Read the Housing Wanted section of Craigslist.
It seems CA has opened the door to “it’s a service animal because I said it is a service animal”.
One person has 3 cats, all of which are “service animals”.
And he wonders why his phone doesn’t ring.
People who want to play games can do it on somebody else’s property.
If they exploit that loophole, how much trouble would they be to evict? And what happened to your last residence?
Depends on local and state ordinances. As a person who has a wife with a service dog, if there’s no state or local protection, or those protections do not involve immediate enforcement, then you’re stuck with either suing or writing a letter of complaint to the Justice Dept. In the case of small businesses, the end result won’t be very satisfying. You can probably eventually gain compliance or win a small settlement, but most people won’t bother.
So if you’re an owner of a single restaurant, you will probably get away with such a policy unless the city or state has a robust enforcement policy.
Believe me, I found this out the hard way in Georgia. A store manager told us to get out, we ignored him, we cashed out, and the police stopped us in the parking lot. They stated that the ADA violation was a civil offense, not a police matter, but that our being there against the manager’s wishes was a police matter and told us in no uncertain terms that we had to leave if told to. If the manager was wrong, we’d have to take it up in the courts.
But Hey! we just repealed the “I don’t want my kid vaccinated because” rule.
It just took an outbreak of measles to do it.
If the tenant has a bonafide prescription for 3 cats, they won’t be evicted for that cause. After the two years where the tenant will enjoy “the presumption of retaliation”, then the landlord best contract out for new kitchen and bathrooms so he can evict with a “no cause”, one simply can’t live in a unit during the normal and usual gutting and refurbishing.
It’s not the landlord’s fault the deal fell through the next day … [wolfish grin]