By admin on June 22, 2011
You’re still taking up the same amount of space if you have a pet.
I hear people say, “It’s because of the damage they cause to the apartment.”
Well isn’t that what the deposit is for?
I thought you pay a deposit as an insurance for any potential damage you cause, any wear-and-tear you cause on the apartment.
Why do you have to pay an additional monthly fee after you already paid the deposit?
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it’s a money thing..they can and do charge
Mabey its because the extra noise….Or they just want your money ^_^
Animals are notorious for making a mess and I understood the deposit to be a safeguard for ensuring payment of the rent not to cover damage!….
for how loud your dog is, to pick up your dog poop that you don’t pick up ,and to even be able to have it because so places don’t let you have animals.
My husband cleans carpets in apartment rentals and I can tell you that from his experience, renters with pets can cause major damage to carpets. The money it takes to remove pet stains and odors can be more expensive than the deposit you paid. A carpet that has been saturated with pet stains may require the carpet and padding to be pulled up so the floor can be treated in order to remove odors. This is why you have to pay extra for pets.
It’s to cover the damage that a pet can do, true, those costs are nothing compared to the destruction kids can do, but the law won’t allow you to charge a “kid” deposit.
Because most tenants end up welching on the deposit. The damages the average pet owner does are often in excess of a single month’s rent. That damage deposit won’t really cover removing all the carpet to get that cat urine smell out or replacing all the baseboards because the dog likes to chew. Every pet owner claims their pets aren’t this way. They’re usually lying, we all know the funk that their apartments have.
A second reason is that most landlords would rather not be put to all this trouble. So knowing that pet owners have fewer options, they raise the rents for these people.
What does your lease say?
The security deposit is for any additional damage you cause.
A non-refundable pet deposit is to offset the additional charges that will go into place when they clean the apartment over to be rented again.
For example: you have a cat. You live there and move out. The apartment will need additional cleaning for the cat. Other chemicals for odor etc. The land lord has to make sure the apartment is clean. If the next tenant has a severe allergy to cats just vacuuming the apartment may not make is safe for them to inhabit.
A pet deposit is just part of pet ownership.
Let’s not use euphemisms. The problem isn’t pet “stains”. It’s urine and feces soaked into practically every square inch of floor the animal had access to, and dander and parasites throughout all the air handling equipment and ducts. Pet owners essentially operate a kennel in a space normally occupied by humans. Most subsequent tenants don’t appreciate the filth and remediation costs money.
My experience both in New York and North Carolina is that people are not charged extra, however many landlords ban animals completely. That’s a shame because many people are attached to the animals and some really need them like children, the blind the deaf and the mentally ill, as well as people living in dangerous neighbourhoods.
As you said some landlords require a higher deposit if animals are present , any damage that occurrs is taken out of the deposit..
The landlords have two reasons for banning or charging extra for animals.
One is fear of damages , and the second is that most landlords want to squeeze as much money from their tenants that can.
Hope this helped