The problem is that I have already signed the lease so I can't back out now. I got in a bad situation earlier this year where all of the apartments/houses around camping upwere filling up, and I didn't have any plans for the fall so I was freaking out and at the last minute someone asked me if I wanted to live with them there so kind of rushed into this situation because I didn't want to end up with nowhere to live.

(When I say I rushed into it, I mean.. I still haven't even seen the room I'll be living in, and when I signed the lease I hadn't even been to the actual house, only seen pictures.)

At that point the pets thing didn't even cross my mind... but I guess it's my fault for assuming that the lizard would be okay, because all of the rentals I've been in before that didn't allow pets have allowed fish and caged animals etc.

Honestly if the college near my house offered my major I'd just transfer so I could live at home and have all the pets I want, sadly that's not the case.

At least when I'm out of college I can be more selective about where I live and pick somewhere that suits my lifestyle better.