Can You Really Evict Over a Dog?

Here's what most landlords get wrong.

Can you evict over a dog?

Short answer: yes.
Long answer: it depends how you set things up.

If your lease clearly says “no pets”…
…and if you enforce that lease…
…and if the tenant violates it by sneaking in Fluffy…

Then yeah. You can move forward with eviction.

But here’s what most landlords mess up:

They ignore it.
They say, “It’s just a little dog.”
They hope …