As a want to be tennant, I no more want to live in a dirty smelly pet house. Why would any landlord assume I do because I have pets.
My animals are well looked after, mature and respectful. I am a responsible owner and have bought them up to behave. I want a home that I can be proud of so why is it assumed, as a pet owner, that I would let the animals run riot and defecate where they want. I have standards too. What will it take for a landlord to at least consider a person with pets.
I would prefer a home as rural as possible, in the countryside there are all kinds of smells from nature. The animals would enjoy more outside time, and be clean and fresh before they came back in.
Children and disrespectful adults can be a liability.
I am looking for as forever a home as a rental can be. To love and care for as our home even though it belongs to someone else.
How can I prove to you as landlords that, as a family, we are and will be good tenants with pets and your property will benefit from our occupation.
Its soul destroying being turned away without even a consideration.
Oh dear! Here we go again!.
no one reply. She should have checked all the 100 s of replies under the subject of pets
I’m sorry but its never really been answered in anything but curve balls and generalities.
I’m really fed up of never being given a chance to give voice to why we are NOT irresponsible or likely to wreck the place. . Its like being passed over because we have blonde hair or drive a ford transit or come from outer Mongolia just because a few blondes or ford owners or Mongolians have caused trouble before.
Being able to put your case and then being turned down is one thing but its never the case.
Thats the " oh here we go again" from the other side.
Appologies for being brassed off enough to ask the question…again.
Well thank you for your fair comment.
“She” is an individual and as fed up with bad attitudes as landlords no doubt are of bad tennants.
I’m not an uppity kind so I’m not going to broker argument nor look for one. But one point might be valid, maybe the fault is with the law makers. If landlords were able to ask for extra deposit for pets or a stand alone insurance against possibility of damage, I know many pets owners would gladly accept those terms.
You don’t need to reply, the other person has told you not to. I was being sincere in my post but I seem to maybe have proved something about people. Sad, but as I say, please don’t tar us all with the same brush. Some of us are genuine and frustrated to the wall and back that there is no room to at least put our case before being turned down.
“She” will now leave you in peace. There is no point when some walls don’t have a fair ear.
Thank you.
I’ve moved the topic to tenant discussions.
Thank you. I had no intention of causing angst and I chose landlord as my question was directed more to them, or trying to find one who didn’t object to pets and had methods in place to counteract problems.
So apologies for the incorrect placing and please no argumentative talk, I really would like to try to find a solution.
Many thanks
You asked what it would take for a landlord to consider pets.
It would take a big change in the law basically and is simply an extra risk.
If you are able to search previous posts, many people have gone into more detail. People probably feel there’s nothing more to add, it’s not personal. All the best. Ms.T
Thank you for your reply.
I had said in a further post that the laws need changing becauce many owners would accept extra payments for example, if it meant their animals didn’t cause an issue.
Who would one lobby for help in changing the laws and would people be interested in supporting a lobby.
I thank you also for the nice person you come across as. I do dislike terse sarcastic and ill-mannered people when its not called for. I can be as ill mannered as the rest but why can’t people be nice like you were, the world would be a much nicer place.
Thank you and sorry for your situation. Just keep trying. There are landlords out there, it’s just finding them.
It’s a very difficult and emotive subject.
Personally, I think the tightening of the criteria on accepting animals, children and benefits, are the symptoms of the bigger picture of landlords being shafted by the Government every which way, so they are having to protect themselves and minimise risks wherever they can.
Until it’s a more equal system on the whole, not sure any one aspect will change.
I’ve said before, I think it’s a shame it’s come to this.
Do you have to leave your current home?
Bless you.
No dont have to leave as such but its a long story. Security in a forever home to look after and care for like our own now we are getting older, and we would like to be a lot more rural if choice would allow and be self sufficient to a large degree. We are lucky compared to some poor souls.
I would like to not only make it more accessible for us but also for others, many of whom ARE in a desperate situation.
I feel for property owners on one hand and on the other think they own at least 2 homes when many who can’t afford to buy one are desperate. Sorry I dont mean to offend with that remark, but when tenants have no respect for something that belongs to someone else or do a moonlight flit or stay put and pay nothing until they are legally prized out, it paints decent respectable people with the same brush of mistrust. I dont blame landlords one bit for being cautious I understand totally. I just wish there was some way of sorting out the wheat from the chaff and particularly where pets are concerned who are as much family members as children, so that you’re not precluded before you even apply.
Sorry I’ve gone on a bit lol but I think it makes sense.
If heads could come together on both tenant and landlord sides to come up with solutions it would be great, no idea how !! But it would be great haha.
A caravan in the middle of a field would suit us a treat, someones big back garden on a farm, whatever, but the laws still cause problems!!!