Potential tenant has a emotional support dog

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I guess I am more concern about the tenant itself. His finance is good and his gf is also moving in as well. But will he be emotional problem for me?? LOL

Not a landlord, but I manage a team at work and I will say what I would only say anonymously. People with emotional support animals (as opposed to a seeing eye dog or a seizure / blood sugar alert dog) are more likely to be entitled, high maintenance, and emotionally draining.

Should I share this with my son? His best friend was blown up in front of him. He carried the body parts back to their base. He has an emotional support dog and it’s made a huge difference in his PTSD. She is a German Shepherd. Somehow she just knows when he needs her. She climbs onto him and covers him with her body.

He is not entitled, high maintenance, or emotionally draining. He is hurting.

This is a service dog, not an emotional support animal.

I agree-this is a service dog. I'm a landlord. I would absolutely rent to someone with this sort of dog much quicker than I would rent to a high maintenance millennial with an emotional support Chihuahua.

No, it isn't. A service dog is trained to perform specific tasks; the PP's son's dog isn't, but acts on instinct. In any event, PP said the was an ESQ, not a service dog; and since it's her son, I'm going to assume she knows the difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op, you've gotten really bad advice in this thread so far. You cannot charge more fees for an emotional support animal or refuse to rent on that basis. It's against local, state, and federal fair housing laws.

It sounds like you're not contemplating doing these illegal things, though, and are just asking about any perils of people who require emotional support animals, right? Lots of veterans have them to help with PTSD. Lots of people with depression or anxiety have them. The animals help their person keep their mental health under control. No reason to be worried about a potential tenant who is taking care of their mental health in this way.

LOL

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Anonymous wrote:At its core, isn't this thread basically asking if OP should agree to rent to someone with emotional issues?

Most people have emotional issues. If you can't accept that reality, get out of the landlord game.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At its core, isn't this thread basically asking if OP should agree to rent to someone with emotional issues?

Most people have emotional issues. If you can't accept that reality, get out of the landlord game.

Avoid emotional people , there is a database of troubles tenants and most are emotional

https://landlordcreditbureau.com/bad-tenants-list/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I guess I am more concern about the tenant itself. His finance is good and his gf is also moving in as well. But will he be emotional problem for me?? LOL

Not a landlord, but I manage a team at work and I will say what I would only say anonymously. People with emotional support animals (as opposed to a seeing eye dog or a seizure / blood sugar alert dog) are more likely to be entitled, high maintenance, and emotionally draining.

Should I share this with my son? His best friend was blown up in front of him. He carried the body parts back to their base. He has an emotional support dog and it’s made a huge difference in his PTSD. She is a German Shepherd. Somehow she just knows when he needs her. She climbs onto him and covers him with her body.

He is not entitled, high maintenance, or emotionally draining. He is hurting.

How does he feel about you exploiting his trauma to win arguments on the internet? Gross.

I think he would be fine with me correcting gross assumptions and sharing the importance of PTSD dogs to our vets. I’m not trying to “win” an argument. Simply hoping people will learn to think outside their tiny world view box.

Thanks for helping me learn that there are lots of jerks online. And some of them have pets. Enlightening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At its core, isn't this thread basically asking if OP should agree to rent to someone with emotional issues?

Yep. Lots of NIMBY on here

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Anonymous wrote:At its core, isn't this thread basically asking if OP should agree to rent to someone with emotional issues?

Yep. Lots of NIMBY on here

You understand neither NIMBY nor the laws and regulations around emotional support pets.

Go hug your ES porcupine and come back when you are emotionally centered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP- I guess I am more concern about the tenant itself. His finance is good and his gf is also moving in as well. But will he be emotional problem for me?? LOL

Yes

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I guess I am more concern about the tenant itself. His finance is good and his gf is also moving in as well. But will he be emotional problem for me?? LOL

Yes

I would find, upon further review, that maybe his finance is not good enough.

[Anonymous]

He's probably just paid for the Emotional Support Animal certificate online and is using it as a way to get out of fees.

Pet fee, pet rent, fees to bring it on the plane, etc.

ESA are a joke and fake.

Service dogs, yes, 100%. I have a relative with one and that dog is nothing like any ESA I have ever met. You can dangle a piece of meat in front of the service dog's face and she will not react. She has even learned to dodge someone coming in for a pet when she's working!

I see the same ESA at my Target all the time. The dog is yappy and doesn't obey commands. Clearly a fake. And yet Target doesn't do anything to avoid any bad press or getting recorded by the person.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I guess I am more concern about the tenant itself. His finance is good and his gf is also moving in as well. But will he be emotional problem for me?? LOL

Not a landlord, but I manage a team at work and I will say what I would only say anonymously. People with emotional support animals (as opposed to a seeing eye dog or a seizure / blood sugar alert dog) are more likely to be entitled, high maintenance, and emotionally draining.

+1. This person is going to have an excuse every month about why the rent is late and expect you to honor it. If they had a legitimate disability, they would have a service animal who has gone through rigorous training.

"legitimate disability"???? This all depends on the purpose of the animal. Mental health support does not require specific training from an animal, it basically requires the animal to have a temperament that allows for an emotional connection.

That is called being a pet. There is no way to measure whether an animal is emotionally connecting (LOL) with the owner. My cat is not aggressive and cuddly but he's not an emotional support animal. There is a way to measure if a certified service animal is able to accurately detect a drop in blood sugar or correctly signal whether a street is safe to cross.

[Anonymous]

I am not sure how this is a 7 page thread nor did I read them all, but the issue is that there is virtually no regulation as to what constitutes an ESA. The tenant needs a doctor's note, but there are online companies that generate these. It's a convenient way to bypass pet rent and pet deposits. And you cannot discriminate against people with the animal.

[Anonymous]

Emotional support dogs aren't actually service animals. People declare their animals "emotional support" in order to flaunt airline and rental laws/rules. If you want to rent to scofflaws that's your own business but make sure you have a landlord lawyer available for advice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I guess I am more concern about the tenant itself. His finance is good and his gf is also moving in as well. But will he be emotional problem for me?? LOL

Yes

I would find, upon further review, that maybe his finance is not good enough.

+1

[Anonymous]

Just ghost them, don’t rent to dog owners or mental tenants. Don’t put anything in writing when you turn them down. Just stall until you find a better tenant and if they bug you tell them it went to someone else.