Apartment Inspection. Help!

Well, I can't condone doing anything against your lease. You might want to try and talk to them about it and legitimize your reptiles. Do they allow other pets? My apartment that I live in now was suspect when I first told them, but once I explained they were in cages and weren't harmless they didn't really care (I also made sure to tell every apartment I looked at up front about my reptiles to make sure I had one that was OK with it).

That being said, in my experience the maintenance people don't care. They're there to fix and maintain things, not be an apartment policy enforcer. I'd just cover them up and try and be there when they come.

The best thing to do would be to start looking for a different apartment and get your animals explicitly written into the lease as being allowed. That way you have no worries come inspection time, and other residents freaking out cannot cause problems for you.

my apartment says "tank pets" so my ball python is fine under that titlement...but the complex was bought out by my university which has a no pets clause...so im trying to find a "tank pet" friendly complex...so far no luck

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Originally Posted by Kaorte

Well, if it is against your lease you probably shouldn't have gotten them in the first place or you should have found a reptile friendly apartment. If they do find the animals they have every right to evict you, and I am sure that having snakes is not worth getting evicted over.

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i beg to differ, i would FULLY rather be evicted than get rid of my snakes, 100%

mind you, i live in BC, ''the heart of 2010'' (yeah, right). and rent here is absolutely RIDICULOUS and it is next to impossible to find a place that will even let you have something as simple as a hamster. most places won't even consider a pet deposit.

but, my animals are securely caged, harmless, and nobody in the apartment (or my landlord) know about them. because if they did, the whole unnecessary snake fear thing would run rampant. so i just keep it quiet and noone's the wiser.

if my landlord DID want to come over though, the ASF's would definitely need to be hid somewhere, preferably at my mom's house :P

our rack system covers up nicely, we just have 2 pirate flags pinned up like curtains. the only other thing i can't hide are my leo's and my 2 55gallon display tanks for my first pair of corns.

meh, you gotta do what you gotta do for your pets!

Like some others have said, It's pretty stupid to move into a place that doesn't allow reptiles. But hey, I'm not you and I don't know the whole situation and I can fully understand you'r want to keep your scaley ones.

Try your best to disguise everything, put a whole bunch of crap all over the covered racks, like a lamp or bla bla. If you have feeders, though you don't have to hide them it might help you out to.

That's why I keep all of my snakes in some nice closets that has been converted into a rack. I can just close the door and people think they contain simple clothes.

so what happened with the inspection??

i have no problems where i am cuz the owners/manager have their own snakes and loves mine. i went and asked before i got her so im good. i go down to pay the rent with her in my hand or on my neck and all the girls there always ask to hold her.

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Originally Posted by katia

i beg to differ, i would FULLY rather be evicted than get rid of my snakes, 100%

mind you, i live in BC, ''the heart of 2010'' (yeah, right). and rent here is absolutely RIDICULOUS and it is next to impossible to find a place that will even let you have something as simple as a hamster. most places won't even consider a pet deposit.

but, my animals are securely caged, harmless, and nobody in the apartment (or my landlord) know about them. because if they did, the whole unnecessary snake fear thing would run rampant. so i just keep it quiet and noone's the wiser.

if my landlord DID want to come over though, the ASF's would definitely need to be hid somewhere, preferably at my mom's house :P

our rack system covers up nicely, we just have 2 pirate flags pinned up like curtains. the only other thing i can't hide are my leo's and my 2 55gallon display tanks for my first pair of corns.

meh, you gotta do what you gotta do for your pets!

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You know being evicted takes a huge bat to your credit score and smashes it into pieces.

I would rather be financially stable and in an apartment that accepts reptiles than sneaking around until I get caught and suffering the consequences for my whole life.

This is why my husband and I are having such a problem finding a house to rent because of how many animals we have. Now, we are not those people that let their animals run around the house and destroy things and poop and pee everywhere. We are very neat and clean, but as soon as someone hears we have ferrets its an immediate no. Its funny, they don't care about snakes and lizards, but ferrets are a problem, haha.

It would be nice if we could just buy a house, but we don't have the money for that just yet. *sigh*

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Originally Posted by Kaorte

You know being evicted takes a huge bat to your credit score and smashes it into pieces.

I would rather be financially stable and in an apartment that accepts reptiles than sneaking around until I get caught and suffering the consequences for my whole life.

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it works a little differently up here in canada :)