i've been looking for a place lately. i can only afford 570 for rent. so alone i can get a crappy one bedroom in some sketchy building. with a friend i could afford a decent two bedroom. the thing is, my friends aren't that reliable. i don't really want to be in that situation with one of my friends. i've been looking really hard though, and i found out that when people rent out parts of their house it's way cheaper. not only that but a lot of times it ends up having more space, and you aren't in a building with tons of people. today i had two to look at. one was an apartment in their house with a separate entrance. the house was really nice, nice neighborhood, it was like, 470 a month. Someone else went to look at it right before me. I get there to look at it, i'm told the last people who came to look just spoke for it and put down first and last months rent already. the second one i'm suppose to go to is a little rough (from the outside). the neighborhood looks sketchy, the neighbors yards are dirty, but i'm going to try because i can't exactly be picky. this one is 550 a month. Anyways, i wait and the land lord never shows up. i call from my friends cell phone and he says he is having trouble with the tenant and is not able to get in. shouldn't he have looked into this yesterday, when he made the appointment with me for today. and he could have at least showed up to let me know what was going on... because i stood there and waited in the horrible heat with rowan. anyways... i'm just disappointed. i want to get into my own place really badly, and it seems like it's never going to happen. each time i get my hopes up something like this happens.