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[quote=Anonymous]You have to check to see what your local jurisdiction says. Fair Housing Laws require landlords to accept service animals, but service animal is narrowly defined. However, local jurisdictions can include emotional therapy pets to be treated as service animals. Even then, however, the tenant would have to request a reasonable accommodation by showing that there is a disability and the need for the animal to assist with the disability, and the animal is actually assisting. Also note that even if this hurdle is met you are only required to make a reasonable accommodation, and it may be that poor behavior on the animal's part that is negatively impacting your other tenants may not be reasonable. Short answer - yes, you can probably evict, but there are steps you should follow: 1) Check your local law regarding landlord's obligations to emotional therapy pets, if any 2) If so, tenant must show that they and their pet qualify as a reasonable acccommodation. [/quote]
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