Got Pets? (Part 2)
In my previous post, I shared some things that you can do in order to help you find a new apartment and bring your pet (or pets, as the case may be) along with you. Here are more of those tips.
Offer to shell out extra in deposit.
Now there are two significant words in this sentence: offer and extra. Whether or not you have a pet, you will certainly have to give a deposit for the apartment. To give you extra leverage AND to show the landlord that you are quite confident that there won’t be any problems caused by your pet (or that if you do, you are willing to take responsibility for it), volunteer to add to the deposit. If you do not have that much money on hand, you can offer the landlord to pay the additional deposit in installments.
Buy renters insurance and let the landlord know you have it.
This is protection for yourself and the landlord, and is especially important in cases where the pet might cause some harm to others. It is quite important, for example, if you own a big dog. While you might be sure that your pet will not harm a fly (much less another tenant), you just never know when he might become a little too rough when being playful. The landlord will certainly appreciate the fact that you are covered by insurance if something averse happens involving your dog. More so, this really is good protection for you since the person who gets injured will probably go after you and not the landlord.
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