I did check everywhere, underneath and behind every appliance, I shined a light in every nook and cranny in the house. I feel that if he had gotten out on his own I would have found him. Unfortunately due to the circumstances of the move I am no longer welcome on the property and technically am no longer living there. I can't do any further searches for him myself. I thought about the flor/corn startch idea even though the entire place is carpeted, but it wouldn't have done anything anyway because the former roommate is now habitating the place and has had no respect for my property in the past. She's terrified of snakes, and when I finished moving out the tanks and the corn snake she looked entirely too comfortable for someone with a snake phobia who knows there's a loose snake in the house.

I am immensely angry and upset. Even if the snake turned up now, I seriously doubt I would be contacted to retrieve it. They would either kill him or give him away. I cried pretty hard when I get settled into the shelter for the night yesterday. I think this especially hurts because I rescued him in the first place and just got him up to par. I was just about ready to spend $200 on my next feeding bill, getting him several sizes of frozen rats to move him up as he gained weight. I had probed him as well and was 90% sure he was a female, and was proud to think that one day that ball python would produce clutches for me. Now all of that is gone, and there is very little I can do except bring up the fact that she probably killed my snake in small claims court.

I'm also reearching ways to deal with the landlord. That's another long and painful story but the end result is, my snake is missing and probably dead and I'm facing possibly being forced to pay my awful ex-landlord for November's rent while I'm living in a homeless shelter, as well as loosing the part of the pet deposit I had already paid.