so are you saying I do have to inform them ahead of time and I’d be in the wrong if I do not?
so are you saying I do have to inform them ahead of time and I’d be in the wrong if I do not?
Your landlord lacks psychic powers. If you fail to request accommodation, your landlord does not have to offer you accommodation.
If you want to roll the dice and see what happens if you don't disclose your ESA or share your ESA letter with your landlord, as they say, it's your life. But your landlord does not have to accommodate your ESA unless and until you request the accommodation.
Thanks so much. I was under the assumption they had some psychic powers for quite some time, but that clears things up ((:
I just asked whether I have to inform them ahead of time of me bringing me ESA pet home, or not. The law states they have to honor my ESA, not that I need to give advanced notice of it or whether I may upon the landlords request if it comes up.
Whether you tell him beforehand or after the fact, you still have to notify him. So what's the big deal? You're only going to be there thirty days - why is telling him ahead of time (the courteous thing) such a problem?
The law (the FHA) says that they have to honor your properly documented request for an ESA as an accommodation of your disability. They have no obligation to accommodate you unless and until you (a) request accommodation and (b) document that you are entitled to the accommodation via your ESA letter. So if you make no request for accommodation, they are legally entitled to regard you as violating a no pets rule, with your having to try to retroactively correct their impression and belatedly request accommodation after you are caught violating that rule. It's simpler and easier to properly request an accommodation.