This is how it works:
There is no central listing place for rentals- you find a neighborhood you want to live in and drive around looking for a 'for rent' sign
Call the number and they may or not call you back that week
OR it was just rented
IF you can see it, there may already have been 'applications' on it, meaning 4 or more other people have paid their fee to apply to rent it and they'll get back to you in a few days or week to let you know if you are worthy of renting it compared to the others.
Oh- and kids- they count against you.
and pets- forget about it.
BUT that said- after 3 days of 10 am to 10 pm of banging our heads on closed brick(stucco) doors.. we have put in an appication on a property that was on the market 5 minutes. so far we are the first application on it. We are hoping that we'll be 'accepted' although I worry that as soon as they hear about our kids, they'll freak out. There was only room on the application for 2 kids. We had write their names in in tiny print below the place for kids.
AND we were accepted on a much smaller house, so, if that fails, we'll have someplace to live. We'll just have to refrain from having more kids. The bonus there is it's a nice neighborhood, probably less pretentious, but.. even the nice guy there wants to increase the security deposit because we have kids.
SO.. picture of the house we hope for- (and yes, we're spending WAAYYY too much on rent for it, but right now we'd trade our 4th born to stop playing this insane housing rental game)
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