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Paula Fitzgerald

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Firstly, as someone has already said - there are lease conditions in some cases that prevent pets even for owners - so you can't give tenants more rights than already exist or you'd be at risk of losing your lease. Secondly - are they proposing to make it also a rule that a rent premium can be added if we allow pets? Can we also insist that they have regular cleaners? Get the property fumigated at the end of a tenancy to ensure no remnants of infestation or eggs remain? Thirdly, are they going to make the process of claiming for pet related damage more simple? Whilst I understand the rules concerning "betterment", should a landlord be faced with replacing carpets and furniture (for example) at a time when they otherwise wouldn't this presents a sometimes unexpected cost and also, means extra work involved and, most likely, a longer rental void whilst these things are sorted out. If we were all entitled to charge a rental premium of, say, 1 extra weeks rent on each property to cover the potential longer rental void whilst a property is prepared where pets have been in habitation, it might begin to sound a little more reasonable - but let's face it, we all know that this argument is heavily weighted in favour of the tenants and the government continue to demonise landlords. All these measures will have a negative impact on tenants in the long run - more landlords will exit the market causing a shortage in supply, causing rents to rise. More fees being covered by Landlords, whilst fair, creates another rent increase as landlords simply pass on these costs in another way. If we are also to have a blanket allowance of pets, this will cause more landlords to increase their rents again to cover potential extra costs. If we, the Landlords, were to be offered relevant protections against all these things, we can all make it work - but the government are very much on the side of the tenants at present. Fairs fair, tenants do deserve protections - but so do landlords.

From: Paula Fitzgerald 16 October 2020 12:43 PM

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