[QQ9ktYrV]

What about Koi and that shepherd you have? What are you going to do with them?

[adactthrd]

Maybe the guy who owns the trailer will rent it to you since it's not selling or maybe he would sell it to you as a rent to own. If you decide to do a rent to own look over the agreement carefully and make sure everything is spelled out clearly including what portion of rent goes toward purchase and who is responsible for maintenance on the house, who is responsible for utilities, who is responsible when something breaks, etc.

If I were you, I'd stay away from apartments, though. I don't know about the rest of the country, but around here decent apartments are more expensive than renting houses and you have a lot more restrictions with a lot less privacy.

[tomspoumn]

I work for Bell Partners, Inc. We have about 230 properties in the southeast. I work at the second largest property in our portfolio-we have 605 units and over 1,000 residents.

Almost any complex of a good size (30,50,70 units etc) with any sort of amenities (pools, fitness centers, etc) will most likely be managed by a property management company of some size. The maintenance, paperwork etc is too much for one person once you get past 10-15 units. Any management company will have stricter rules than private landlords.

However, there are a lot of smaller duplexes, four plexes, and townhomes for rent in almost any city in America. These are usually private landlords who own the property and rent it out without the assistance of the National Apartment Association. They can make their own rules and own leases.

I would just start driving around and calling the numbers on the signs. I would let anyone that I talk to know about the dogs right upfront, so if it's not going to work you don't waste your time with viewing the property or the application process if they later decide the dogs are a no-go.

Start saving your $$ now. Pet fees/deposits are never cheap and are hard to get back once you move out. Once you lease an apartment, do the move in inspection with the landlord and take good notes of any pre-existing damages or cosmetic problems. Sign it together and get yourself a copy. You have to be able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that your dogs didn't cause any damages to get your pet deposit back.

Once you find something you like, feel free to PM me about any of the paperwork/policies. I can definitely let you know if anything is BS, illegal, or unfair.

What a wonderfully insightful and helpful post.

An example of why public forums are awesome. People with all kinds of backgrounds and knowledge can come together and share what they know.

[Ad0i89Od]

whats a matter with craiglist offerings for apartments? thats were i found mine and it was a good apartment. its your deal at the end of the day and as far as the name its not actually lying. its just like how people call there dogs American petbull terrier. its the same thing your just taking out the pit part. if you google search American bull terrier APBT images appear. i dont find it to be lieing. maybe a bit deceiving, but not lying. weight of the dog, youll see for yourself. they dont have scales in the office building. lieing on 10lbs is nothing. if there is a problem which i can serioulsly say there wont be all you have to say is he gained 10 lbs. there aint nothing wrong with that.


good luck though many places dont allow them and the max is 50lbs. if you have to do what you have to do at that moment of time you will do it too. 50lbs is the max at most places....... if not just find a rental home...... fyi i had to do what i had to do at that time of my life and i wasnt giving up the dog like a irresponsible person.

[RadcliffXX]

For one let me point out to you that giving your dog up because YOU need a home isn't irresponsible. I do not like craigslist. There are a lot of false ads on it around here and I've heard of too many people getting killed down here from craigslist ads. I'll pass.

50 max per dog. My dogs do not weigh 50 pounds. neither of them. So i don't see where that would have been an issue. But okay.

And read my post because way up there I said I wasn't going to to the apartment thing, but a private landlord (rental home) or buy my own home.

[CruzIzabella]

Yeah I was looking at that. Looked like way too much drama for what we'd be paying. Plus I like the idea of talking with this guy about a rent to own option. Hubby liked the idea too.

[xtrupoke]

You could try advertising on Craigslist that you are looking for an apartment that allows pit bulls and your price range, number of bedrooms, location etc

[aLZ9zKsO]

Does your dog have papers? I had a similar issue trying to rent our house as well as the apartment before. My vet told me that because I don't have papers I can't prove he's pure APBT, and likewise neither can anyone else. He had me tell my prospective landlords that ace is a terrier mix/mut. When you look at him he's clearly pit, and the apartments, who also had us do a dog interview tried to tell me they don't rent to pit mixes. My reply was, "if I can't prove his breed on paper, then you can't tell me he's pit, poodle, or anything else". I paid my pet deposit and moved in.

[MeeveStesia]

I can certainly see that side of it. I could well be wrong but I figured once they approved him on paper it would be hard to come back change their mind. My land lord for my current house didn't much care once he met ace, the big lovable clown of a dog lol.

[AmfitNom]

MJJ, I was actually thinking about the Classes thing. Its going to take probably damn near a year to get both dogs Classes all the way up to CGC. But at the same time, as much as I want to move out of this shit hole of a house........ (Sorry its true), and have my own private home and so forth; I do need to place both dogs in training. Jud starting with beginner and Snow with Intermediate (Then the baby is due in december so there will be a little while where I wont be able to do any training with the dogs). Though while I am waiting to do all of this; I can be putting back money. Which is what we are doing right now.

I am slowly working on the folder for the dogs. I have a binder some where with ALL of my pets that I have owned; their shot and medical records. I really need to find it. Its amongst books somewhere LOL. Also moving closer to Shreveport, LA; I need to make sure that there isn't any additional restrictions on the breed of dogs I own. As far as I know there isn't. But it never hurts to look.

There is this trailer on like 5 arces of land that I Really want. Its a double wide and has 3 beds and 1 bath. The property itself still has a for sale sign on it. But its no longer listed on the internet or on the Realtor site. My MIL knows the guy who is trying to sale the property and I want to get with her one day and see if we can contact him and find out what is up with the property. Maybe make a deal on it or something. Its been For sale for going on 2 years now. The market in this area is reallllly slow.



I'm rambling now, sorry. I have made it a habit before to call places even that said no pets allowed. I do plan on continuing that even if we have to find a rent to own or for rent home. ^^