LOL, way to run off perfectly good tenants. My last land lord wanted to meet my dog, 90 lb rott. After meeting him, and us, he offered for us to have him with no deposit, but we would pay for any actual damages. Moved out a few months ago and got our full security deposit back. We gave him 2 years of easy on time rent and did updates to the yard and some appliances we left. We never would have considered him if he had a ridiculous pet deposit like that, and he'd have missed out on free upgrades and good tenants.

ETA: I wouldn't consider anywhere with a non refundable deposit for anything. Too many places without them for me to just piss that money away. You'll run off good people with big non refundable deposits.

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Posted by Oenophile Brah

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Posted on 8/5/13 at 3:14 pm to LNCHBOX

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My last land lord wanted to meet my dog, 90 lb rott. After meeting him, and us, he offered for us to have him with no deposit, but we would pay for any actual damages

You increased the owners liability. Just because nothing happened in those 2 years doesn't make it a good idea.

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Posted by eng08

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Posted on 8/5/13 at 3:18 pm to LNCHBOX

I prefer no pets. After dealing with all kinds of issues from pets I don't see that as outrageous.

I have to replace a back door on a place right now because a dog freaking ate it. I also have to contract a pest control company to spray for the flea infestation for the next several months. Throw in cleaning up the poop all over the patio, yeah $1k is a good number for me.

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