Good Luck Finding A Place To Rent If You Own A Pet — Especially On Maui…The No. 1 reason dogs and cats are surrendered to the Maui Humane Society is a lack of pet-friendly housing.
Roberta Lespinasse always paid rent on time for her cottage in Haiku, where she lived since 2017 with her dog, Nohea. But on an early January morning, there was a knock on the door.
Her landlord had come to tell her he wanted to sell the house. As he spoke, her heart raced. Ever since she moved to Maui from Brazil 30 years ago, she knew how hard it could be to find an affordable rental home. And she’d heard the horror stories about how bad things became after a wave of digital nomads with mainland salaries descended on Maui during the pandemic, driving prices way up.
“I’m going to go homeless,” she thought.
