Heavy-handedly dealt with for having someone visit with a pet (tenancy)

Cyclamen

My parents have a contract that states no pets.

Before moving in they asked about my dog visiting and got approval, as long as she didn't live there she could stay overnight occasionally. It's too late now but maybe in future rentals it is worth asking first if the landlord would accept visiting pets.

jayss

I've lived in a (supposedly) pet free building and people would periodically get stroppy when the management company sent out letters to pet owners telling them to get rid or move out.

People kept filling the bins on the roof terrace with dog poo that the cleaners would (rightly) complain about having to empty.
So people without pets would routinely shop those that did, whether they were badly behaved or not.

There was also an element of jealousy from those that wanted pets but didn't want to break the rules and didn't see why others shod be able to get away with it.

If you don't see your neighbours often and most times you do, you have a dog with you they are probably thinking you have a dog.

You agreed to not have pets, why not visit your girlfriends place on the weekends? Or look for a pet friendly place together?

pimento

If you know that other occupiers are keeping pets then write and complain.

nobblyned

Who was the letter from? Your landlord, the letting agent, the managing agent of the freeholder, a neighbour...?

DRP

sniffles wrote: »

Can I ask why?

Because imo I would not be breaking the terms of the tenancy. I am not 'keeping' a dog, just like if i regularly have friends to stay, they are not actually living there.

As princeofpounds sets out in his sensible post above, there is a risk inherent in doing this so I would be doing it in the knowledge that I *may* be evicted if the landlord/freehold manager pushed the situation...

nobblyned wrote: »

Who was the letter from? Your landlord, the letting agent, the managing agent of the freeholder, a neighbour...?

^ that's exactly what i was thinking.

OP has stated other residents clearly own animals, so for all we know this standard letter gets sent to every resident who is suspected of owning a pet and that is as far as it ever goes - as princeofpounds stated it is difficult to blanket ban this kind of thing.

moneyistooshorttomention

If the dog is staying for more than a couple of hours at a time and, particularly if it is staying overnight, then it is "living there" and you are breaching that tenancy agreement.

Even visiting dogs (as in genuine "visits" of literally an hour or two hours or so a time) can cause problems. I'm still remembering a former friends' dog coming visiting and then weeing on the floor!!:eek:

MamaMoo_2

Where do you keep it at the weekends? In the house? Then a dog is being kept on the premises. Whether temporarily or permanently.

If you were a single parent that had your children at weekends, would you move into a property where children were not allowed to live?

I also think that the regular, routine nature of the dog's visits suggest that you're keeping a dog there, albeit part time. There's a huge difference between one day a month, or two hours every so often, and it spending full weekends with you.