Ugh, so sorry TT. Well, you will make a lovely living environment wherever you end up.
For me, my single living idea envisioned a first floor unit where I could walk directly outdoors from my own unit to at least a patio if not a patio and a yard. Realistically, with two dogs, that’s what I would want anyway.
When I bought a condo a few months ago, The concept of negotiating with condo association rules was foreign to me, so I’m glad our friend and real estate agent had lots of experience with it. Like you, my main concern was any dog restrictions. While I’m knew people in the building had dogs, and I saw that some had large-ish dogs, most of those dogs were quite small. I wanted to make that they didn’t have a size restriction on dogs. I didn’t really care about any other rules or regulations because I knew I would abide by them.
Anyway, in my state the law calls for me to make an offer and once it was accepted I had five days to review the condo association rules to approve them for the sale to go through. That was a pain because they didn’t give me the formal document until 12 hours before the actual closing. As it turns out it was all fine because they had “unofficial “rules and regs of the condo association which accurately describes their current pet limitation which is two pets per unit. And that is perfectly fine for me. I will seldom have dogs there but when I do it could be as many as two.
But you were smart to write that into your offer to buy, that is contingent on condo rules allowing two dogs.