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
Look for "for rent" signs in the neighborhood you want to live in. Small-time landlords are generally better than soulless property management firms and new cheaply constructed 5-over-1s.
100% this. best landlord i ever had was some old guy who owned the place because he used to live in it, and he just had a little sign out front. no listings anywhere else. very reasonable price, never raised it, fixed issues fast.