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What the fuck kind of dystopic garbage is "pet rent"? Is this something I'm too actual tenant rights to understand?
I get that pets can increase the amount of damage a property suffers.
I had to pay a cat deposit when I moved in and got it back when I proved I had properly cleaned the carpets.
but rent?
Oh no that's crazy haha
You're paying for the building. Doesn't make any sense having a pet would increase that.
My immediate thought was that you can rent a cat if you don't own one.
But yeah, it just looks like "there's gonna be another tenant, pay for that" and the tenant is a cat
Which is stupid anyway, rent shouldn't depend on the number of people in the unit, you are paying for the apartment/house/etc, not some goddam per person usage.
In fact, the wear and tear of the apartment is going to increase with the number of people, but usually it's not taken into consideration
Pets tend to destroy a lot of stuff, intentionally or not. If you are renting out an apartment and would have to replace the sofa because a tennant's cat doesn't have a scratching post, versus renting out to someone who doesn't have a cat and that problem vanishes. Pee on the floorboards can get into them and bloat (i.e. pet misses the litterbox, just wants attention or got sick). You can't control these accidents, unless you put them in diapers, which nobody obviously does.
What is the deposit for then?
Oh, is that abnormal? Sorry my country opposes freedom from the capital holding class
New shit UK is trying to push too.