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Cats in rented property
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The point about the flats rules is a good one, the flat I own does not allow animals apart from a caged bird, also no signs to be put in the windows, grassed areas not to be used for recreational use, no rubbish to be put outside doors or on communal areas - the lease is about 17 pages long with do's and don'ts!!
If you don't want to come straight out and ask about your cats I would ask the agent or LL if you can cat-sit for a friend/relative odd week-ends and holidays. If they say no because of the lease than thats a no, but if they say yes to that then it leaves room for negotiation.0 -
Some of them will probably fall foul of the Unfair Contract Terms guidance, eg notices in windows must not contain business adverts or be anything of an offensive nature would be considered reasonable but a "blanket" ban probably would not.The point about the flats rules is a good one, the flat I own does not allow animals apart from a caged bird, also no signs to be put in the windows, grassed areas not to be used for recreational use, no rubbish to be put outside doors or on communal areas - the lease is about 17 pages long with do's and don'ts!!
???? ridiculous & unnecessary subterfuge IMO. So many problems are caused because LLs and Ts don't communicate properly with one another.If you don't want to come straight out and ask about your cats I would ask the agent or LL if you can cat-sit for a friend/relative odd week-ends and holidays. If they say no because of the lease than thats a no, but if they say yes to that then it leaves room for negotiation.
If the LL said yes to the first question, its not a case of "leaving room for negotiation", it's leaving room for the LL to view you as a duplicitous tenant from the very start, ie, she asks about 8-10 moggy visits but what she actually meant was one or more living here permanently.
The time spent planning how to approach it would be better spent just asking outright and then both parties are clear.0 -
TBS I agree that honesty is the best policy but hellokitty says in her post that she has become too scared to ask outright.
re the unfair terms, I hope no-one who lives in the block tries to overturn the rules as the block is lovely, clean, well cared for and quiet which is what I like about it!0
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