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Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees

70 points · 173 comments · toomuchtodo

  1. loeg · · focus · HN ↗
    Banning junk fees / truth in advertising is good. But I absolutely hate that pet rent was bundled in to this. Pets occasionally cause very high amounts of real damage that should be covered by pet owners, not tenants without pets. And Seattle has banned every other possible avenue of passing this expense only to the parties responsible (higher deposits).
    1. verdverm · · focus · HN ↗
      land lords assess and charge for damages, regardless of source

      why should pets require a monthly, non refundable fee regardless of damages or not?

      My main gripe is my building charges $50 more for EV spots and then wants to charge as much as the charging stations, that's a nope for me, I'll just charge while buying groceries

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