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Scenario 25: Cats!

They’re cute to some. They’re cuddly to others. Before we get into why they’re a nightmare for your rental property, let’s talk about what cats DON’T do:

1. Bark.
2. Kill tenant’s guests.
3. Fight on command resulting in profit.
4. Jump through a window and/or a screen.

These facts are pretty obvious. So, let’s get into the great reasons why you should seriously consider banning cats from your units entirely.

Cats:

1. Scratch your woodwork beyond repair.
2. Crawl into spaces where you tenants cannot get to them, thus causing your tenants to do stupid things to try to retrieve them, probably resulting in injury to and/or damage done by tenants.
3. If unchecked, urinate all over your units and cause irreparable damage and unlimited stench.

Cats are most certainly a bad idea. The Money Kings recommend banning them totally, if possible. They’re just not worth the trouble.

The key to remember starts with cat urine in particular. Cat urine is almost impossible to remove from carpet once it’s dried for 2 hours. After cat urine has dried for 24 hours, forget it. You’ll never completely remove it. In fact, that cat urine will mix with your carpet and solidify it like concrete.

Here’s the right way to clean cat piss out of carpet:

1. Get a shop vac.
2. Get a gallon of water.
3. Get some carpet cleaner that you’d use in standard carpet cleaner.
4. Get ready for a lot of noise.
5. Dilute the piss with water and add a little carpet cleaner.
6. Start sucking the piss/water/cleaner solution, and continue to add water while sucking up the piss diluting it over and over again while slurping all the liquid away. The idea is the dilute, suck, dilute, suck and so on till the smell and the urine gone.

It’s pretty simple, if you move in those first two hours after the cat has pissed.

But here’s the REAL scenario when you allow cats in your units:

1. You fix up your place.
2. You spend 5, 6, 7, 8 hundred bucks finishing up your repair work with some new carpet.
3. You show your place to prospects.
4. You get the perfect tenant.
5. You allow a cat to come with the tenant, or you admit the tenant and then 2 days later a cat “appears.”
6. The cat pisses on your new carpet.
7. Your tenant fails to tell you about it, or tries to vacuum it with a dry vac.
8. You show up at the unit a week later and smell the odor.
9. You spend 30 minutes hunting for the piss, because your tenant is acclimated to it and says, “I don’t smell anything.”
10. You spend more time hunting for the piss, because your tenant forgot where the cat did it.
11. You spend even more time hunting for the piss in a feeble attempt to correct the problem.
12. You wind up spending ANOTHER 5, 6, 7, 8 hundred bucks for new carpet when your tenant leaves in 3 months.
13. OR, you decide to get smart and replace your carpet totally with laminate, ceramic or hardwood flooring only to realize that when you’re done with the installation the piss smell remains, because the f*cking cat pissed in a corner and the urine soaked into the wall as well as the old carpet!

Does this whole mess seem intelligent to you? Keep cats off your turf, and save your sanity.

Good luck out there.

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