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Landlord can charge deposit for tenant’s cat


Q: When I walked into my apartment in the building, a few years ago, renting me a pet deposit on a cat. Recently, I learned that other tenants with pets were not calculated a pet deposit. Is it legal in California? Do I have reason for requiring a deposit return of the five?

Tenant lawyer Steven R. Kellman replies: lessor may be a deposit of two months’ rent in an unfurnished residential housing. For example, if the lease was $ 1000 per month, the deposit does not exceed $ 2000, and must be repaid. A landlord can be a bond of five until it is the entire deposit side of the border (in this case $ 2,000).

A landlord can be a part of this money a “five” is a deposit, but they must be taken into account and reimbursed as all other deposits. There is no specific legislation inputs separately since they are all treated as a deposit.

The tenant is actually receive a deposit may be restricted for five, as the lessor of the use of funds for cleaning or damage caused by five, for a bond can be used for any purpose of the Act. Wirtsleut advantage when to pay the bail bond as they can be used for a period of five generals, as well as damages and cleanup.

The fact that you have a pet deposit, while other tenants are not perhaps not a problem if the total deposits was loaded properly. They may not be at the expense of a service animal, a deposit for the animal, because these animals is a pet is not under the law.

Deposits can be of different rates for the tenant on economic factors-credit, and as these factors apply equally to everyone. Therefore, the bond could actually be stronger or weaker than other tenants, without violating the laws of fair housing.

Q: I have a house to rent, and want to know when I todmüde a tenant, the lack of consistency is in the payment of rent, there are also a means of warning intelligence agencies crime? If I am at the end of filing of an expulsion, there is a certain way of public opinion, or at least perhaps naive another donor can learn that this is not the tenant is a good risk?

Property Manager Robert Griswold replies: During your question seems simple, the question of the intelligence agency is quite complex and subject to the Federal Republic of Fair Credit Reporting Act.

This law is the promotion and precision to ensure the protection of personal data. The owners do not have the capacity to directly contact the credit agencies and bring back samples reporting or payment of certain crimes tenants.

Except perhaps for large properties management companies, most donors are not part of the major intelligence agencies, and they get the credit tenant screening reports on companies or their apartment local club members.

Check with the company that you are using to see what the reports on their policies to pay the tenant slowly. The evacuation registration is a public service record, and, in general, the assumption by the majority of credit reporting agencies.



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