Today a landlord raised a local renter’s pet rent after discovering he had not disclosed keeping an adorable nest of pet wasps on the property.
“Thought you were being slick hiding them here in the back under one of the eaves next to the shed? Can’t blame you for trying but we had a deal in the lease: You can have pets, but it’s $50 extra dollars a month for each one,” said landlord Lionel Glimmer after an unannounced property check-in. “You’ve already told me about your cat Sally and now you just need to add onto the lease however many wasps are in that nest—at least 20 by my last count. So multiply that by $50, that’s all. I’m gonna need you to also list their species and weights.”
The renter, Greg Larson, said he tried to explain he actually needed the nest removed but was told again that wasps put so much wear and tear on a building it’ll probably need a whole new roof, so Larson would need to pay up.
“He just wouldn’t buy it and threatened to make me pay back-pet rent if I kept going on,” Larson said, hiding inside away from the nest. “He even wants those ‘little buggers’’ names. Where’s a murder hornet nest when you need one?”
At press time, Larson was asking Glimmer if he wanted to get an accurate wasp headcount for the monthly rent while he pets them with their favorite broom stick.
