• @ExcessivelyNoisy
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    9110 months ago

    What the fuck kind of dystopic garbage is “pet rent”? Is this something I’m too actual tenant rights to understand?

    • @JustUseMint
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      4810 months ago

      This is unfortunately very common in the US, standard in fact almost

    • @[email protected]
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      3610 months ago

      I get that pets can increase the amount of damage a property suffers.

      I had to pay a cat deposit when I moved in and got it back when I proved I had properly cleaned the carpets.

    • lad
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      1310 months ago

      My immediate thought was that you can rent a cat if you don’t own one.

      But yeah, it just looks like “there’s gonna be another tenant, pay for that” and the tenant is a cat

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        Which is stupid anyway, rent shouldn’t depend on the number of people in the unit, you are paying for the apartment/house/etc, not some goddam per person usage.

        • lad
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          110 months ago

          In fact, the wear and tear of the apartment is going to increase with the number of people, but usually it’s not taken into consideration

    • @captainlezbian
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      710 months ago

      Oh, is that abnormal? Sorry my country opposes freedom from the capital holding class

    • @Paddzr
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      210 months ago

      New shit UK is trying to push too.

    • @Maalus
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      Pets tend to destroy a lot of stuff, intentionally or not. If you are renting out an apartment and would have to replace the sofa because a tennant’s cat doesn’t have a scratching post, versus renting out to someone who doesn’t have a cat and that problem vanishes. Pee on the floorboards can get into them and bloat (i.e. pet misses the litterbox, just wants attention or got sick). You can’t control these accidents, unless you put them in diapers, which nobody obviously does.

        • @Crowfiend
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          The deposit only covers so much; for example if the deposit is $1000 in damages, but what if the animals end up causing $2000? Then you only pay $1000 when the overall damage is assessed.

          • @FMT99
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            1110 months ago

            And if the human tenant causes more than $1000 in damage?

          • @[email protected]
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            1010 months ago

            Literally no difference.

            In my country and probably most of Europe this would be very illegal.

            Animals can’t even be denied in a rental here, unless the place is too small for them to live comfortably.

            • @thedirtyknapkin
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              Oh man, it’s even more common for places just to not allow pets here. Having dogs as a renter can be very difficult.

      • @[email protected]
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        1810 months ago

        Can, but dont necessarily do. That’s what the pet deposit is supposed to cover.

        “Pet rent” is just a gouge.

        • @thedirtyknapkin
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          There’s almost no tenants rights laws in most of America. Gouging for every last little necessity is very standard. In fact, most places will try to charge you to apply to rent the place, and will try to refuse to show you the full lease terms until you pay for that. I’ve chosen not to rent many places just because they didn’t want to show me the full terms before I gave them $25 for an application fee.

          $25 may not be that much, as they always say, but usually I’m looking at 20+ apartments. That shit adds up fast.

  • pruwyben
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    7310 months ago

    Not sure why they needed to say “2 pet limit” at the bottom, they already clarified that with “Cat Cat”.

  • @NegativeLookBehind
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    5310 months ago

    Oh good, this place will be perfect for my jaguar. His name is Nibbles.

  • Annoyed_🦀
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    2110 months ago

    I guess they occasionally have someone bringing in a cougar or something

  • @workerONE
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    2110 months ago

    That’s fucked up to charge both a deposit and “monthly pet rent”

    • @instamat
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      310 months ago

      I’d like to see you not have problems fucking a tiger, buddy

  • teft
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    1810 months ago

    A mid sized mountain lion would satisfy those requirements. Just saying…

    • @taanegl
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      610 months ago

      Release it into the landlords room while they’re in bed sleeping, save at least a couple of months of rent.

      • @Xabis
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        410 months ago

        Plus the free room and board in the clink

        • @taanegl
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          410 months ago

          Well well well, folks. Looks like we have a landlord… release the mountain lion.

  • @ooterness
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    1710 months ago

    So is the 200 lb limit per cat? Or a total?