This is a familiar subject for me. Up until last year, I rented properties for 7 years and owned herps for 6. I've been through some sticky situations.

The last place I rented before I bought my house allowed "birds, fish, and cats." The lease never addressed reptiles, only that no dogs were allowed.

Rather than risk getting kicked out on a technicality, I devised a method of hiding my 40+ herps whenever management had to enter the apt. to do something, which was somewhat frequent and always annoying.

If you have one snake, you could pull this off fairly simple. For people like me, it was incredibly difficult. My advice to you is find somewhere that is small pet-friendly, move in, and stay super-discreet.

I wish I still had the "before" and "after" pics of the herp room. It was pretty cool when we went into stealth mode.

As long as your one snake isn't a 16-foot Burm, you'll be fine.