Recent content by achiafo

This is a good point, but my wife and I had to move into an apartment in a small town, with few housing options. We did manage to find a unit that allows pets, but it shouldn't matter to begin with. An ESA is not a pet.

I concealed nothing.

I'm curious. How much "damage" do you really think two cats can do over the course of one week? Either way, your argument is invalid, because tenants are still on the hook for whatever damage their ESA's cause. So it's really no excuse to not support ESA's in the first place. But you can keep...

This is bull. Did you even read the OP? I wasn't going to even move the animals in, until I had several traumatic events that happened AFTER I signed the lease. Even so, the law states that a tenant is in no way obligated to disclose their ESA before signing a lease. They can do this for any...

See, the issue here isn't a matter of actually allowing an ESA; that part he did, but the issue here is making threats of retaliation for a tenant exercising their legally protected rights. The Civil Rights Commission over the phone had called it "adverse action." And it is illegal to do so.

Hey folks. New to these forums, so please be gentle. The state in question is Iowa. Here is the scenario. My wife and I had moved into an apartment unit about 10 days ago. We signed the rental agreement on the 5th of October. It is a month-to-month agreement. We did not actually move in until...