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
Use the apartment listing aggregators to sort by new, then call the listing agent directly. If you're lucky you can schedule it to be the first showing to get a leg up on the application process. I've had decent luck with this. I typically bring up the pet thing towards the end because most landleeches will "relent" and ask for like 25-50 a month for pet rent.