Landlords, what's the price to charge for pets?
Landlords, what's the price to charge for pets?
Go4Rent Magazine: Property owners versus pet-owning tenants
Pets are a superb way to improve mental and physical health. However, they’re also expensive. Pet adoption ranges anywhere from $100 to $700 for dogs and $30 to $300 for cats, according to the Animal Humane Society. The first year of pet ownership can cost anywhere from $1,500 to $2,000.
And pet insurance, according to the North American Pet Health Insurance Association, costs anywhere from $28 to $594 annually. So when landlords attach an additional pet fee onto this already expensive four-legged friendship, some tenants may shy away altogether.
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However, pets are messy. They scratch walls and floors. They urinate and defecate in their preferred spots, leaving the pet owner to clean and spray on a continuous basis. Window screens get scratched. Noise complaints are reported.
And if the pet owner is not responsible, landlords are left footing the bill and juggling neighbors’ complaints for a pet that does not belong to them. So would charging pet fees and screening tenants resolve it all? Yes and no. Here’s why.
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Shamontiel is a dog lover to her core: 513 completed walks with 90 dogs, eight dog-house sittings and six dog boardings at the time of this publication.
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