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Oh no im in trouble.Pet related
elliott316s
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Im renting a property that stated no pets,however when my gran was taken ill I started looking after her pet yorkie a few days a week.She is now in a home and I have the dog virtually all the time.Recieved a letter from the letting agents giving me 2 weeks to lose the dog.That is not going to happen.Where will this all lead.
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I'm not certain (and I'm sure someone will come along soon who is) but I'm pretty sure they can't enforce a no pets clause in your contract.
Why not try having a word with them regarding the situation. Perhaps you can offer to put down some more of a deposit to cover any damage the dog might cause while you are in the house?
If you can't agree with them, and don't lose the dog, they will probably serve you notice and ask you to leave but you will have a couple of months to find somewhere new (with nicer agents!)
Good luck
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Jeez. You want to have your cake and eat it too. You signed an agreement that stated no pets. You now have a dog in someone elses property when you agreed to have no pets.
This is what'll happen: you are going to be kicked out. Rightly so.
Start packing.Everyone is entitled to my opinion!0 -
TBH you can't blame the agents. You agreed to no pets and now you have a dog. The sensible thing wold have been to discuss this with them rather than them finding out. Makes them believe you are untrustworthy (rightly or wrongly)!0
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TBF the agents are cool with it but are getting pressure from the residents association0
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So you're breaking a covenant of the lease too? You couldn't make it up.Everyone is entitled to my opinion!0
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Apologise profusely to the agents, and then explain the tragic and unforeseen situation with your Gran. Offer to have the house professionally cleaned at your expense when you leave.
Give them the opportunity to discuss it with the property owner. If I were a landlord, I'd be inclined to make an exception for a genuine case like this so long as the tenant were to do the right thing and remove any dog smell or hair from the house before leaving.
But I'd start looking for another place that accepts pets if I were you....“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
elliott316s wrote: »TBF the agents are cool with it but are getting pressure from the residents association
Ah, that's different.
Start looking for a new place to live.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Jeez. You want to have your cake and eat it too. You signed an agreement that stated no pets. You now have a dog in someone elses property when you agreed to have no pets.
This is what'll happen: you are going to be kicked out. Rightly so.
Start packing.
was actually looking for advise not a lecture mum0 -
elliott316s wrote: »TBF the agents are cool with it but are getting pressure from the residents association
As you're looking for advice that piece of info would have been useful 0 -
I've reported your last post, evoke. There is no need. Sun's shining, do you need some air perhaps?
OP, they will have to follow formal process and serve you with a Section 21 which gives you at least 2 months notice. If the terms of the lease between your landlord and the freeholder state that there are no pets then it simply isn't worth them keeping you there for the hassle they are going to get. It's pretty unlikely it'll ever happen but they could end up forfeiting their own lease and they simply won't be interested in the legal fees to fight the clause.
You'll either have to consider re-homing the poor dog
or the two of you together 
Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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