Tips and Tricks for finding a home for you and your dog in NYC

What Pet Owners Must Do to Get New York Apartments

Emily Louise Andrews for The New York Times

Gerald Allarde of East 30th Street takes in the view while Leo gives the camera an I-deserve-a-biscuit look. The dog, an American Staffordshire terrier, made the Allarde family’s apartment hunt a headache.

By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM

Published: March 29, 2013   

In a seemingly endless game of cat-and-mouse, pet owners do many things to ease their way into the apartment of their dreams — legitimate and not so.

They offer to pay large sums in advance to cover the potential cost of refinishing scratched floors or replacing damaged lobby carpet. Owners of large dogs fudge a pet’s weight (always downward) and the breed. Owners of several black cats will admit to having just one, on the theory that all black cats look the same.

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A couple with clashing wish lists...

FOR most of his six years in New York, Paul Pinizzotto leased a three-bedroom duplex in a squat, no-frills building in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The rent ended up at $2,250 a month. Over the years, he rented out the extra bedrooms to a series of roommates.

The apartment was spacious and sunny, but “it was a place that I slept in,” Mr. Pinizzotto said. “I never felt connected with the apartment. It was all brand new, which I am not into, but which a lot of people like.”


His big complaint was the utter lack of charm.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/realestate/a-couple-with-clashing-wish-lists-the-hunt.html?_r=1