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    Default What Can You Do if Your Roommate Gets a Dog Without Your Consent

    In California, if you are renting premises with a roommate and the roommate gets a dog without your permission, what are your options? The roommates just extended their lease by a year, and the roommate who objects to the dog has serious dog allergies.

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    Default Re: What Can You Do if Your Roommate Gets a Dog Without Your Consent

    If the lease prohibits dogs, the affected roommate can see if the landlord will take action.

    Otherwise, things get pretty complicated -- for the most part, the issue is going to fall down to the question of how considerate the roommate is, and whether the roommate will voluntarily re-home the dog during the balance of the tenancy. It may be possible for the affected roommate to substitute a different roommate on the lease, although that will typically require consent from both the dog-owning roommate and the landlord. If the roommate who bought the dog knew or reasonably should have known about the allergy, the affected roommate may be able to articulate some form of breach of contract suit.

    Ideally they'll work things out, as the other options are more cumbersome and, if they involve the courts, slow and potentially expensive.

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