The apt complex I went with claims to be pet friendly.
When I went through the pet portion of the lease, it mentioned that cats must have their front paws declawed.
I was unhappy and called up the manager. She claims that it's never been enforced and she is aware that many residents of the complex are against declawing. I told her that I will not be declawing my cats and that I am signing the lease with the assumption that they have no plans to enforce that clause as she claims.
She told me that the lease probably just has that in there because the complex is managed by a large company that has the same lease for all of their apartments and that some may enforce it and others may not.
The company that manages the complex is a very large company and they managed by coincidence 3 of the 5 buildings I looked at, and another 2 dozen or more nationwide.
I'm pretty disappointed that some company would just throw that in all of their leases like it's nothing. Declawing is a big deal. They don't seem to treat it as such. It was in the fine print more or less.
Should they choose to enforce it at any point in the future, I will move out before I will declaw Ally or Ollie. There are plenty of other apartments and the housing market isn't exactly booming.
When I went through the pet portion of the lease, it mentioned that cats must have their front paws declawed.
I was unhappy and called up the manager. She claims that it's never been enforced and she is aware that many residents of the complex are against declawing. I told her that I will not be declawing my cats and that I am signing the lease with the assumption that they have no plans to enforce that clause as she claims.
She told me that the lease probably just has that in there because the complex is managed by a large company that has the same lease for all of their apartments and that some may enforce it and others may not.
The company that manages the complex is a very large company and they managed by coincidence 3 of the 5 buildings I looked at, and another 2 dozen or more nationwide.
I'm pretty disappointed that some company would just throw that in all of their leases like it's nothing. Declawing is a big deal. They don't seem to treat it as such. It was in the fine print more or less.
Should they choose to enforce it at any point in the future, I will move out before I will declaw Ally or Ollie. There are plenty of other apartments and the housing market isn't exactly booming.