What is the worst thing that can happen to my house if I rent it out to someone with a couple of cats or dogs?
2006-06-29 10:46:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Are the prospective tenants responsible?
Worst case, a trashed house with a pet damaged interior, urine stained/damaged rugs and floors. Dug up/destroyed yard.
Best Case, you wouldn't know they were there.
Years ago I rented an apartment (upstairs) to a tenant. Tenant had an aquarium, long story short $22,000 in damage. 180 gallons of water destroys carpets, chairs, causes the sheet rock to come off the ceiling, wrecks hardwood floors etc. etc. But then again, I required him to have insurance. Covered all the damage and the expense of relocating the downstairs tenant for 3 months to allow renovation of the apartment and replacement of the downstairs tenants personal property.
My tenants all carry insurance. I help them get a policy, and subsidize about half of it (rental rebate). Once they see what else it covers, and that I am subsidizing part of the cost they jump at it. Also, this keeps my insurance down, the tenants carry damage riders. My insurance company loves it, and actually passes on the tenants before they move in - protecting me.
PS,
I ask for the previous TWO landlords as references. I call both. A glowing report by their current landlord may simply be to get them gone.
2006-06-29 11:26:02 · answer #1 · answered by Jimmy J 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-07-18 17:17:46 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes, I rented my investment property to a tenant with one cat. So she said, one cat. Little did I know she had half a dozen cats.
I only visited my property once in 6 months (tenants rights, built into lease). So, I did not know about the cats.
When they are in heat, they put out a bad odor. Urine, defecation adds to the problem.
It costs me a lot of money to bring it back to normal after the tenants were gone.
So, moral I learned: NEVER rent the place to a pet owner. Sorry cat lovers, that's just the way it is.
2006-06-29 13:38:40 · answer #3 · answered by Nightrider 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
depends on the tenents and pets, i have fishs,a turtle, cat and a dog plus 6 kids i think the kids have done the most damage next to the dog they don't like to take out. if you have pryer addresses of the tenents your concerting to rent to call them up talk with the tenents about the care of their animals maybe you can get a better feel for if the people takes good care of their pets i have a small lap dog and if she got outside more she'd be perfect in a house otherwise they won't rent to me
2006-06-29 11:37:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In calculating how much rent you must receive to defray your costs you must include the cost of completely re carpeting. I charged double the security deposit for tenants with pets and limited the size/type of pet.
2006-06-29 11:05:58 · answer #5 · answered by kayak 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is the house furnished? They can tear the furniture apart. They can have 'accidents' on the carpet and shed hair everywhere (the person who used to live in my apartment had a cat and there were a bunch of hairs on the carpet, despite a professional carpet cleaning). The animals might also disturb the neighbors.
2006-06-29 10:56:40 · answer #6 · answered by lilkracker78 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Replace CARPETS, average cost is $1000.00. We Charge a $300.00 pet fee. Barely covers the cost of repairs or replacements. Dogs, chew and scratch and claw the doors...
2006-06-29 11:12:23 · answer #7 · answered by educated guess 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-07-12 00:27:53 · answer #8 · answered by Jeniffer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