a big FUCK YOU to all the landlords who make a blanket statement of no dogs in their apartments. just like tenants often need references, a pet can have references to support my assertion that my dog is clean, quiet, and well-behaved. (some) students and lots of other asshole tenants will damage your place, party and otherwise cause trouble, but it`s my 100% damage-free dog (and my super-responsible self) that you are so fucking scared of. unenlightened, lazy fucks… check my dog`s references and give me a place to live!!
This article appears in Sep 18-24, 2008.
Ohhhh I feel your pain. Here’s a link that may be helpful. http://www.maritimedogs.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2It's to Maritime Dogs and they have a pet friendly rentals section. I also had a terrible time finding a place for myself and my little dog. It’s insane!I hope this helps!
I wasn’t going to post on this, but there’s just something in the OP’s (albeit online and a bitch) demeanor that gets to me. You choose to have an animal. You choose to have a dog, and it’s a well known fact that it’s harder to find a place to rent if you have a dog. You simply have to accept that little fact.I have a 70lb mutt that looks like a Rotti. So far we’ve lived in two apartments in HRM. While searching for the most recent apartment I had six or seven nice places to choose from. I have had landlords hang up on me upon hearing what mix my dog is, but those are generally the ignorant type of person who assumes that because he’s part Rotti, he’s all mean. We don’t want to rent from people like that anyway, so it’s cool.In my initial contact with potential landlords I offer references, a doggie deposit and doggie interview, and have had much success with this method. And while I do have empathy for the OP, I can only hope that they don’t go into situations as pissed off and defensive as in this post, that’ll just give understandable, reasonable dog owners a harder time getting in somewhere…I do applaud the OP for not just giving the animal up though. I could write a three page bitch on the number of people who give their pets up for adoption because their new place does not allow pets…*That* annoys me even more than people who get pissy because their choice in pets impacts their rental situation.
people are forgetting it’s not just the damage the dog could potentially do (and I’m not saying yours could, it could be totally well behaved and never have an accident or get annoyed with you and do something naughty, or scratch the door when it wanted to go in or out or any of the other totally normal things dogs do). It’s also about the noise and disruption to other tenants.fact is, cats and goldfish are quiet.my downstairs neighbor has a dog. they’re not allowed in our building, but she somehow thinks she can get away with it. our building allows cats and other small pets, and several people have cats. I never hear or smell them, and it’s never a problem- I think once I saw a cat who had gotten out wandering the halls, she stopped for a pet and continued on her kitty way. very gentile.the dog on the other hand barks every time someone comes up the stairwell- it can’t help it, it’s a dog. it’s what they do. furthermore, it’s owner isn’t around enough to walk it properly, so it cries and is lonely a lot- heartbreaking to hear. and because she’s an idiot, she lets it out off leash outside the apartment building, then GOES AWAY- the poor thing just wanders around until she comes back to get it. it drives me nuts.but the point is, even is she was a perfect dog owner, it’d still be a dog, who are very territorial and vocal about it. it’d still bark at all hours of the day when it hears a noise, either through the floor, ceiling or wall or from the hall way (thin walls in old aparmtnet buildings must drive dogs batty!). It will still whine and claw at the door when it smells someone else’s delicious dinner, it will still cry when it’s lonely,a nd it still has to come in and out of the building tracking muddy paws and shedding hair to go outside to do it’s business. a cat doesn’t do that.so I can totally understand a landlords position- no matter how good the owner, a dog is still going to be a dog, and therefore is more disruptive by it’s very being than a cat. for clarity, I am a dog person.oh and I think Lori could totally take Frannie 🙂
So then Lori, are you a black or Asian woman who owns her own home and shops at Foreign Affair?
oh GIVE IT UP franfran! SERIOUSLY.oh and one thing I keep hearing you say that makes me want to hit you with my shoe- apparently living pay cheque to pay cheque is somehow indicative of poverty or otherwise being a horrible person, right?wellllll how many people live pay cheque to pay cheque these days? hate to break it to you, but the bigger the cheque, generally the bigger the expenses to keep up that lifestyle- cars are a big drain. Meaning LOTS of people, responsible, good people, live pay cheque to pay cheque. Or maybe they have a fullfilling career but don’t make enough (jumps up and down). Whatever it is, if your paycheque covers your expenses, what is the problem here? saving a bit is nice but the fact is if everyone waited until they had a nice little nest egg well….they’d miss out. either on having children entirely because, in this economy, that’s never going to happen before your eggs are withered and dry producing weirdo old-egg babies, OR on experiences, which you hold so dear, because they’ve spent their whole lives saving for something and not living.there. said my piece. how’s my spacing miles?
You know what I do when my child keeps doing something because she wants attention? I ignore her.
thanks badguy. damn this troll addiction! I need some sort of 12 step, no more baiting trolls program….
Have you ever tried sitting your troll down, and hitting them?
ummm it isnt about the pet that the rules like that exist…its the fact that even after you clean when you leave, that dog could trigger some huge allergy attack. Then the lawsuits would be wild….not saying that very many people are that allergic to pets, but that is something that no rental agent wants to deal with. Hence that rule.
If you have 1600 there’s a furnished house close to me that’s super dog friendly and the old tenants just left.
