apartment hunting

yeah so we are still apartment hunting...been doing so for about a month. Such a pain in the ass! This has been the most frustrating dissapointing and long apartment searches I have ever had. We've seen several dumps, including one last night that was just horrendous. We want to get a puppy, but it seems like the only apartments where you can have pets are the crappy disgusting ones. We did see a really nice apartment last night too, but its expensive, includes no utilites, can't have pets, and flooded in both the 2004 and 2006 floods. AAAHHHH! It sucks! I guess we'll just never really find what we are looking for until we get a house. I wish we hadn't put our money in a CD now...cuz the rent we'll pay for the place we saw last night is the same as a freikin mortgage.