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The Search For Pet Friendly Apartment Rentals

By Arthur Anderson


You are prepared to pack your stuff, prepared to leave your old place. Then suddenly, you remember you have a pet. You have not found an apartment yet. The challenge begins. It does not have to sound so full of agony, because it is not like that, although it can be tough.

Give yourself time. Do not be in a hurry but be prepared enough. Check fliers, online advertisements, and other postings of pet friendly apartment rentals. Surely there will be one, waiting for you, since there is in Palm Springs California and any other state and city in the United States. Give it time while you are still currently renting. Do not do it when you are almost moving out.

You have to understand that you can be rejected over and over again when you tell potential landlords about it. Put yourself in their situation. It is tough for them too and they cannot just agree with you, right then and there. There may be a time when they had a bad experience with old tenants before, who owned pets and they just want to stand with this decision, this time around.

There are many factors why you will be refused. He may have neighbors who just cannot come around with animals living near them. There may have been members of management or other tenants allergic to pets and they cannot risk it, for fear of losing business. It is not that they do not want the pets there just because. Landlords have reasons too. Understandable reasons.

They may not want to deal with the same kind of thing any longer. If they want to be firm with that, this time around, politely accept that and move on. Do not waste time trying to figure out why or why not. Surely, in places like Palm Springs, California, your city or state, like any other will have the right place for you.

Be flexible when looking for dog or cat friendly places to rent. You cannot just apply the same factors as when you were choosing an apartment for yourself only. This will not be good for you. Be open about getting a place that is friendly to dogs but does not necessarily meet your expectation of comfort and luxury.

The important thing is, you can be comfortable while having the dog you cannot live without, or the cat that had been with you through good and bad. Be patient and wait for the right time that the right apartment will be available to accommodate bot of you. Things like this are not easy.

Introduce it to the prospective landlord or manager of the property but try not talk your way into pushing them to accept your dog or cat. Learn how to negotiate. Offer things like professional cleanup for the rented place.

Keep it real and honest. Do not attempt to work your way through getting a place without telling the landlord you have a dog. You will risk its health and it will not be comfortable or wise for you anyway, when you have to sneak your pet in and out. Trust yourself. You will get yourself to the right rental apartment. Just keep an open mind, and you will make it.




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