Pet Permission - Housing Assocation (Great Places)

PersianCatLady

It isn't strange at all, leaseholders have paid a lot of money to buy the ability to live in their flats for a number of years, HA tenants haven't.

Cakeguts

stclair wrote: »

No they have confirmed it’s possible for leaseholders just abit strange to me considering there only using the door and communal garden as the reason for refusal.

Probably due to the experience of the housing association and the number and type of pets they have had with past tenants. I can see that it would be easier just to make a rule of no pets unless you have an outside door to stop people just opening the flat door and letting the dog run round the building.

HA tenants have less invested in their homes than leaseholders. Who wants to pay a lot of money to live in a building which has dog poo in all the communal areas on a daily basis because of pet owners who don't care about the other residents?

Norman_Castle

stclair wrote: »

No they have confirmed it’s possible for leaseholders just abit strange to me considering there only using the door and communal garden as the reason for refusal.

HA's rarely allow pets to homes with shared spaces as other residents (regardless of ownership!) may not welcome them. Assuming the HA is the freeholder it is strange there are different rules. How common is it for privately owned flats to have leasehold restriction on pets?

Slithery

Norman_Castle wrote: »

How common is it for privately owned flats to have leasehold restriction on pets?

Very common.

PersianCatLady

Norman_Castle wrote: »

HA's rarely allow pets to homes with shared spaces as other residents (regardless of ownership!) may not welcome them. Assuming the HA is the freeholder it is strange there are different rules. How common is it for privately owned flats to have leasehold restriction on pets?

I don't think that it is strange that there are different rules for HA tenants and flat leaseholders.

People that purchase a lease that gives them the right to live in a flat (or whatever they choose to do) for a number of years for all intents and purposes OWN their flat whereas HA tenants don't.

If the HA has decided that their tenants can't have a pet and the OP wants a pet that badly then perhaps she should find a private landlord that will permit her to keep a pet. I would expect that a private LL would charge a lot more rent and a large deposit as well as a pet deposit.

What the OP should stop doing is expecting the tenants to have the same rights as people who have bought their flats (all be it leasehold).

Norman_Castle

PersianCatLady wrote: »

I don't think that it is strange that there are different rules for HA tenants and flat leaseholders.



What the OP should stop doing is expecting the tenants to have the same rights as people who have bought their flats (all be it leasehold).

There aren't really different rules for HA tenants, there are additional rules. The tenants of the HA properties and privately owned/rented flats will have to comply to the lease. The HA tenants will also have to comply with their tenancy agreement.

Both owner occupiers and the HA will have bought their properties.

PersianCatLady

Norman_Castle wrote: »

There aren't really different rules for HA tenants, there are additional rules. The tenants of the HA properties and privately owned/rented flats will have to comply to the lease. The HA tenants will also have to comply with their tenancy agreement.

Both owner occupiers and the HA will have bought their properties.

You are right, that is a better way of putting it Norman.

stclair

PersianCatLady wrote: »

I don't think that it is strange that there are different rules for HA tenants and flat leaseholders.

People that purchase a lease that gives them the right to live in a flat (or whatever they choose to do) for a number of years for all intents and purposes OWN their flat whereas HA tenants don't.

If the HA has decided that their tenants can't have a pet and the OP wants a pet that badly then perhaps she should find a private landlord that will permit her to keep a pet. I would expect that a private LL would charge a lot more rent and a large deposit as well as a pet deposit.

What the OP should stop doing is expecting the tenants to have the same rights as people who have bought their flats (all be it leasehold).

I’ve not asked for the same rights I’m just saying more about the reason they have given. Having said that they’ve agreed now without any problem. I’ll actually be buying the property anyway in mid 2018.