I just want to rent your apartment!

I've been sending applications to an insane number of listings for apartments and homes for rent in my area. Most are out of my budget but the ones I can afford I send messages and applications to on various websites.

I've had ONE get back to me out of tens. It was a real estate agent handling preliminary stuff like tours for the apartment. He was quick and had me in to see the place the next day after I explained that my lease is less than a month out from ending at my current place. He told me he'd get in touch with the LL and get us a meeting ASAP and it's been radio silence since that day... I literally showed up to the tour with a check and everything for deposit because at the time I thought HE was the landlord (I'm a little dumb sometimes)...

Anyway, LET ME GIVE YOU MY MONEY SO YOU AREN'T SITTING ON A USELESS PROPERTY!!! I'm literally about to be homeless because the wealthy owners of all these places have all the time in the world to play games and dawdle.

IDK what to do. I don't have friends or family to fall back on if I can't get a place in the next few weeks. It's just me against the world and sometimes I feel like David without his sling or stones and one hand tied behind my back. I've worked and made a living for myself since I was 19 and shunted into the real world with no support and no plan (that's my fault though). I work 45-50 hours a week and barely get by as it is. The deposit on a new lease is gonna break my meager savings from the last four years where I finally got my shit together anyway and that's only a problem if people let my give them my fuckin' money!

I make too much to apply to low income apartments and too little to afford 99.9% of rental listings so I feel like I'm in a gap/blind spot when it comes to government assistance too. This fuckin' sucks, yall.