Assistance animal is a blanket term that covers service animals and emotional support animals. When someone requests that you allow an assistance animal under the Fair Housing Act, it can be either a service animal or an emotional support animal. Under the law, assistance animals do not have to have a certificate or specific training.
Service animals are performing a service, such as a seeing-eye dog or an animal that can detect the onset of an epileptic seizure.
Emotional support animals provide support for someone with a mental disability.
Get clarity about assistance animals in “What Property Managers Need to Know About Assistance Animals” in Texas REALTOR® magazine.
” Under the law, assistance animals do not have to have a certificate or specific training”
How are these assistance animals then different from your everyday pets ?
What if the next tenant is allergic to pets (assistance animals)?
Is a landlord in Texas required to refund a pet deposit during the lease term if an approved pet is claimed to be an ESA after the lease has been signed and pet deposit has been paid?
Nice Article… Can you please share the Massachusetts laws for keeping the service animals or support animals in rental home? I am bit confused because different proprietors have different opinions. Please clarify !
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Which issue of Texas Realtors?
Hi Do homeowners have to accept a ESA animal even though it might be a agressive breed and over the weight limit. Apartments have to accept them but do houses on the MLS have to?
I just had a tenant move in who did not disclose that they have emotional support animals. Now we find out that they have not only a dog, but a pot belly pig. This is in a large subdivision in Fort Worth.