To me, it really depends on the tenant. What do they dress like? What do they drive? How old are they? Again, I mentioned young as being an issue, but that is discriminating in a way as well. My bad. I think it just really depends on the feeling you get from the person or persons looking to rent.
My wife and I take care of where we rent. We plant flowers, take care of the lawn (replace and re-sod as required because a dog will cause issues with the grass) and our pets are well trained, don't scratch or ruin walls or carpet and our dog is trained to only bark when it feels there is something threatening the place.
We are good tenants that have missed out on a lot of places we would like to live because we have animals. Did we choose to have them? Yes. But we love our animals and couldn't imagine living without them now. It just sucks when we can't rent some really nice places because people won't look past the fact we have pets. There is always more to the story folks.
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