Employee Lease Addendum For Emotional Support Animal In Bexar
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Wait until a landlord accepts your application and offers you the place, then tell them you have an ESA and ask if that should be reflected in the lease or not. If they withdraw the offer you have a pretty strong case of housing discrimination (assuming you can prove the animal has ESA bona fides).
How do I get one? In order to get the benefits of an ESA, you will need a “prescription” from a mental health professional. This is basically just a signed letter stating that you have a mental health condition and that your pet helps you deal with it.
In summary, landlords in Texas must navigate the legal framework surrounding emotional support animals carefully. While certain concerns may arise, especially regarding specific breeds or past behaviors, federal law mandates that landlords generally must make reasonable accommodations for emotional support animals.
For a person to legally have an emotional support animal (ESA), the owner must be considered to have a qualifying mental health or psychiatric disability by a licensed mental health professional (e.g., therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist, etc.), which is documented by a properly formatted prescription letter.
To get an ESA, you will need to obtain a legitimate document issued by a licensed professional that can identify a pet as an ESA, called an ESA letter. To obtain an ESA letter, a person has to go through an evaluation process, or screening, with a licensed mental health professional.
Landlords are more than welcome to verify an ESA letter. The letters should come on the professional letterhead of the mental health professional along with their contact information, phone number, and email address. The letter will also include the therapist's license number.
You can simply ask your doctor if they would be willing to provide you with an ESA letter to support your emotional well-being. Be prepared to discuss how an ESA could benefit your mental health and any specific symptoms or conditions you're experiencing.
You will have to contact the office of disability services and provide the required documents from your doctor stating that you can have an ESA and if approved you will have to also provide records from your veterinarian.
A person is not entitled to make demands or inquiries about the qualifications or certifications of a service animal for purposes of admittance to a public facility except to determine the basic type of assistance provided by the service animal to a person with a disability.
For a person to legally have an emotional support animal (ESA), the owner must be considered to have a qualifying mental health or psychiatric disability by a licensed mental health professional (e.g., therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist, etc.), which is documented by a properly formatted prescription letter.
