Apartment Inspection. Help!

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

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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and YES i am DEFINITELY with you on that one! in order for me to be able to afford to buy a house, i would literally have to move out of my hometown. the shadiest of places are going for $800,000! 2 bedroom apartments? see for yourself: Squamish Pointe.

and let me tell you, that is a horrible, horrible location. it's right across from one of the scuzziest bars in town. a lotta mischief happens in that area.

Wow! Its actually pretty good around here. I'm just dirt poor. :P A house that I grew up in still belongs to my grandmother. I told her she should sell it to me (its valued at around $180k) but she wants to move into it. My husband had surgery and put it on credit cards (we didn't have insurance) and we didn't start paying on them, they grew and grew. And I also put us further in debt by maxing out my credit card with snakes. So we have a lot of debt to pay off first. One day....one day I will have a house with an entire room (or two!) dedicated to my reptiles. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by katia

it works a little differently up here in canada :)

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Well the OP is not from Canada....

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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.

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we have been renting places out for roughly 20 years and we have never seen any eviction records on a credit report.
ahh i see it would have to be court ordered

Any result yet? How did the inspection go over?

i hope him not responding is any sign that they got the boot! that would be bad for everything involved. my maintenance guy just came through to fix the bath tub and i was layin on the couch and had my girl just chillin in my chest.

This is why I own my own home.. I would freak out if someone tried to tell me I couldnt have my pets. When I was renting I guess I always got lucky to be somewhere where I could get away with having pets.

It should be fairly easy to hide the snakes. They dont make noise and as long as your place is clean no one will notice. Just let us know it goes.

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

I wouldn't worry too much. Your plan sounds good but you could also disguise the rack as something else, like a side table or something. I am probably the worst tenant to walk the earth, haha. I successfully lived in a 2 bedroom townhouse for over a year with my snakes, small rat colony, mice, gerbils, a bird, sugar gliders, a dog, and at one point we had 7 cats. The only animals allowed and that were on the lease were two cats. And the management never knew. Of course, they were not the best townhouses and they rarely did any repairs or inspections. Actually one day I was freaking out because the maintenence man was coming over and my ball python racks were downstairs in the living room. He walked in and asked what were in the tubs. I showed him Juji, my pinstripe, and he immediately struck up conversation about how he has a ball python at home. So I really would not worry too much. But if if they do see them and do decide to go against you, it doesn't matter if she said "Sure you can have them, no problem" because you didn't get it in writing and it would be her words against yours. She would win. If you want to keep them legally there, you'd have to get it in writing.

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Had to LOL when I read this.

Do they hide when you jingle the keys in the door lock? :rofl:

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Originally Posted by bokuza

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.

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Just to let you know I live in Philadelphia Pa, grew up my whole life in the "ghetto " section, i could have gotten an apartment there that wouldnt have cared if I owned a 4ft gator in my bathroom. Instead I moved myself out of there and I wanted something nice. I only moved in with 3 Ball pythons in a rack. Listen they do one inspection a year. If they see anything they wont evict me they will give me 48 hours to get rid of them. So I am taking my chances. I made this post looking for advice on hiding not life advice (i don't mean to be ignorant)

I just moved into my house but a few months ago we lived in an APT. that didnt allow any pets other than cats and dogs under 13lbs. But when they showed up at my place to look around i just left the snakes out in the open in there setups and not a word was ever said. And when moving into this place you are put on a 3-6 month waiting list. so with that being said i dont think you have alot to worry about