My partner and I have been lucky these past couple years to have family members offering us places to live. But now we're trying to get out of the suburbs and move to the city so we have to find our own place to live. I've found places to live before but that was way before COVID and way before I had pets and I really don't want to get completely fucked by a landlord.
Are there any tips for finding a place to live, especially for people with pets? Any good websites/should we just use craiglist/does craiglist suck? What's the biggest percentage of our combined paychecks that should go to rent? What should we do? Please help lol.
We both make a couple dollars more than our local minimum wage but we're still working class if that helps. We'd love to rent a house but I doubt we could afford it
if you dont use FB much that makes it even easier to make an account just to find an apartment and then delete it. Youre definitely missing out on listings if you dont use FB marketplace, and it's mostly because i dont think craigslist has an app for easy posting. there are some listings on Nextdoor too.
maybe we'll check it out then 🤔 I guess I was just wondering if it's better to find some random landlord on the Internet vs some renting company one with an actual website and it seems like you're saying the smaller ones can be good
Craigslist is still good to check too
Watch out for scams on there. Just don't let your money leave your hands until they show you inside and a rental agreement is signed.
its a crapshoot without asking current or previous tenants. ive had apartments in large-ish buildings that were run well and had no issues, and then another time there was roaches everywhere. With a large building you know you can probably live there for a while no matter the prices, smaller landlord could sell the building whenever.