Needing water in Hell, or a house to rent!

Let me explain my living situation for the few that don't know. My roommate and I are both Realtors. We both have at least one other job that brings in steady income and keeps the bills paid and my roommate also runs her own property management company. She had her parents home listed for almost 2 years and it never sold so when her parents bought a new home we moved into her parents home and furnished it very well for the purpose of staging it and leaving it on the market. Well I guess we did an excellent job because we moved into the home in December, put it back on the market in January, and got an almost full price offer on it by the end of February! The catch is, we have to be out by the first week of March. So we have been packing like worker ants and trying to find another home to move to, but some of the criteria these people have been telling us makes you want to laugh in their face. Now I see why so many people just go to an apartment. The only reason we haven't taken that avenue (yet) is because we would each have to have a storage room for our things and that can get really expensive. We would just like to have the extra room for our furniture and possibly an office. Ok, so one company told us that every adult in the home must maintain a 580 credit score. Which is a joke because in my opinion, if everyone in the home had a 580 we'd be buying not renting... Another company told us... (oh, this one is hilarious) that each adult in the home must make a monthly income that is 3 times the rental amount. Oh ok, so I guess we both have to make at least 3,300 a month just to share a 3 bedroom home. But what if we get a third roommate to help us with a third of the rent... I guess it doesn't matter if the first two both make 3,300 a month or not because if the third one doesn't we don't qualify anyway... Which is genius! The last and final idea we all had was to take a look at this older home that just had a for rent sign in the yard not a company name with it. It was only 790 to rent and it was 3bdr/1.5ba with new carpet throughout... It was extremely spacious, plenty of storage, and a great backyard! And as of this morning he left me a voicemail to let us know that he chose to rent to a family that put their application in before ours and that it really wasn't that their applications checked out better it was simply that they had theirs in first and that we only had a 3 month rental history in the house we were moving from... Um, did he miss the part about it being so clean and staged at all times that it sold immediately! It's down to the wire and we have to be moving VERY soon and as of this morning we're back to square one... So we are 2 very independant money making adults that can afford a 3 or 4 bedroom home up to about 1200. We could even possibly have a third roommate. We would like to stay around Riverdale/Hacks Cross/ Shelby area or a little north of that... So please let us know or email me immediately at brittanyharrisrealestate@yahoo.com with the address so I can google search it to see what the area around it looks like. (We're two women you know, we would like to feel somewhat safe!)