Renting to a tenant with a Bearded Dragon lizard

[Carlos Nunez]

Hi Utah BP Community! The tenants in our SFH are ending their contract early and are marketing our property to find someone to take over their contract. They have a tenant who is interested who has a Bearded Dragon. This is a first time for me. Any of you have tenants with this type of animal? Any good/bad experiences? Anything I should love worried about? Is this something people will charge a pet fee for?

[Gail K.]

My youngest son has a bearded dragon.  Talk about a low maintenance pet!  Frank hibernates for weeks and weeks at a time and you never see him when he does this as he's in his den.  He does need warmth so Matthew has a heat lamp on the top of his cage.  He feeds him greens, dried mealworms and blueberries for treats when he's not hibernating.    In terms of pets for a landlord this one would be one that would be least likely to cause damage.

Gail