I am sick of looking at apartments in this city that are over priced for a closet sized space, and then to top it off: NO PETS! NO SMOKING!
Ya know people have lives, they wanna smoke and have dogs and who are you shitty landlords to judge?
If you are lucky to find a place that allows it all its outrageously priced. The reason for this is universities, all the universities should pick up and move to Dartmouth and all the bro’s should follow! —god
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2010.
I beg to differ. My former landlord once raped a swan but he blamed it on Hermit’s, not hubris.
Why don’t you get a place on your own and then decide which tenants you want to have in your place?
Their property, their rules.
It’s called being secretive and low-key. My landlord hasn’t found out my roomie has two cats and up until I quit smoking pot I smoked in the living room every night. Granted cig smoke sticks around for longer and my smoking roomie goes outside for that.
I agree with Bro Tim. If you don’t like the rules, don’t go look at it. Ask in advance if you can smoke there with your dog, cat, or beluga whale girlfriend. If the landlord says no, more on and keep looking.
Most dogs should never live in an apartment anyway, and people shouldn’t want to smoke either. If you want to kill yourself, why not just do it quick instead, that way the rest of us don’t have to pay for it.
I agree somewhat with citeme and sebastian…dogs and apartments should really never mix but if they must the dog had better be medium or preferably small, and/or you have a private entrance. My brother is stubborn and tried the dog duplex thing twice and had to give up the dog both times. My other brother adopted a dog from a couple in your situation. I had to give up my cats once. I have always had a cat or cats and have had the same difficulties finding apartments in the past. until i got a house. Many people dont take proper care of their cats and the smell of them can cling even after a cleaning between tenants. not to mention that some folks have outdoor cats, which i personally dont believe in. Fleas. Tics. Disposing of Litter is a huge nuisance in an apartment. Cats that spray when in heat when tenant “promised” cat was “fixed”. If i was a landlord I would simply rather not have to deal with all that shit. Unless i was hurtin for tenants. If you want to smoke and have pets then live in the slums. Thats the way things are going. Or buy a house. But if you have pets and especially if you smoke you life is only going to get more and more complicated. A wise Southpark character once said “poor people tend to live in clusters”…smokers will be next by the looks of things. And trying to rent an apartment thats been smoked in is almost as hard as trying to sell a vehicle that has been smoked in. It automatically lowers the value of the property severly and a fresh coat of paint often doesnt do the trick. A landlord doesnt want to devalue his investment simply because of your habit. To a landlord a smoker is the same as a person who likes to throw his own feces at the wall or grind it into the carpet, or having to disclaim that there was a mass murder at the residence.
Landlords have every right to judge, OP. It’s their property and it’s only reasonable that they’d want to keep it in decent shape.
Yeah yeah, I know YOUR dog isn’t like ALL those other dogs out there and doesn’t fuck shit up. I mean, it’s not like EVERY other dog owner who’s dog destroys the apartment says that.
And smoke will linger in the apartment — in the carpets and even the walls. It’s not easy to get rid of the stink when you move out. Plus, the smell usually goes into the hallway and bothers other tenants.
If you don’t like it, OP, either buy or go live in a cardboard box. You’re free to have Rufus and your 2 pack a day habit in both options. Rent does not equal OWN.
If you would quit smoking, you would save both your life, and frustration over finding an apartment.
just sayin.
Landlords may not be gods but OP isn’t either, so now, who gets to decide the rules? The ones with more money. Oh wait, that would be the landlords. *chuckle*
On a more serious note, I think that smoking and owning a dog shouldn’t be listed right after the phrase “people have lives”. Life, as I understand it, goes far beyond having an unhealthy habit and a pet.
supply and demand, numb nuts
Do intelligent people actually use “just sayin'”?
E=MC2 just say’n 🙂
Intelligent people do use slang, a pretentious ass wouldn’t.
A moron would say [Do intelligent people actually use “just sayin'”?].
I’m not sayin’ I’m just saying.
(I’m not saying NGF is a complete moron, I’m just saying he is showing signs of being one.)
My apartment allows smoking on one side of the building, and small pets but no dogs. I would love to have dogs, but I have to agree with my landlord that they don’t belong in our apartment. If you have a townhouse or something, that’s one thing, but dogs need space and a little balcony isn’t enough. If you want a place that allows dogs, I suggest trying to find a townhouse with friends to rent, or maybe someone who owns a house and wants to rent out a room. And geez, in this day and age is it really that tough to smoke outside? Most places are ok with you smoking on a balcony, just not inside where it’s tough to get smells and stains out of the carpet.
Jokes on you, moron, I didn’t use brackets. [Heh.]
Who are we (landlords) to judge???
We’re the ones who own the property. The ones who are hoping not to have to spend truckloads of money replacing the baseboards your dog chewed. The ones who really don’t want to have to replace the carpet because of cigarette burns. The ones who don’t want to deal with other tenants complaining about an animal yipping at 2:30 in the morning.
I happen to think I’m a pretty considerate landlord. I’m reasonable, and I want my tenant to be comfortable and happy. But as long as it’s my name on the deed – I’m making the rules.
is it?
A lot of landlords put in their leases/ads for apartments that no pets are allowed but will allow cats (some have a limit on how many cats, some don’t). The company that runs my building says “no pets,” but tells its tenants that if they don’t see the cat, and there’s no mess of litter in the garbage room it’s a-o-k. That and they require the tenant to pay for steam cleaning the carpets in the bedrooms (only rooms with carpet), which I think is more than fair. I have friends who have dogs, and while not all dog owners let their dogs to this, I’ve seen some nasty damage made by said dog. Meanwhile, as long as you scoop your litter every day and change it once a week and keep your cat’s claws neatly trimmed, you really wouldn’t have an issue with a cat. Cats simply aren’t as destructive as dogs can be. They don’t chew things, and they tend to not piss on the carpets unless they’re sick or unless you’re a lazy slob who hasn’t cleaned their litterbox in weeks.
One thing I must mention though: sometimes kids can do just as much damage to an apartment as a dog. The unit I moved into had to have doors, parts of the floors and casings replaced because the people who lived here had three kids who let them run wild. When we looked at the unit there was marker and crayon all over one of the bedroom walls and holes in the doors.
Who the FUCK lets their kids run amuck and destroy things like that? I got grounded for a week when i was little just for using finger paint between the studs in the basement while my parents were finishing it (the finger paint would’ve been covered up anyway. I also had to clean the paint off. My parents made me do this and grounded me (no outside time, and no tv for a week) to teach the lesson that it’s not ok to destroy the property of others (in this case, my parents’ wall). And I’ll bet you anything the kids who wrote on the walls in a RENTED apartment and who’s parents didn’t bother cleaning it up or obviously disciplining their kids given the severity of the wall “artwork” are going to be the ones destroying other people’s shit with spray paint in 10 years because they weren’t taught to respect other people’s property.
/rant.
I hear ya on this one, after months and months of kajiji hunting, classified searching, numurous house visits, we finally FINALLY found something that we like and took dogs.
Good luck, keep looking you will find something
Roof over your head & walls around you = right.
Smoking & pets = privilege.
And I’m a smoker with a cat.