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Lack of pet-friendly homes to buy or rent By John McGrath The shift towards apartment living coupled with one of the highest pet ownership rates in the world has created a problem in the Australian property market – a lack of pet-friendly homes to buy or rent.  It is standard practice in most strata schemes for body corporates to disallow pets among owners and tenants. This wasn’t a big problem in the past when affordability was less of a strain and pet owners in major cities could afford to buy or rent a house. But today, with more of us living in apartments due to affordability or circumstance (such as living alone or as couples without kids – both growing trends), apartment living is on the rise and things are getting difficult for pet owners. Last year, industry body released a comprehensive report on pet ownership in Australia. It described the rise of higher-density living in major urban areas as “the biggest current threat to pet ownership in Australia – p...

September 13, 2004 Hadley Weinzierl used Craigslist to furnish her Jamaica Plain apartment , and when she bought a Maltese puppy, she sought advice from fellow Craigslisters on a good vet, a cheap dog-walker, and a park where she could let the dog run without a leash. ADVERTISEMENT When Adam Mundt moved from Wisconsin to Boston last year, he used Craigslist to sell his car, and to buy furniture. As a realtor, he regularly lists apartments on the site. Laurie Comer has traded Red Sox , Prince, and ''Lion King" tickets on the site, and her sister used it to reunite a lost kitten with its owner. Four years after Craigslist was launched in Boston, its first tentative step outside of its California base, it has become the city's central bulletin board : a place to post ads for old furniture, free boxes of books, roommates, a quick tryst, a lasting relationship, or a job. (My favorite ad, which appears regularly, is for a male semi- nude housecleaning service : '...