Housing
Hey everyone!
Just on here to maybe get some advice from strangers because I simply don’t know what to do.
My mother, grandmother, and I have to move by the end of the month, May 31st. And there doesn’t seem to be any rentals in Peoria at the moment for us to get into! We’ve been looking since April and we just haven’t been fast enough to the draw for any houses.
And before people come and blame us, let me explain to you what we’ve been dealing with. A house we were slotted to go see was already given to another person BEFORE OUR TOUR. Another place we liked was given away before it was even open to schedule a tour! So now we aren’t doing tours anymore.
Now every house is either controlled by American Ave (which we will try and apply to but the previous two houses were through them, so we aren’t hopeful), in the “bad” areas of town (which we technically live in now and haven’t had much issue), cost WAY above our available cost in rent (around $1300, no more than $1400), don’t accept both cats and dogs (crazy), or literally should be condemned.
What do we do? Even apartments aren’t going to work since most three bedrooms are above our rent cap and a two bedroom will be too much for my mom and grandma to afford without me.
We’ve looked in Pekin and they are all past our move in date. We’ve looked in West Peoria and again, all of the houses look terrible! Like boarded up windows terrible! Many apartments don’t have availability until June, past our move in date. We can’t apply to several houses, pay hundreds of dollars in application fees for nothing. There’s nothing we can afford outside of Peoria either, like in Morton or Washington or Dunlap. I mean, go look at Zillow right now, put three bedrooms and cats and small dogs, and there’s literally forty options, half of them already unavailable and they haven’t taken the listing down.
Please, if you were in our position, what would you do? Shell out even more money? Lie about the animals?
Please be respectful, I have never EVER seen a housing market this bad, and we have no idea what to do except continue trying. But with only two weeks, I’m unsure if this is going to work out.