Apartment-hunting help?

[sigelphoenix]

Seattle-area folks:

ratzeo and I are in search of a place to live come September. I've been searching for about a month now, mostly using craiglist and Rent.com, with no luck, and I'm approaching the hair-tearing frustration stage ... If anyone has advice about where to look or who to contact, it would be much appreciated.

If it helps, here's what we're looking for: a 2-bedroom apartment or house of reasonable rent (say, $1000ish, depending on the place), generally in the area bordered by Fremont-Green Lake-Wedgwood-Laurelhurst-Wallingford. I'd like it to be a place that allows cats, because I want to get one sometime after the move.

If you can help me find a place, I'll love you forever. (Barring that, if you have any recommendations of where to get boxes or hire movers, that would be great.)

Thanks!

x-posted to LJ

Comments

[mahokiwi.insanejournal.com]

hmmm, yeah, sounds like you're running into a lot of the same issues we were, before we decided to just stay here :\ the problem I've found with craigslist is that they always seem to want people in now now now, and who looks that last-minute?

I thought you guys were going to move in with your sister?

[sigelphoenix.insanejournal.com]

I, uh, will take comfort in the fact that we are not alone in our frustrations. :P

Right! I keep seeing things that are available now or for August 1, and people I've asked are reluctant or unwilling to talk to someone who wants to move in later. Why am I being punished for planning ahead. T_T

Yeah, we were going to just have Sean move in with me and my sister, but sort of last-minute decided to get our own place because I want to get a cat sooner than later, and our current house doesn't allow pets.