Went apartment hunting today...

[Pembroke_Corgi]

I know how hard it is to find afforadable pet-friendly rentals. Keep looking, I'm sure there is something else out there!!

Have you searched ads for sharing houses? Many of those allow pets. Also, this is just what I've found out in my experience, but private rentals (ie landlord) are a lot better at negotiating. Rental companies have stupid policies (like not allowing you to live there even if you pay all the rent in advance ) that many landlords are willing to negotiate.

When we moved to Denver our place was a pit, we moved out and lived in campgrounds until we found a suitable place. It actually only took us a week, but I found it by calling everywhere. I usually started the conversation by "do you allow pets?" If they said yes, I played us up, we are such good tenants blah blah blah and THEN I would see the place, usually by that time they liked us, THEN I would say how many pets we had (oh, by the way, we have 3 very well behaved dogs and 1 small cat).

I think if you keep looking you might be able to find something else, and even if you have to take the small efficiency, well at least you get to stay with your wonderful kitty cats.

Sorry for such a long winded response.

[Zippy]

That is great you found an apt.like everone said when you are living in the small apt.be the best tenent(sp?)you can be and they could bump you up on the list of the big apt.I know about trying to find apt that take pets it is a nightmare.