When I post a rental house, I put I will accept one medium size dog and I like to meet the dog beforehand. The last set of tenants, three friends that moved in together had a dog and two "comfort" animals.
In Tulsa, a landlord is not allowed to collect a deposit for a "comfort animal" and is not allowed to refuse one, or two in this case..... It states, however, that the tenant is still responsible to make sure the dog doesn't damage the house.
When I did the final walkthrough two days ago, the tenants said that the carpet had been shampooed but the house had a strong animal odor and there were several visible pet stains near the front door.
When I tried to show the house a couple of weeks ago, it smelled and was very messy. The tenants were busy with finals or work or something and the house was not show ready even though I gave them notice that I would be showing it. After that, I waited until they were completely moved out.
My question is, if there are three people in the same house, can't they have the same comfort animal, do they need three dogs? They clearly left the dogs all day and didn't take them out to relieve themselves and/or the dogs are just not trained. I feel like the tenants had no business keeping dogs that they let run around the house neglected all day.
I'm just beginning to think this comfort animal thing is just a complete racket and I would like the rules to change back to something more reasonable for the landlords.
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