I would wager that the average wear and tear exceeds $50+/mo or whatever the going rate is. The average animal will just wear things down stupidly fast. Rubbing on walls, carpet wear, stains, and then the extra thing every pet dies at least once, all adds up, and repair time and materials aren’t cheap. I think OP’s situation is probably in the more extreme side, but animals degrade property.
Why do you think pets dying wears out your property? 4 people cause more wear than 2 which causes more wear than 1. Kids cause wear and tear and yet generally speaking rent is a singular figure based on the value of the property. Landlords usually buy the cheapest flooring they can get and clean it between tenants until it actually falls apart virtually always changing flooring between tenants for obvious reasons. You want to collect rent per month and then redo the cheap flooring as infrequently as you were already planning on. The only difference is that the flooring you intend to throw away will be slightly more worn when the tenant leaves not meaningfully increasing costs for you while you collected $600 a year.
i’ve owned pets all my life. they’ve never wrecked anything, not potty in the house, rubbed on walls, stained or worn carpet. they did die, but what does that matter? it didn’t do anything whatsoever to the house. and this seems to be the norm when i’ve visited others with pets too. for sixty years now.
I would wager that the average wear and tear exceeds $50+/mo or whatever the going rate is.
Be prepared to lose your money then. There’s absolutely no way that an average pet does even a “pet rent” amount of damage per month…and “the going rate” varies quite a bit. I’ve seen pet rents as high as $125 a month. In a year some pet owning tenants pay more in pet deposits, pet rent, and other pet fees than it would cost to do renovations in their unit. I’ve seen non-refundable pet deposits as high as $500.
Sure, they may screw up carpets, but according to other laws in California you’re supposed to replace carpeting anyway every few years, carpet isn’t that expensive to begin with, and there are other flooring options (such as vinyl) available which do not wear down as easily.
Also, people wear down carpets. That’s just the business.
Boy, am I glad that I was able to get out of renting. People pretend like the landlords are doing them such a great service. Since I’ve bought, I’ve paid thousands of dollars less per year in stupid bullshit landlord fees and stuff that money directly into the bank instead.
I would wager that the average wear and tear exceeds $50+/mo or whatever the going rate is. The average animal will just wear things down stupidly fast. Rubbing on walls, carpet wear, stains, and then the extra thing every pet dies at least once, all adds up, and repair time and materials aren’t cheap. I think OP’s situation is probably in the more extreme side, but animals degrade property.
Why do you think pets dying wears out your property? 4 people cause more wear than 2 which causes more wear than 1. Kids cause wear and tear and yet generally speaking rent is a singular figure based on the value of the property. Landlords usually buy the cheapest flooring they can get and clean it between tenants until it actually falls apart virtually always changing flooring between tenants for obvious reasons. You want to collect rent per month and then redo the cheap flooring as infrequently as you were already planning on. The only difference is that the flooring you intend to throw away will be slightly more worn when the tenant leaves not meaningfully increasing costs for you while you collected $600 a year.
i’ve owned pets all my life. they’ve never wrecked anything, not potty in the house, rubbed on walls, stained or worn carpet. they did die, but what does that matter? it didn’t do anything whatsoever to the house. and this seems to be the norm when i’ve visited others with pets too. for sixty years now.
Be prepared to lose your money then. There’s absolutely no way that an average pet does even a “pet rent” amount of damage per month…and “the going rate” varies quite a bit. I’ve seen pet rents as high as $125 a month. In a year some pet owning tenants pay more in pet deposits, pet rent, and other pet fees than it would cost to do renovations in their unit. I’ve seen non-refundable pet deposits as high as $500.
Sure, they may screw up carpets, but according to other laws in California you’re supposed to replace carpeting anyway every few years, carpet isn’t that expensive to begin with, and there are other flooring options (such as vinyl) available which do not wear down as easily.
Also, people wear down carpets. That’s just the business.
Boy, am I glad that I was able to get out of renting. People pretend like the landlords are doing them such a great service. Since I’ve bought, I’ve paid thousands of dollars less per year in stupid bullshit landlord fees and stuff that money directly into the bank instead.