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How do you guys deal with strict pet policies in your apartment?

I just got back from apartment hunting. It looks like my friend and I found a townhome we both like. But they only allow ONE tank. Between the both of us, we're going to have 2 cats and 10 leos (6 tanks).
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chickabowwow

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Luckily for me my apartment doesn't have any restrictions on "tanked" pets. It does, however, have a policy that you cannot have cats or dogs unless you owned them before signing the lease.
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MidWest Geckos

MAN, glad I don't have to move till Im 18 oh hold on Im 17 now MAN next year..... I want to get out of my dad's house.

Well, this is kind of a tough call because it depends on the apartment people. In the apartment I have now, they don't allow pets at all, but I keep my tank in my bedroom, and I keep the bedroom door closed during the day when no one is home. I do that because if the apartment people come to show someone our apartment, they're not supposed to open closed bedroom doors. I'm not sure what you would do with 6 tanks...that might be a little tougher. I've found that, where I live, even though we have really "strict" rules about pets, the people showing the apartments just don't care. My upstairs neighbors have a cat, which is impossible to hide, and nothing has ever been said to them about it.

~Demona

I live in a house now for about 7 months, but before we moved in the only thing we were allowed to have were fish and i love animals and sneaking mice in (they caught me) and a kitten (caught me) they allowed me to get a bird (only a small one) then we got my cat sonny then another cat (the landlord screamed at me when he saw me with one of her kittens she had) we got our cat possem. then we got the tortioses, and before we moved i had 3 geckos (sammy died the last night in the apartment) i also had the tanks in my room (it was crowed) but the landlord never knew about them and if he did he never said anything.
we had a lot of pets in there... we were never allowed to have dogs but there were some people he allowed to have dogs... he was really mean and rude...

sorry about the long post but our landlord was reallllllllly scrict about the pet thing but we had like 8 pets and some fish tanks.. umm they freaked out about some frogs and salamanders we had though!

jessica

Leopard Gecko XING

That's a real strict rule. In most apartments or dorms, they allow you to have pets as long as they're not wandering around the room such as dogs or cats. They don't really have limitation for number of cages. Hmm, the apartment you've found is a bit strict on keeping pets.

Tim
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That is the main reason i've not moved from my parents place, even though i'm 26 (almost 27). When i was at university, my young iguana stopped eating. He only ate when i would come home so i snuck him into residence. He didn't fare to well at all and despite a vets help, he passed away. Not long after, one of the cleaning staff just walked into my room one day while i was there, and freaked on me about the tank.

A few months later i moved into my own apartment (basement apartment) and the landloard said i could have a pet. I got my dog, Chip. After school i moved back home and evetually got my geckos. Now with 8 of them and my dog i have little hope of ever finding an apartment of my own.

Currently i'm working toward getting a house. Don't quite have enough money but its a goal I couldn't get an apartment anyways, i have to much stuff hehehe.

I've been told to get rid of my dog so i could move out (not by my family by the way)..........theres NO way, keeping my dog and my geckos

Red
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Chip: 1.0 papillion (small dog)
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Hi

I have a friend who was apartment hunting awhile ago and she ran into that same one tank deal. It is pretty strict.

Hear is my friends solution to her problem, because she really wanted this nice apartment, she got a few of her guy friends together and put her tanks into some furniture boxes and took them right in with the rest of her things. She has never had a problem yet and she doesn't make it common knowledge to others living there at the apartment complex.

Take Care, TLB

I have an apartment too but my boyfriend's father is the landlord so the cages I have are no problem. I'm running out of space though and I've been thinking about getting a 75 or 80 gallon tank for my crested geckos and I was going to buy plexiglas dividers. You might be able to buy or build a large cage and put "dividers" between them so technically you would only have one cage. It's just a thought if you really like that place.
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