Having pets is great. They bring much joy into out lives, and many New Zealanders regard them as part of the family. However renting homes in New Zealand (or anywhere for that matter) can be very tough due to the standard "No Pets Allowed" policy, that is understandably the average landlords or rental property managers first reaction, when wanting to lease out their property in a pragmatic and sensible manner. But consider the following:
 

Why renting to tenants with pets is a good thing to do:

• Tenants know all too well how difficult it is to find homes already. We dont want to mess up any opportunity we have to put a roof over our families heads. We do care about your property too.
• Most pet owners attain a greater sense of responsibility when choosing to care for another.
• Being kind to animals, and those who have chosen to help our animal friends, deserve a pat on the back- again, this wont come at a cost to you.
• Easy to use installer reduces installation time.
• Keeps property listings updated -- no special skills required to add, delete, or modify listings.
• Built-in photo management -- upload photos via a web browser. If photos are not uploaded for a property listing, a default photo not available image will be automatically displayed.
• Automatically creates thumbnails -- smaller versions of your photos are automatically created using the industry standard GD Graphics Library.
• Optional Search Engine Optimized (SEO) page links, and optimization features.
• Flexible database abstraction -- compatible with mySQL, postgres, MS SQL, and Oracle via. the ADODB lite database library.
• Secure -- no one but the site Administrator or delegated Agents can modify or add listings.
• Showcase specific properties -- built-in featured listing management allows custom placement and arrangement of  special properties.
• Flexible search -- Browse properties according to a definable criteria.
• Configurable search forms and fields -- All search forms and fields included in Open-Realty® are completely definable to meet any needs.
• Template system -- Designers can produce a sophisticated functional site template without any knowledge of PHP.
• Integrated add-on system framework for application developers allows for extending or altering Open-Realty®'s capabilities without altering its source code, making upgrades to newer versions a snap.
• Powerful and professional commercial add-ons available.
• Established Community support forums.
• Many, many, many more features.

Open-Realty® utilizes a standards compliant XHTML template system, designing a new template from scratch or incorporating the look of an existing web site is greatly simplified.