Pets in Apartments: Not Everyone Is Happy

When Robert J. Bruss writes (“Apartment Life,” Sept. 21) that a landlord he knows gets an extra $100 a month from tenants with pets, that “his apartment buildings smell but all the tenants who have pets don’t seem to mind and the landlord enjoys the extra rental income,” is he saying that’s OK?

It’s not OK! Tenants who don’t keep litter boxes clean or who allow their pets to urinate or defecate on rugs and floors in apartments and in the public parts of the buildings are tenants from hell.

So too are the owners and managers who permit it.

One more reason why annual inspections of every apartment building in Los Angeles are needed. One more reason why some owners and managers need to lose their jobs.

DAMIANA CHAVEZ

Los Angeles