They don't scratch wood like cats.They don't pee on floors like cats/dogs.They don't color in crayon all over everything and break stuff like kids.They don't potentially eat neighbor's pets or bite like snakes could.They don't have potential flooding issues like 50 gallon aquariums.And, really, how many potential tenants even have lizards/reptiles?

He is a doctoral fellow doing research on snakes.

We never lost power, our cable was out when the thunder woke us at 4:00AM but back on when I got up at 7:30all cash

I was told that could not be done, so the plumber just snaked the drain.

Someone mentioned snakes.

I personally spent about 20 hours crawling through the attic on hands and knees with trash bags and a shop vac, removing critter pee-soaked insulation, rodent poop, snake skins and a dead squirrel.

Although we did have tenants who had multiple caged snakes and we charged them a pet deposit, but one or two small caged animals is probably OK

They don't believe this list includes birds, fish, snakes, other reptiles, mice/rats, etc..  

OK2 days in to moving in, toilet backs up and overflows, plumber comes, snakes tree roots out, says home warranty wont cover it because its an existing problem.

Last week I get a woman on the phone who won't even tell me what her ESA is (after we determine it is an ESA)  is it a dog, cat , horse, snake?