New survey to look into trouble of renting with pets

30 2008
Growing numbers of landlords are clamping down on allowing tenants to move their pets into their properties, it has been revealed.

As demand for rental accommodation keeps on soaring as professionals see it as making more economic sense than trying to buy a place, landlords can now afford to be more choosy about who they take on as tenants.

So, alongside opting for those with good jobs over students or people out of work, landlords who now accept pets into their properties are becoming increasingly hard to find.

This has prompted the welfare charity The Dogs Trust to launch a new 'Renting with Pets' survey across the UK in a bid to gain a fuller appreciation of the problems people are now facing when it comes to renting with their four-legged friends.

Questions to be put to tenants include the type of pet they attempted to find a property with as well as what type of property they both wished for and eventually ended up in.

The initiative comes ahead of the charity's Lets with Pets Campaign, which is scheduled for a 2009 launch.

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