Landlords do not have to accommodate emotional support animals that pose a threat to the safety or health of others. If a resident’s ESA has attacked someone, that is certainly grounds to deny that tenant’s ESA accommodation. Tenants do not have to tolerate a neighbor’s emotional support animal that threatens their safety.

You are absolutely allowed to get an ESA letter from a licensed psychiatrist or psychologist. In fact, most ESA letters are NOT from physicians, they are from mental health specialists such as therapists. Please see this link for more info: https://esadoctors.com/who-can-write-an-esa-letter/

As an ESA owner you are allowed to have others take care of your dog.

You can obtain an ESA letter before adopting the ESA, and you can also submit your ESA letter in advance and the landlord may be able to grant you pre-approval for the ESA you plan to adopt.

Forms like that are no longer allowed under HUD’s rules: https://esadoctors.com/hud-housing-rules-emotional-support-animals/

My psychiatrist has written a letter prescribing my need for an ESA. The BOD of the condo where I’m moving to wants an extensive form filled out with redundant info from my doctor plus affidavits that my doctor understands certain data about the condo community — like it’s a golf community, that residents share a laundry facility, that this community is a NO PET COMMUNITY, and so on. Then, the DOCTOR is supposed to have this “absurd” document NOTARIZED! I did not have my doctor complete this affidavit, and do not intend to. Can this jeopardize my getting approval for my ESA? I have complied with all of the other stipulations.