Petition about landlords not allowing pets in rented accommodation.

gettingready

Well generally speaking.
Kids will have a bedroom.
So if a LL wants to rent their home,they need to rent it to applicable tenants.
How many people pay for an extra bedroom for a pet?

Are you assuming everyone with a pet is in receipt of HB?

catkins

custardy wrote: »

Well generally speaking.
Kids will have a bedroom.
So if a LL wants to rent their home,they need to rent it to applicable tenants.
How many people pay for an extra bedroom for a pet?

The smell problem is the one that comes from dogs

There is only me and OH and we rent a 3 bed house.


Not all dogs smell but the anti dog brigade choose not to believe that

Person_one

gettingready wrote: »

Good read, kind of on topic

http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2006/10/the_ant_and_the.html

What a load of self-satisfied right-wing tosh!

gettingready

As opposed to a load of forced PC correctness at every angle tosh - it is just right

custardy

gettingready wrote: »

Are you assuming everyone with a pet is in receipt of HB?

how exactly do you get that from the post?
people who rent with kids would generally be needing a bedroom, for the kids.
Where did say who was paying?

SeduLOUs

I currently rent and had to pay double the deposit to have a dog in the house. This was fine by me, as it's a deposit and as long as I leave the house in the state I found it I'll get it all back.

In the first week my dog did scratch at the wall by the front door. This was just initial nervousness of being left alone in a new place, but I immediately polyfilla'd the damage and painted over it so you wouldn't be able to tell it happened.

He has had the occasional 'accident' aswell. Not through lack of training, but like us, sometimes they get a poorly tummy and simply cannot wait for usual toilet time. We have a decent carpet cleaner at the ready for any such incidents and clean thoroughly.

OK, there's dog hair everywhere, all the time. This is probably the biggest downside to allowing an animal in the property. But again, with a decent hoover (we have one of those Henry ones) it is certainly manageable, and I will probably rent something more industrial or pay someone to do a deep clean when we leave, unless the landlord would prefer to arrange this himself and deduct from the deposit.

I understand why some landlords would rather not have the hassle of animals. By the same token, I understand why they wouldn't want the hassle of children or people on benefits either. It is entirely up to the person who owns the property who they want to allow to live in it.

A blanket law to allow pets is a step too far, and is unfair on the landlords. If you are going to get a dog, you need to consider all of the possibilities that you may not be able to rent a house of your choosing if times get tough, and you may have to pay a substantially higher deposit. If you think you are unlikely to be able to cope with not having as much 'choice' at any point within the next 20 years, you shouldn't really get a dog.

Dollardog

SeduLOUs wrote: »

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A blanket law to allow pets is a step too far, and is unfair on the landlords. If you are going to get a dog, you need to consider all of the possibilities that you may not be able to rent a house of your choosing if times get tough, and you may have to pay a substantially higher deposit. If you think you are unlikely to be able to cope with not having as much 'choice' at any point within the next 20 years, you shouldn't really get a dog.

So someone who is married, has their own house - be it mortgaged - can predict that in a few years time, their husband will leave with another woman, they will end up off work for months through illness and have to sell the house through not being able to pay the mortgage on their own?
I think they would need a very reliable crystal ball to be able to predict what might happen in the next 20 years!!
I doubt if any of us, given that criteria of having to guess what might happen to our circumstances within the next 20 years, would ever be able to have a dog!!


Landlords will always have the final say as to who can rent their houses, but it should not be a blanket ban on pets either, they should at least take in the circumstances of the people trying to rent, and if necessary, put an appropriate deposit in place, not have agents just saying - No pets.
They could even visit the homes of people that are trying to rent to be assured that the said pets do not do any damage and to assess the sort of people they are.
If I chose to rent my property out, I would want references and if there was something I was unsure about, I would take steps to 'interview' the person wanting to rent to assure myself it was not going to be a problem.

SeduLOUs

I know you can't predict the future. But what I meant was that when I decided to have a dog, I realised that should the worst happen and I end up single and looking for a new home, I am AWARE now that this may mean having to move into a grotty house that accepts dogs and it might not be in an area I like or that is convenient for work. But that's a risk I'm willing to take and would never consider giving up my dog, no matter how nasty or inconvenient my living conditions might end up in the future because of him.

All I'm saying is that if the idea of not having much choice of rental properties is unacceptable to you, or you'd rather rehome a dog than put up with whatever you might be able to get, then perhaps a dog is not a wise idea.