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Up to 70% of families renting homes include pets. By restricting your home to "no pets," the pool of available residents is reduced, and those with pets are encouraged to look elsewhere or register their pet as a service animal or emotional support animal. Registering as a service/ESA means, according to Florida law, they can bring along their animal, no questions asked, and we can't charge a pet fee to cover the additional paperwork and inspections necessary to protect your property.

Properties that accept pets enjoy better marketability, command higher rent values, and experience shorter vacancy periods. Our two decades of experience have shown that properties initially restricting pets eventually pivot to accepting them due to lost income from increased vacancy.

We utilize advanced inspection techniques including nighttime blacklight inspection and electric conductivity probing to test for the presence of urine crystals in carpeting to ensure we're holding tenant's accountable for pet accidents. In the end, the most frequent pet damage we find to a property is to carpeting, which is easily replaced. We utilize the tenant's security deposit to remediate these damages and you're further protected by our Damage Protection should repair costs exceed the deposit.

At Eaton Realty, we require all properties we manage to accept pets. If you want to opt out of this policy, your monthly management fee will increase by 1% as compensation for the additional effort required to market and manage "no-pet" properties.