New apartment management has different aquarium rules.
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The guy I rent my house from walked in my house, saw all my tanks, and basically **** a chicken. He loooooooves fish apparently. Renters are hit or miss. My old place let me have 1 30g.......what the heck can you do with 1 tank?
my landlord brought me the fish from his community tank in a 5gal bucket before he shipped off to iraq last year. He didn't seem too upset that there was racks setup with over a dozen tanks in the living room.
Personally I would tell them (in writing) that you have fish tanks and politely request a written OK for them (as per the new rules)
They then have 2 options.
Send you back a note saying it's OK.
OR start legal proceedings to evict you.
No sane management is going to evict an existing and presumably well paying tenant over a couple of existing fish tanks, and then you are on record as having the tanks and so within the rules.
Sometimes the best defence is a good offence. Go in there, play by the rules and act like you expect it to be rubber stamped. It probably will be.
Ian
They then have 2 options.
Send you back a note saying it's OK.
OR start legal proceedings to evict you.
No sane management is going to evict an existing and presumably well paying tenant over a couple of existing fish tanks, and then you are on record as having the tanks and so within the rules.
Sometimes the best defence is a good offence. Go in there, play by the rules and act like you expect it to be rubber stamped. It probably will be.
Ian
I agree with ianab, do the right thing. If they want to be ****heads, they can evict you. My mom lives in a no dog co-op. There are people buying dogs left and right now. Every time they find someone they get their lawyer and take these people to court. They either have to get rid of their dog or they have to get out. And for the few months that you extended your lease, even if they told you to leave they can't make you get out that week. They can't here in NY anyways. It took my neighbor a year plus he had to give the tenants $2000 to get out!
What I did in my apartment was this:
Whenever they were going to enter my apartment, they were required to give us 24 hours notice. Then, whenever I got a notice, I would throw a sheet or a towel over my tanks. If they yelled at me for having tanks, then I would just yell at them for snooping around in my apartment without my permission because I know that they would have had to have removed or lifted the sheet to see what was underneath.
They are allowed to enter your apartment only to do the maintenance task at hand, not to look through your things.
All that said, I had two tanks, a 10 and a 20 long, for 4 years in an apartment that allowed NO aquariums and I never had a problem using this method.
Whenever they were going to enter my apartment, they were required to give us 24 hours notice. Then, whenever I got a notice, I would throw a sheet or a towel over my tanks. If they yelled at me for having tanks, then I would just yell at them for snooping around in my apartment without my permission because I know that they would have had to have removed or lifted the sheet to see what was underneath.
They are allowed to enter your apartment only to do the maintenance task at hand, not to look through your things.
All that said, I had two tanks, a 10 and a 20 long, for 4 years in an apartment that allowed NO aquariums and I never had a problem using this method.
i will second (or third if thats what we are up to now) ian's post.
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Legally it depends on the terms of you lease extension and what was covered in the original lease at the time you signed it. If the original lease allowed the tanks without notification AND the extension only continued the terms of the original lease without any clauses about rules changes, then the new company can't do squat for an eviction, or even a poor reference, especially if they are the ones that signed the lease extension. If the extension was signed prior to them taking over, then that might be a bit more of a problem depending on the state you're living in, but there's also usually a grace period.
Legalities aside though, it's always best to play in good faith. Besides as someone else said, you're leaving in three months and you were already so that's two reasons for them to give you the go-ahead if they don't like it. Playing nice generally worked for me. Back in my renting days, I'd often make it a habit to wave as I went past the manager's office. It went a long ways when dealing with the upstairs neighbors whose dogs would leave little presents in the stairway.
Legalities aside though, it's always best to play in good faith. Besides as someone else said, you're leaving in three months and you were already so that's two reasons for them to give you the go-ahead if they don't like it. Playing nice generally worked for me. Back in my renting days, I'd often make it a habit to wave as I went past the manager's office. It went a long ways when dealing with the upstairs neighbors whose dogs would leave little presents in the stairway.
Around here people just have the dog declared a 'therapy pet'. Then it gets covered under the Americans With Disabilities Act and often times gets through the ban. Not sure if it holds up in court really, but seems to work anyways.
