Tenant sneaks in pitbull as ESA after signing a lease for a no animal property!

[Wes Glass]

I am a landlord for a couple duplexes. Been doing this for about 10 years. My property management just put in a tenant in side A of one of the duplexes. I have a no animal policy (unless it's service animal which is required by law). Tenant after move in, pulls the ESA with a pitbull puppy. Property management says the ESA is legal (legit). They had dealt with this before. 

So I have a couple questions. 1. What if anything can I do about this? 2. If I am forced to let her and the dog stay, will insurance and umbrella policy allow a banned breed? Will they just cancel my policy? 3. If I ride this out, can I just opt to not renew the lease? 

I have been doing this for a while. I have never run into this situation before, just read about it. I would greatly appreciate any help or referrals!!

[Bill B.]

Luckily I’ve never come up against this problem but I’m beginning to wonder if landlords affected by this repeatedly should switch to all leases being MTM?  Then you aren’t denying their service animal you are simply raising the rent a few hundred dollars/mo after a few months to account for “market conditions”.