Accommodation needed?
On a separate page, please let us know if you'd like an 'accommodation’.
Accommodation is a broad and complex area of renting and law.
Some clarification may be needed as the app is processed.
Tenants will need documents from their health care provider that prescribes one of the types, a Service animal or ESA or comfort animal for a specific person that will live here.
Not service animals: Any other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not service animals for the purposes of this definition, since 2011.
Include with the app:
Letter from an accredited health care provider, that you are currently using in the last 12 months.
It should be from a provider who has an ongoing relationship with the patient. Not an animal registry!
A Vet certificate for shots is also needed, for any dog or cat.
Service Animal Defined:
There is no ‘national registry’ for service animals. There are companies that offer a document, that has no standing.
The ADA definition of a service animal was revised in 2011 to mean the following:
Service animal means any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability.
You should have a document for the training.
The work or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to the owners/handler´s actual and documented disability.
You should provide proof of prescription from an accredited healthcare provider for the disability,
including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.
Examples of work or tasks include, but are not limited to, assisting individuals who are blind or have low vision with navigation and other tasks, alerting individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to the presence of people or sounds,
providing non-violent protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, assisting an individual during a seizure, alerting individuals to the presence of allergens, retrieving items such as medicine or the telephone,
providing physical support and assistance with balance and stability to individuals with mobility disabilities, and helping persons with psychiatric and neurological disabilities by preventing or interrupting impulsive or destructive behaviors.
A service dog is individually trained to perform tasks that reduce the disability of his owner.
Training typically takes 18-24 months.
Because of his advanced training, a service dog is considered medical equipment and is permitted to accompany his disabled owner to many places where pets are not permitted.
The crime deterrent effects of an animal´s presence and the provision of emotional support, well-being, comfort, or companionship
DO NOT constitute work or tasks for the purposes of that definition.
[For more information see U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section: Service Animals, July 2015; also see
April 25, 2013 HUD position letter.]
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