Oh, is that abnormal? Sorry my country opposes freedom from the capital holding class
I get that pets can increase the amount of damage a property suffers.
I had to pay a cat deposit when I moved in and got it back when I proved I had properly cleaned the carpets.
but rent?
Oh no that’s crazy haha
You’re paying for the building. Doesn’t make any sense having a pet would increase that.
Pets tend to destroy a lot of stuff, intentionally or not. If you are renting out an apartment and would have to replace the sofa because a tennant’s cat doesn’t have a scratching post, versus renting out to someone who doesn’t have a cat and that problem vanishes. Pee on the floorboards can get into them and bloat (i.e. pet misses the litterbox, just wants attention or got sick). You can’t control these accidents, unless you put them in diapers, which nobody obviously does.
What is the deposit for then?
The deposit only covers so much; for example if the deposit is $1000 in damages, but what if the animals end up causing $2000? Then you only pay $1000 when the overall damage is assessed.
Literally no difference.
In my country and probably most of Europe this would be very illegal.
Animals can’t even be denied in a rental here, unless the place is too small for them to live comfortably.
And if the human tenant causes more than $1000 in damage?
In Sweden we have neither deposits or pet rent
Pet’s cause damage and smells. You post a few.