If this way of thinking became more widespread, all it would achieve would be the addition of child fees, not the removal of pet fees.

Apartments charging pet fees: 🫸

Apartments charging child fees: 🫸

Landlords being charged with crimes: 👍

They would absolutely charge a "children fee" if they were legally able to.

Excuse me, but the bigger scam is the entire Landlord concept

This sounds like someone that has never seen what cats can do to a property when the owner doesn't take care of them.

Piss drenched carpet and moldy walls are a pain in the ass to fix.

I vaguely recall reading that such child fees would likely be illegal (in the US)? I think it might also be illegal to exclude families with children from being eligible to rent a given location. Don't quote me on either, though, because I don't have sources on hand.

Fees for children would be illegal discrimination under fair housing laws.

I once toured an apartment that charged pet fees and for dogs REQUIRED A DNA TEST so they could fine you for not picking up poop.

Someone out there is dna testing literal dog shit.

Last time I was charged a pet fee, I asked them "So if my wife gets pregnant, do we need to plan to pay extra on the rent?"

The leasing agent looked at me like I was crazy and said "Of course not, that would be ridiculous!"

And then she realized... Like I could literally see it flash across her face. She dropped it.

Society rather wants people to have kids and not pets for self-preservation reasons

Children are members of society. They're imperfect, but still. As other members of society, we have a duty to at least tolerate them.

I find it very sad that some people treat them like a different species. You wouldn't hear people say, without being countered, "I don't want to see old people" or "I don't want to have to interact with women". It's fucked up, you don't choose the other members of society.

All it takes is one untrained dog with separation anxiety to chew through walls and tear trim off of door frames to trigger rules like this.

Or one elderly pet with severe incontinence peeing in the closest carpeted corner instead of the litter box.

With that said, children certainly have a much greater capacity for damage, especially when they get older. Infants? Not so much.

don't spread this pro landlord bs

Tough one. I've never wanted kids and my God are they so goddamn loud...

But, as more of my friends have kids I feel more and more for parents, it's damned tough to raise kids and finding housing, especially in my city is brutal.

Still, not like a fee helps anyone beyond the landlord.

Don't give them ideas

Just landlords gouging every cent.

I have done a lot of residential work over the years a lot of sales work a lot of things where I've been in a lot of people's houses. Nothing smells worse than a person with cats who even goes a week or two without taking care of their litter box. And that smells sticks in everything. I have pets and I agree that a pet deposit is something needed because damn they do a lot of damage.