I'm in a similar predicament. My rents pretty cheap and my landlord just lowered it by $20 since it's almost time for me to resign. I was really wanting to move because the place is going down hill. We got mice this winter that they've done absolutely nothing about, took 3 weeks just to send the exterminator. I found some holes 1 month ago and they still haven't come to patch them up (don't think they're ever going to so I did it myself). I also had a leaky faucet and it took them a month to come fix that. They just don't care anymore.

But at the same time, rent is so high anywhere else I'd have to pay at least $200 more a month just to live anywhere decent and even somewhere NOT decent I'd be paying at least $100. I'm trying to save and pay off debt so that's not going to work.

My only other option is that I can live with my mother and I'm not sure I want to do that either. So I guess I'm stuck here.