Please understand I am not putting myself on a pedestal just discussing the multiple issues at hand. I don't have a dog in the fight but this is an interesting topic
I'm glad you understand that cultivation is a privilege and not a right. I wish more tenants shared the sentiment.
I just like to debate stuff, no pedestals:)
Legally, how is it different than having a dog? You get caught, at best, you get the option of either getting rid of the dog and staying or taking the dog and leaving. Worst case they say you need to leave at the end of the month or whatever. This is of course assuming you have a little tent with the legal number of rec plants. Within reason, landlords can establish whatever rules they want, the most they can do is evict or perhaps pursue legal damages if you really destroy the place. Never even paid my rent late, so no clue if getting evicted has repercussions I am not aware of.
Grow friendly rentals seem to charge a hefty premium, I guess that could be compared to the additional security deposit and increase in rent you get for having a pet. I actually did take a look at a couple, man I got the feeling I was getting set up to get robbed or the rent they were asking was so ridiculous it just didn't make sense.
I have seen both sides of the fence and do concur that renters suck and don't take care of the place in general. It would be fantastic if a happy medium could be found, but there really doesn't seem to be one. Rules are rules, while your dog might be great, the next guy might have one that eats carpet and barks all night, outside of private owners, it would not be possible to evaluate on a case by case basis.
We are going way off topic from the issues that are hitting that pretty mountain town, would love to keep going but we should prolly IM for that:) I was scoping out housing options and looked in the nederland area and cracked up at some of the obvious marketing towards growers. While the market seems super inflated overall, there still seemed to be some reasonably priced places up in the hills. I wonder what the necessary mix is for these haven towns to spring up, they are glorious until everyone finds out about them:) There was a town near where I went to college that was similar, just an old hippy town that was a wonderful beautiful place, but both my college town and that town kind of went to shit and the people that came because it was amazing ruined them both.