Apartment rules/laws
 

So I bought a pump from a nice woman from Canreef today ,and she is selling everything because she is being told that she is no longer allowed to keep a tank in her apartment. She has lived in the apartment for a couple years if I remember correctly. When she moved in she payed a damage deposit , and was told by the manager that she was allowed to have a fish tank. The rules also say that she IS allowed to have pets. Recently a new manager has taken over and told her that she is not allowed to keep a tank in her apartment anymore. The tank she had running was only a 40 gallon.

Is anyone out there familiar with the law when it comes to situations like this ?
It doesn't seem right that a manager of an apartment building can make decisions like this. This woman is very passionate about the hobby and I feel bad for her that she has been forced to shut down her tank.

Any thoughts ?

That sucks!
 

Does this lady have the permission to have an aquarium in writing from the first manager, also I would be calling the owner's of the building and see what they have to say. When I was about to move into the mobile park I live in I inquired to park manager at the time and he said I could not have our small dog. I made the application anyway and sent it to the park owners, guess what it was all approved. Turns out that manager had his own agenda. He's long gone along with his agenda. It may be worth her time to check.
Her new manager may not be able to force the issue if she was allowed in the past. :phone:

I'm not sure Laurie , I should ask her if she had anything in writing from the first manager.

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she might need to get extra insurance to appease the owner of the building.i would contact the owner through the property management company and state that for years she was allowed to keep fish and that other people are allowed to keep pets.

my landlord doesn't know about the 280+ gallons worth of tanks I have in the house. I mentioned I had a tank, but I never mentioned how big it was.

Lets hope he never finds out. haha.

I'm also not allowed to get home owners insurance because my girlfriend and I aren't married.

Huh? My 'wife' and I aren't legally married, but we have home owners insurance.

Excuse me ???
Could you explain this ?
Makes no sense to me

I guess I should of also mentioned, there are three of us that live here. I've went to four different insurance companies for home owners insurance, and none of them will sign off on it due to increased liability. One offered us basic insurance for fire and flood (no theft), at $80 a month. Ha.

When I rented I had renters insurance which is the very basic thing that anybody who rents should have every insurance provider has that it IMO should be made mandatory to get if you rent.

My landlord had a no pet clause but made an exception when I had no issues to my landlord requesting the BCSPCA doing random checks on my cats and when I had gotten my tanks my landlord had me sign a contract that if the tank burst it was my cost to clean up which again I had no issues with

Bottom line if you rent it is extremely important to have signed documentation from either your landlord or manager otherwise you could end up holding a very large bill and no recourse verbal or gentleman's agreements are not a good way to do business

I could be wrong but I swear our strata rule for fish is "a reasonable number of fish". My friend said it was in the strata book as that. I'm sure there's probably a gallon limited you would think. Really wouldn't take much to flood thru a wood building even 30 gallons could leak thru and restoration companies would have to come cut open ceilings etc to dry the place properly. That's what there scared of most likely.

Worked in the industry doing fire and flood restoration in the past. $80 a month is cheap compared to the cost of potential repairs. A seemingly small leak from a dishwasher or tank can easily do $20,000 to $30,000 in damage.
I would never go without insurance myself.

ya but that will be covered by the homeowners policy, as a renter the only thing you need is content insurance to protect your stuff.

I think Neoh is a little confused as you can not get home owners insurance unless you own the home.

In our old apartment owned by Boardwalk there was a very specific section in the rental agreement addressing pets. It said specific animals that were/weren't allowed in the building. Ours said fish tanks were ok up to a certain size. I told the manager what size my 85g was and they ok'd it. Not in writing though. Also, we had tenants insurance, not home owners insurance. My wife and I were only dating then.

Bets of luck and it sounds like the lady has already made up her mind if she sold you her return pump.

I do rental property management. It all depends on what your Residential Tenancy Agreement states.