Would you rent out to tenants with a cat? 🐈

Here in the US pet deposits are routine and expected.

Cats with claws generally destroy furniture and draperies - they do little damage to walls or floors, but if cats urinate on a floor or against a wall, the smell is almost impossible to get out if it gets underneath/behind anything.

I've never been a landlord, but one must develop a sense of these things? You never know sometimes, like a job interview where the person looks and sounds fine but ends up being a terrible employee.

If they have pets, then they can find suitable accommodation.

California passed statewide rent control laws in 2019. Previously, rent control was only in bigger cities, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc. You can basically only evict someone if they haven't paid rent (and THAT has been essentially tolled for the pandemic - it's supposed to expire in January, probably still going to take a year to get someone out, with the courts jammed.)

We've got people hoarding propane tanks, gasoline containers, all we can do is notice them every time we see them. Six, seven, eight time offenders. It sucks for the good neighbors.