The joys of being a landlord. In our first (and currently only) investment property, we've had tenants for 3 months. They approached our property manager on Friday asking if they could have a 'small, rescued' dog. After considering the request over the weekend we advised our property manager on Monday that we would be unwilling to alter the rental contract to allow pets. (It has a very clear no pets clause). We did not go into the reasons for our decision with the property manager.
This was passed onto the tenant who in the course of a call with the property manager:
* Yelled at her
* Verbally abused her
* Threatened to take us to the tribunal for denying the request.
It also came out during this conversation that the 'small' dog, is actually a bullmastif. Which females can grow to between 40 and 50kgs and males, 50 and 60kgs - hardly small in my book.
We've reaffirmed our decision that we will not alter the rental contract and any hesitation we had in making that decision has evaporated.
What would you do in this situation?
What do you think our chances of winning are if they do take it to the tribunal?
If they do win at the tribunal, it'll be a short lived victory as they'll be out at the end of the 12 month agreement.
This was passed onto the tenant who in the course of a call with the property manager:
* Yelled at her
* Verbally abused her
* Threatened to take us to the tribunal for denying the request.
It also came out during this conversation that the 'small' dog, is actually a bullmastif. Which females can grow to between 40 and 50kgs and males, 50 and 60kgs - hardly small in my book.
We've reaffirmed our decision that we will not alter the rental contract and any hesitation we had in making that decision has evaporated.
What would you do in this situation?
What do you think our chances of winning are if they do take it to the tribunal?
If they do win at the tribunal, it'll be a short lived victory as they'll be out at the end of the 12 month agreement.