Can landlord evict prematurely because of pet?

deannagone

My ex had a rottweiller and a GSD so hardly small dogs.  Every agency he went to refused to deal with him.  He looked for places through OpenRent, dealt directly with LL's showed how well trained the dogs were (he's a dog handler) and was offered 2 out of 3 properties he applied for.  

Cakeguts

I just want to point out that we let to tenants with pets.  All I was trying to do was to point out that some landlords don't and they should be able to choose not to because after all it is their property that they are putting at risk.

Robbo66

Angela_D_3 said:

hang3r said:

Hmm. And if it does go to court, what options would I have? Would it cost me?

Yes you could have costs awarded against you,  but I believe there are now laws that mean landlords cannot reasonably refuse pets. I moved in without mentioning my cat and dog.  

Erm not so

https://www.landlordsguild.com/does-announcement-stop-landlords-banning-tenants-with-pets/

However devil is in the detail

Housing minister Christopher Pincher has only caused confusion by announcing a ban on landlords stopping tenants from keeping pets. It turns out the new rules only apply to the government’s Model Tenancy Agreement and are guidance not the law.

Cakeguts

It goes both ways this doesn't it. If a tenant can choose to own a pet in a rented property that is owned by a landlord then a landlord can choose not to have a tenant own a pet in their property.  I all comes down to the choices of each party.  

hang3r

Cakeguts said:

The allergy thing is nothing to do with sharing accommodation. If you have a house that has had a dog in it you don't know if the next person you let the house to will be allergic to any slight amount of dog hair left behind.  To guard against getting blamed for an allergic reaction suffered by a tenant landlord will refuse to let to people with pets.

You say that your dog has not done any damage to the current property?  Has it never had any form of little accident that you have had to clear up?  

That's a bit extreme. Obviously, we would do a deep clean of the whole place before we moved out. Plus we always rent unfurnished, so there wouldn't be a lot of places to hide for any dog hair.
We haven't had any major accidents with the dog, no. It peed a few times on the linoleum floor when it was still a pup, which we promptly cleaned up with no damage whatsoever. It also destroyed a couple of blankets that belonged to us not the landlord, until we trained it to behave.

Lover_of_Lycra said:

The landlord could issue a Section 8 notice using ground 12 (breach of tenancy agreement)...

Thank you for the informative post. We are trying to be upfront about the dog, and we have offered to provide our current landlord as a reference who is happy with our dog and the state of the current property, but when they say no, they're not willing to budge.

deannagone said:

My ex had a rottweiller and a GSD so hardly small dogs.  Every agency he went to refused to deal with him.  He looked for places through OpenRent, dealt directly with LL's showed how well trained the dogs were (he's a dog handler) and was offered 2 out of 3 properties he applied for.  

We are looking in many different areas with up to an hour of commuting, sadly the offerings on the OpenRent are a fraction of those on Zoopla and RightMove.