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PET DEPOSITS

We love pets and most of us at Boardwalk Realty & Development have them.  Sadly, we have found that a few dog owners do not properly tend to these animals.  We have experienced past problems with flea infestation, soiled carpets (as well as other dog-related damages), odors that cannot be removed, and owners that allow their dogs to use the common areas as litter boxes and then do not clean up after their dogs. During the time that we permitted dogs (one per unit and no larger than 25 pounds) we found residents that were keeping several dogs and some that even brought vicious breeds to the properties.   We have also experienced irresponsible pet owners who leave their dogs unattended for several weeks or owners that permit dogs to bark through the night thereby disturbing other residents.  We have even had residents that expect us to find dogs that have Kennel Cough and have infected other dogs.  Managing these issues became overwhelming and detracted from our efforts in providing our residents with great places to live.  We opted to provide great places for our residents to live instead of managing dog problems caused by a handful of irresponsible dog owners.

We work very hard to provide our residents with clean, quiet, comfortable and well-maintained residences  as well-kept common areas but have found that dogs, ferrets, lizards, and rodents of any kind  are not compatible with our properties and our goal of providing great places and great communities for our residents.  We are unable to keep the properties in the kind of condition that we can be proud of when  dogs, lizards, rodents, or ferrets are present.  We are sorry to report that on June 1, 2011 we initiated a strict "No Dog" policy.  Existing residents that had them before we initiated this policy are permitted to keep them.  Existing residents  and new residents are  not permitted to keep dogs on our properties.  Our goal is to become dog-free communities at all of our communities by May 31, 2012.

We do however permit cats and rabbits (one per apartment).  A refundable pet deposit of $300 will be charged.   A rent surcharge of $25 per month will also be added to the monthly rental rate.  Fish are happily accepted and there is no deposit for them