Hard To Find A Home....

[HUGGYBEAR]

Ok, Im graduating (B.S. Animal Science) at the end of this month and I know I will be moving soon hopefully, anyways It is really hard for me to find apartments, condos, houses for rent with two rotties, Like it was said on the insurance thread It only takes the "Rott.." to get out of my mouth for them to say no. and then they are getting P.C. with it!!! instead of saying we dont accept rotties or pitbulls, etc. they put a weight limit on the dogs accepted, like we dont accept dogs over 20/30 pounds but im quite sure if someone said I have a Standard poodle it would pass......Anywho it took me the longest time to find the house that I am in and I only got it because I took my girl sasha with me (shyne wasn't here yet) and showed him how she was. Irresponsible owners that let their dogs be aggressive for no reason, and tear up rental places make it hard to find a place and make pet deposits (seen them > $800) much higher for responsible owners.... Any suggestions or any known housing in the Houston, TX/ Georgia area??

[Zephir]

Houston, TX/ Georgia?? That's a big area!! Where in Georgia are you looking to live?? My husband's in the military so we move alot, and we have 3 Rotties. We currently live in Columbus, GA. I find that when we are looking for a new place it seems to help when we tell the rental agents that the dogs are show dogs (not all of them), they are highly obedience trained, compete in obedience and have their CGC's. You usually have to explain what the CGC is. If your dogs are not already OB trained now would be the time to do it. Also, we stress that the dogs are crated/ kennelled when we are not home; they are never left unsupervised. And we have a very high liability insurance policy b/c of the dogs. It may also help to take one of the dogs into the rental agency - with their permission, of course.

Also, if they do not allow dogs at all or over a certain weight ask the agent to ask the owner of the property for consideration. That's what we did for the house we are in now b/c they didn't allow animals at all. Be prepared to pay high, non-refundable deposits plus pet rent per month. We usually pay $400-600 in non-refundable deposits each time we move. We're moving to the Virginia Beach area next year so I have already started looking there. It takes alot of time to find a place that will accept Rotties, espcecially multiple Rotties, so start looking now.

[StephanieandToby]

When I was looking for housing, I gave my Vet. as a reference.