Some landlords are exploitative and will use this as an opportunity to extract more rent or withhold your security deposit from you or straight up evict you if they think they can get more money. One thing though is rents have eased a bit compared to the spring/summer so they probably can't expect to get a lot more for your apartment now - this is to say that the monetary incentive to evict isn't as wild as it was a year ago. Anyway I don't want to argue about whether exploitative applies to all landlords. Just assume I know that the general opinion of redditors is that they are.

OK, beyond that, this is what landlords are going to care about with pets:

- Complaints from other people in the building, etc. This shouldn't be a big deal with a cat (no barking, generally no waste to clean up in common areas) but you never know. If you are thinking of a cat that leaves the apartment this is a bigger deal. Noone wants hairballs or piles of cat vomit in the halls.

- damage to the apartment. The same way all landlords suck all landlords think all tenants are recalcitrant slobs. Which is to say that they then don't take care to make sure that the cat isn't peeing on the rugs or clawing the millwork or whatever. Again, cats much easier than dogs in this manner.

There's a reason most places are more accommodating to cats than dogs. Though I am a dog person myself they require a lot more effort to keep from annoying the neighbors.

I would probably ask. But Strive has a bad rep.