studio or upstairs apartment close to Curtis Rd and I-184 (Boise: to rent, home)

[j_k_k]

It is beginning to look like Boise for us. The first step will be finding my wife a good little place to live, ideally very convenient to her new job, which will be near the place in the title.

Since she will be alone for most of the first year while she assesses whether she likes the job, and whether she is highly likely to get through her probationary period, first order of business is housing. Obviously, while maintaining two residences, we don't want to spend a ton of money, but we'll spend what we must in order to avoid a bad living situation. I've never gotten off the freeway at Boise except maybe to fuel up on the way east, so I don't have the faintest idea what's where. We will obviously mount an exploration expedition sooner rather than later, but in the meantime, I'd like to know if there's a decent chance of finding her an affordable little place fairly close to her work.

Issue: she has two dogs, one being very small, and one 85-pound older Lab. It may be that the Lab has to stay with me, which is not ideal (she is very fond of him), but I understand that bigger dogs can be dealbreakers. In our ideal world, we would find a nice elderly lady who lives alone in her home, likes dogs, needs to rent out her upstairs in order to help make ends meet, and much prefers a mature female boarder who is a dead certain lock to pay her rent, respect the property, be responsible for her animals, refrain from blasting gangsta rap or death metal at late hours, and not bring weirdos around. In the next best world, we'd find a reasonably priced studio or one-bedroom that would accept one or ideally both dogs, close enough to work that she can go home at lunch and see to them.

Are my ideal and best worlds simply fantasies, or should we set our sights that high?