How do I hide cats from my landlord?
Italian Mike asked:
I’m moving into an appartment soon and I haven’t told them about my cats because there is nonrefundable deposit for each cat plus a monthly fee for each cat. Does anyone have any advice on how to keep them a secret?
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I’m moving into an appartment soon and I haven’t told them about my cats because there is nonrefundable deposit for each cat plus a monthly fee for each cat. Does anyone have any advice on how to keep them a secret?
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:15 am
good luck I know it can be done but if the landlord finds out they can evict you and you will then lose your security deposit especially if you sign a lease that states you have no pets.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Cats are hard to hide. Good luck
May 6th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Nope. Except don’t allow landlord in apt when ur not home. When u r home hide them in another room.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:05 am
just pay the fee
May 8th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
It’s not a good idea to try to hide your cats. Better to pay the fee. Or find somewhere that doesn’t ask for one. But you’re luvcky — many places won’t entertain the idea of a pet in rented accomodation.
May 10th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Find an apartment that is cat friendly. Cats love to sit in the window and watch the world (better than TV). I made sure my cats could be mistaken for each other so it wouldn’t be obvious that I had more than 1, but cats will be seen. You might get away with saying that you’re cat-sitting. (That won’t last more that couple days.)
May 11th, 2009 at 1:24 am
ah, yes…evading the horrible pet deposit.
I’ve done it at all of my apartments.
as long as your cats are fully potty trained… you shouldn’t have a problem! Keep them out of windows that face the main parking lot… when I left, I’d lock them in a back room…. I’d ask the landlord to always call before coming over or to let you know in advance if there will be routine maintenance….
If they do have to come.. take the cats to a friends… or, make sure you’re there when someone is coming and have a friend come over too. Put the friend in the back room w/ the cats so they won’t meow like crazy and get you busted.
IF your cat is not FULLY litter boxed trained, you’ll have a hard time getting out of it.
but, at my last place… they accused me of having cats (which I completely and utterly denied)… they said they had to replace the carpets in the whole place.. and I fought them tooth and nail on it.. because I KNOW my cats didn’t pee on the carpet.. total BS… so, you can still fight it and win.. they wanted me to pay 300bucks for new carpet–I agreed to pay $50 to super clean to carpets.
good luck.
AND.. promise if you DO get caught you won’t get rid of your babies.. you have to be prepared to pay the deposit if you get caught..if not, you need to find a place w/ a more reasonable pet deposit policy!
May 13th, 2009 at 10:50 am
I have 2 cats and a dog that we have paid a deposit for each (in several apartments). We did a walk-through with the landlord before we moved in and then again when we were leaving. As long as there wasn’t any damaged caused by pets, we got the money back. You should try to negotiate something like that. I highly recommend paying the fee either way. Cats are easier to hide than dogs, but cats LOVE to be in windows and could easily be seen. If your cats are declawed and there are hardwood floors in the apartment (they don’t hold in the urine smell if a kitty is bad) you should really try to work something out.
Oh, and a lot of the time, our new landlords wanted to meet the animals to see their behavior to decide if they were “worthy.”
Good luck!
May 15th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
why not just pay the deposit fee and prevent the hassle from occurring later on. it’s normally a lot cheaper to do this then get caught by your landlord and risk eviction.
btw landlords have the right to enter your apartment any time they want without notifying you because you are renting there property. so it’ll be very difficult to
May 17th, 2009 at 1:54 am
better keep them out of the windows good luck .i tried the same thing an finally i had to come clean.