real estates are not allowed to look in your cupboards ect but wen mine came out i have a bunk bed with study under in and i have hung a blanket off the bunk bed to cover my study as it gives me privacy plus i have alot of paper work and i hate wen i have kids over and they touch everything on my desk. well real estate came over and demanded to see what was under it and said they'd lift the blanket as they 'had to see if the wall was damaged and i might be conceling it' i told her that its would behind it and you can't see through it to see the wall. she still demanded to see it so i whowed her lol.
also most real estates consider snakes as furniture as they are housed inside enclosures, plus they don't damge the house in any way.
maybe just have one reptile in view and see what they say.