Is it legal for a landlord to have a verbal agreement with all tenants in a two family house and break the contract for some of the tenants and not others? In the two family house that I live in (where I have no written lease, only a verbal agreement that we will pay the rent on the first of each month), we also had a verbal agreement that no more pets would enter the house except the ones that already lived there. However, this verbal agreement took place when we agreed to put down a security deposit which was over a month before we moved in. Then, about 2 weeks after we moved in, the landlord allowed the upstairs tenant to keep another dog that she had purchased at the pet store. About a month later, my roommate handed me a stray cat when I was returning from work that night and told me to take it in or the neighbor would kill it. So I did and the very next day, I had my sister take it to her vet where I paid for all of its shots and tests to ensure that the cat had a clean bill of health (which the cat did) and also scheduled the soonest available appointment to have the cat neutered. Then, the next day I made the landlord aware of the situation, and she told me that I could not keep the cat. So I gave her my 30 day notice. Also, the same day that she told me I could not keep the cat, the upstairs tenants also brought in another pet- a turtle. Is that legal?

It's probably not "legal" but favoritism.

What's the point? Two wrongs never make a right.

You were correct to have given your notice and simply move on.

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Yes the can, they own it, and they can have and make separate rules for various tennants if they want. It is their property to do with as they want.
It may not be fair but it is not illegal. ** unless it is done for some protected class, race, sex and so on.

An agreement is an agreement. My contention is a handshake or verbal agreement should still be capable of holding it's own. Courts have commonly recognized the verbal agreement as a contract.

The unfortunate part of that is some sorry #$% will deny any such agreement. They are the sorriest of souls that can't live up to their own agreements!

That holds true no matter verbal or written contractual... If you can't make an agreement with your fellow humans, and honor your own honor, that's a bad day for: LOSERS

You were better of moving to something more suitable!