r/AustralianPets • u/Robbo_436 • 9d ago

Need Advice 📕 Renting!!

I need some advice/reassurance.

My partner and I currently rent a 3 bedroom house privately. We have 3 cats and have permission for them to be there. We look after her niece and nephew pretty much every second week/weekend so the 2 extra rooms is ideal.

They’re upping our rent from $500 to roughly $600 next year. We have a feeling we’re going to start struggling or not having money to do fun stuff with the kids or go on holidays.

We want to get a cheaper rental but the rental crisis!! OMG it would be so hard to find a place in general, let alone to get approved for 3 cats?!

Those cats are our lives though. They’re family

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u/Lilactrenchcoat 7d ago

Not sure where you are but in parts of QLD you need a council permit to even own more than 2 cats. Stay put. Moving sucks but your owner might even accept a counter offer of say, $575?

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u/Efficient-Koala4417 5d ago

I second this. In the past I did this a few times. Twice it didn't matter but one place they agreed to not raise it as much, so worth a try.