Where are the pet friendly apartments in Canberra?

I thought I’ll bring up this topic once again.

Does anyone know of any 1-2 bedroom apartments available in the city, Braddon, Turner areas that allow for an indoor cat? I am looking to rent from third week of November onwards for 12 months. But, I am struggling to find any apartments where an indoor cat is allowed. Any help would be much appreciated.

I know places like Nishi and Valonia do allow for pets like an indoor cat. But, more often than ever, it is the owners of these apartments that do not allow for an indoor cat.

I can’t believe how tough it is to find a place that allow for a cat in Canberra! 🙁

Hi Ant – not sure why I wrote that in relation to you on this thread, clearly my response dows not match your post in anyway shape or form. Not that its an excuse but I think I may have been responding to another thread and did a very stupid cut and paste job. Clearly from your post you support pets in apartments. Sorry mate I hope you will accept my unreserved apology to you and anyone else confused by my post(would have submitted a response earlier but I’ve been overseas for the past 3 weeks).

To all those looking for pet-friendly appartments – in addition to Valonia, Waterfront is also pet friendly.

Thanks

Gnome said:

RandomGnome said :

ant – you should of course have the freedom to live where ever you feel most comfortable. I would be interested to know, as I am sure others would, some of your reasons for wanting to live in a no-pet apartment complex.

You really need to work on your comprehension skills. Go read my post again. (then you can apologise).

we’re looking to put in a small-ish tank ourselves, but one we can prob’ly take with us if we [sadly] ever have to leave. but i have put in some 36 trees and shrubs.

letting me off a hike in rent in return for some extensive re-vegetation me and me better half are undertaking for his property value rise… and a good location we don’t want to leave, so happy to a) make our home more amenable and a better living environment & b) help the landlord if he helps us…

This is a really good example of renting working well. There’s more to maximising an investment than just increasing the rent at every opportunity. I’d be more than happy to freeze rent for a couple of years if my tenants were going to landscape for me. Hell, I’d even buy (and tax deduct) an inground watering system and rainwater tank if the tenant would install it for free!

taiyaki – I’ve left a post for you on the other blog re your query in the hopes that it will help you and others. Thank you so much for being willing to write in to your member. I do hope we Canberrans take this oppertunity to show some real legislative leadership. Maybe the rest of Australia will follow our example. Mind you, many other countries with lower pet ownerhsip rates have far better policies and attitudes.

ant – you should of course have the freedom to live where ever you feel most comfortable. I would be interested to know, as I am sure others would, some of your reasons for wanting to live in a no-pet apartment complex. As I mentioned in the other post, the proposed ammendments are neither pro nor anti pet but it does try and encourage resonsible pet ownership and give any dissenting views the ability to have their views included before a pet would be allowed in a complex. Many of the objections I’ve heard to date can be rationally dealt with and with an outcome that is beneficial to everyone concerned. However if you are willing and comfortable to do so I would be be egar to hear your perspective.

thanks for spreading the word taiyaki!

I’d live to live in an apartment block that banned kids, pets OK. but I bet there’s laws against banning kids. How can pets be more noisy and destructive than (most) kids?

is that you on that x-inc ad, vb? 😉

i rent and own (well, me n da bank) an investment property, ’cause it is too expensive to buy where i wanna live. a plain life is not necessarily a drab one but; much good entertainment can be had for little outlay.

must say, the best investments are the ones you seem to favour – so good upon you, and you seem to be a rad landlord – mine is also a bit dude-ish, letting me off a hike in rent in return for some extensive re-vegetation me and me better half are undertaking for his property value rise… and a good location we don’t want to leave, so happy to a) make our home more amenable and a better living environment & b) help the landlord if he helps us… we also have a pet, a large one, who does occasion some injury to the place that we rectify (mainly to the aforesaid gardens!) with landlord’s good grace…

now r/e agents are a different kettle altogether…

I deliberately choose properties that are on the expensive side of average for rent (but not top end by any measure), on the basis that there always seem to be people willing to pay for really good location, especially if the rent is comparable to a slightly larger house a bit further out.

It would be fair to say that entering the housing market is harder now than it was ten years ago, but also fair to say that getting in ten years ago was probably the easiest it was in decades, because prices were comparatively low (in Canberra the market went nowhere during the 90s), and yet loans weren’t ridiculously hard to get (like 20+ years ago).

My thought is that if I were younger (say under 25), I would be trying to save using high interest online savings accounts in an attempt to get a deposit together for a 2 or 3 BR property, so that I could rent spare rooms to others to subsidise my mortgage for a few years. As it was Mrs Berlina and I lived very plain lives for 3 years while saving for our first home deposit (we started saving 9 years ago).

VY, I can’t necessarily agree that everyone could afford to buy their own properties (I did note that you were referring specifically to your tenants though). It’s not an easy market for tenants these days that’s for sure!