We’ve been looking at Zillow, Trulia rentals, Realtor.com, and Apartments.com apps for the last couple of months. It seems like the info on many of the meta real estate sites is likely to be out of date.
Our biggest problem:
Seymour is about 75 pounds. He’s not a “dangerous” dog by any reasonable definition, but he’s definitely *not* a small dog. Most of the rentals we’ve looked at the “accept” dogs have a limit of 20 lbs. I’m pretty sure I’ve never had an adult dog that was under that limit.
One slightly more fruitful way to independent searching for houses for rent was to take note of the property management company renting a house that came close and then checking their site. Still, we had maybe one house that didn’t explicitly rule us out.
Frustrated, I finally got desperate and found the Facebook page of a local dog rescue and asked for suggestions. Dog rescue people are amazing resources for helping you figure out how to find places that will allow your fur beasts.
As you can see, I even found someone with a house for rent in the area. I reached out to the realtor in the responses and not only found out about several places available that would take our boys on, but several in the school district that we were targeting, and 2 well under our budget.
Maybe I jumped the gun a bit on looking, but it was pretty frustrating trying to locate a place, and I was losing confidence that we’d find a place within a reasonable amount of time.
I’ll post an update once we get down there on perception vs. reality, but finding a place for our pets is looking way more promising than it did a few weeks ago.