Assistance Animals & Rental Housing

Apartment maintenance is one of the few routine events that can change who controls your front door, which rooms stay

Searching for help with an assistance-animal problem can produce an awkward mix of government pages, advocacy groups, law firms, commercial

“We reviewed your request and cannot approve the animal. Our property does not permit dogs over 25 pounds. Please make

Dogs must weigh 25 pounds or less. Restricted breeds are not permitted. Our insurance does not allow that kind of

NO PETS. Animals are not permitted anywhere on the property. A sentence like that can appear in a rental listing,

Imagine that the move-in sheet for an apartment shows four separate amounts: Security deposit: $1,800 Pet deposit: $300 Monthly pet

Two renters ask the same apartment manager for an exception to a no-pets policy. One renter is blind and uses

A reasonable accommodation becomes easier to understand when you stop treating it as a special status attached to an animal

A rental property can have a perfectly valid pet policy and still need to handle an assistance-animal request differently. That

The difference between a service animal and an emotional support animal seems straightforward until housing enters the conversation. In a