Buy your own apartment building, then you can have a dog. Again, sort of like the chip commercial. If I give one to you then I will have to give one to everyone else. Except in this case if I give in to you and your dog, then I have to give in to everyone else. Because you know well that another tenant will say so and so in apt# has a dog, why can’t I?Again, buy your own apartment building or house, then you can have a dog. Or just select a rental that allows dogs. Why the fuck does everyone think they can be the exception to the rules. Drives me batty.
Many landlords won’t rent to students either, and that’s the thing – they don’t have to rent to anyone they don’t want to. How do they know your dog isn’t going to pee on the carpet or scratch the doors, or chew baseboards? If I was a landlord I probably wouldn’t allow dogs either.
Yes but Frannie, if you were a landlord you probably wouldn’t rent to people with kids either, because, you know, they must be irresponsible because they didn’t buy a house before they decided to stop using their birth control. If you were a landlord you could have a whole building full of people just like you….pfffff.
If I was a landlord I wouldn’t rent to white-trash like you Lori. All I can picture is some scraggly-haired, chain smoking hag with Wal-Mart Velcro sneakers. No, I wouldn’t rent to you. Who knows when I’d ever see the rent.
I remember another group of people who wanted everyone to be the same and perfect. *hears goose-stepping in the distance*
If they allow your dog, they will have to allow all dogs. When my mother had an apartment to rent years ago, I made the mistake of renting it to a dog owner. The dog chewed off the bottom half of the bathroom door and the smell of shit and piss lingered for months after the tenant left. While your dog may be well-behaved, I certainly wouldn’t take that chance again. Bad owners are the problem not the dogs themselves.
Well well, so you assume I’m white and I shop at Walmart and rent.You just keep proving how out of touch with reality you are. Don’t look left or right….just keep walking straight ahead…..
No matter how much you think otherwise. Dogs stink and potentially could bring in fleas or ticks to the apartment. They are also a severe allergin and to top it off could ruin property and could cause a noise issue. Those are too many strikes to put on for someone who could skip out and not pay rent or repairs. Landlords weigh the potential damage over the potential upkeep and find that animals skew it to a loss. People don’t work to LOSE money so they don’t want them in. It’s the way it is. The fact is that you are renting meaning that you have to conform to their rules. If it is unsuitable then you have to find someone with rules that conform to how you want to live. That or give the pet away/eat it… Either way, something has to give.
no…I often want to beat them with shoes, but I’ve never actually done it…perhaps that’s my problem. As it is, I cope fairly well, take it one day at a time, resist temptation….until that one delectable wack-job of a troll appears and bang,….it’s right back on the badly spelt-and-spaced bandwagon.
Here Hedgy:http://www.miniclip.com/games/whack-a-ground-hog/en/It's a bit like proving Frannie wrong. She pops up, makes another dumb noise, you whack her. Then she pops up again, says something else abominably stpud, and you whack her.But no matter how many times she is proven wrong, wrong, wrong, she keeps popping back up YOU JUST CAN’T FUCKING GET RID OF HER.This game may help.
Also Superstore and Sobeys are the big competitors for each other around here. Saveeasy on Wyse road’s competitor would be the IGA, so there is not as great a need to keep the prices down.
Sorry wrong thread…Boy is my face red…
im the op. thanks to the people who understand my issue.to address some of the other issues here: first, it’s not true that if you allow one dog, you have to let everyone have one. tenancy laws state that only ‘reasonable rules’ are allowed, so for example, if you can provide references to support that your (my!) dog is quiet, non-destructive, etc, it is unreasonable and illegal not to allow that particular animal (don’t believe, call the tenancy rights hotline).and to others who talk about dogs around them who are noisy… as i said in the OP, check references. landlords check references to find out if PEOPLE are noisy or likely damage the apartment. so why do the same for dogs? i live in the same very small building as my landlord and she can attest to the perfect behaviour of my dog here for the last 2 years.allergies, whatever!! you clean the place and vacuum the floors. cats cause just as many allergic reactions as dogs. what if i was a perfume addict? that’s in way a valid arguement for disallowing dogs.
and furthermore….OF COURSE i don’t into talk with landlors defensively. i am the sweetest person you could hope to. bitches are for BLOWING UP which is the point i’m at. privately. not in the presence of potential landlords.and for those who say i shouldn’t have a dog… i’m in my early 20s. it is the family dog from my childhood. no one else in my family, now that kids have moved out etc, is willing to take the responsibility for dog. besides, i love her more than anyone else. that’s why i have the dog. and i rent for the same reasons a gazillion other young people rent. it’s all i can afford for now!!
sorry for a million typos, i’m all jazzed up i guess
You know the wonderful thing about owning an Apartment building, you get to make the rules and choose who you want as tenants. Get off the dope, it is not unreasonable or illegal to not allow certain animals. Again, whent you OWN the building you get to choose who and what lives there. You can produce all the documents you want backing the behavior of your animal. You can even have the ‘dog whisperer’ certify that your dog is very well behaved. In theend if the OWNER decides no dogs, that is it…No Dogs and there is really not a damn thing you can do about it. Well I guess you could do something about, look for some wheres else to live.
You know the wonderful thing about owning an Apartment building, you get to make the rules and choose who you want as tenants. Get off the dope, it is not unreasonable or illegal to not allow certain animals. Again, whent you OWN the building you get to choose who and what lives there. You can produce all the documents you want backing the behavior of your animal. You can even have the ‘dog whisperer’ certify that your dog is very well behaved. In the end if the OWNER decides no dogs, that is it…No Dogs and there is really not a damn thing you can do about it. Well I guess you could do something about, look for some wheres else to live.