Looking for an apartment

[Ntyvirus]

Im looking for an apartment in the UCF Orlando area but every "pet friedly" place ive been to craps their pants when i mention I have snakes. Does anybody know of any places that are ok with reptiles?

 

[BobOblak]

When I lived in apartments I built cabinets around all of my large cages, and bought commercial cabinets that fit my smaller cages, and locked the doors any time I left the apartment. I also unplugged all electrical cords and placed them inside the cabinet. My large cabinets looked professional and I put nice panelling over any bare wood.
This was before the days of all of the nice large rubbermaid storage cabinets that are now commercially available.
I am not advising anyone to violate any laws or lease terms. I am merely reporting that I never had any problems after 30 years of apartment living in at least a six different apartment buildings, with at least 50 different medium-sized snakes, lizards, and tortoises. I also always lived in places that allowed dogs and cats, and also owned a dog and cat at the time. Anytime a landlord needed to come in, I always insisted that I be warned in advance so I can lock my dog and cat in the spare (reptile) room, since they may not be freindly to strangers. If one does not desire a dog, the same excuse can be used for any other allowed pet that can bite- ferret, parrot etc.

 

[bakew13]

I currently live in an apartment that doesn't allow reptiles. Before we moved in, we asked several people if snakes were allowed. No one could give me a definite answer and never called me back. (it's a very large building in downtown chicago, most of the staff have no idea whats going on.) Finally upon signing the lease I read somewhere in fine print no reptiles were allowed. Of course I brought them anyways. Haven't had any problems because they always give 24 hour notice when entering my apartment. When they do my 4 foot by 2 foot repti-racks cage gets a sheet thrown over the top and a laptop put on top to make it look like a desk. But I would never do this without a back up plan in case I do get caught. My sister is a herpetologist that lives 2 hours away, that would be more than willing to take my snakes if I needed her to. Not saying you should try to hide them, I wish I could have found a building where I didn't have too but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

 

[Ntyvirus]

I'm thinking of modifying a small bookcase type thing into like a split level type terrarium so the cages wouldn't stand out so much. I just find it hard to believe that for a nominal fee i could have a dog that barks and craps everywhere but I cant have a snake that stays in a locking tank all day.