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
yeah that's definitely what I'm afraid of, especially since we have pets :/
in my area at least they add $50 a month for a pet (and maybe a higher deposit). But it definitely limits the number of options you've got.
also it really depends what kind of pet. lots of places won't rent to you if you have a dog, especially if it's large. landlords care less about cats. if you have a fish or something in a tank/terrarium literally don't even tell them about it they won't care.