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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. dghlsakjg · · focus · HN ↗
      Damage is what damage deposits are for, and Seattle allows pet damage deposits.
      1. loeg · · focus · HN ↗
        Seattle severely caps deposits; this isn't even close to adequate.
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