Hometeam requires that every animal be registered, whether a pet, ESA, or Service Animal (SA).
Definitions to know before completing this form:
PETS
Pets are cats, dogs, birds, hamsters, etc… Pets require signing a Pet Addendum and paying a pet fee and monthly pet rent. Fish or anything that inhabits a 10-gallon aquarium (or smaller) doesn’t require a registration or pet addendum, e.g. fish, small turtle, etc…
Emotional Support Animal (ESA)
ESAs can be a range of animals: cats, dogs, hamsters, birds, etc.… and they have no specialized training. ESAs are for the mitigation of symptoms arising from an emotional disability. ESAs cannot go anywhere animals are otherwise prohibited other than their owners’ home, and in limited capacities, air travel.
To qualify for an ESA, one must be disabled as defined by the Fair Housing Act (FHA). As ESAs are prescribed for non-obvious disabilities, we’re entitled to medical documentation that a resident has been prescribed an ESA for their disability.
Service Animal (SA)
A Service Animal is a dog (in 99% of situations) that has undergone extensive and specialized training to assist its owner with specific tasks related to its owner's disability or disabilities. An SA can go anywhere their handler goes, even where animals are otherwise prohibited. Statistically, these are very rare. It is a crime under the law to misrepresent a dog as a Service Animal.
Hometeam doesn’t allow dogs that are “in training to become Service Animals" unless otherwise stipulated by law.
SERVICE ANIMALS THAT ASSIST WITH AN OBVIOUS DISABILITY (The blind or partially sighted, for example) DO NOT REQUIRE REGISTRATION.