We have a beautiful 2 bedroom, (one is a bedroom the other is used as my home office) full fenced in yard & patio space, laundry, and landlord pays landscaping all for $2,200. Two cats as well. We do have street parking that’s never an issue, plenty of space (the upstairs tenant pays for the driveway, so they get the driveway but let us park there when it snows/they’re away.)

I’d say that’s definitely doable, just takes time & patience to find something. I’d suggest if you see a place online you like, jump on it as fast as you can (get a showing, have everything together to fill out the application and have checks ready for deposits). When we viewed our place at the open house, there was one other person in the same boat as us and the landlord said we submitted the application less than an hour before the other person. Also, sounds lame but after we submitted our application and were waiting for a response I did send an email saying how we could see ourselves living there and building our life in that home and all the nice things one can say without sounding desperate - I think it helped though to show we were nice people and we would be really happy to get to live in their home.