Any advice is good advice

Hi so disclaimer, this is a wild ride.

My husband and I moved to PA from IN. We don't have any family and no friends due to moving around a lot. We stayed on an old friend's air mattress while apartment hunting. Long story short we ended up in the hotel my husband works at with only a little over a week to find housing.

We found an apartment and got approved. When I spoke with our now landlord, she assured me MULTIPLE times that she was embarrassed but the downstairs neighbor had a mess in the yard but she was moving and thats why. She'd be gone in less than a week. We moved in on July 3rd. There's a door in our hallway that leads downstairs to a door to the neighbors unit. The neighbor had broke into our unit and broke the door. The landlord did not report it. Or fix it. She showed up at my husband's job with a zip lock bag full of random door knob parts.

Our neighbor was in fact not moving. She was a heavy drug addict and a hoarder. The yard filled with more garbage and junk every day. Rotting piles of garbage and buckets of human feces with floating dead wildlife started appearing. In the hot PA sun it smelled horrific. The neighbor screamed at all hours. We dealt with severe rodent and bug infestations. Flies and gnats so bad we couldn't cook or sleep. Mice ran across our bed at night. We got a cat. And then 2 more. No more mice or rats. Less flies.

Landlord said neighbor would be evicted the 20th. Then the 25th. Then the 30th. She was evicted 2 months into our lease. She broke back into her unit the same day. I called the police for the landlord. And that earned me 2 days in a court room to testify against the neighbor. Both court dates were moved after 6 hours of sitting in the court waiting room each. It took another month for the landlord to have to unit cleaned out. The carbon monoxide alarm went off downstairs and my landlord made me go into the unit to identify the source. She told me not to call the police, that shed send someone to shut it off. I called the police. EMTs said there was no leak and shut off the alarm after evaluating me. They also said that unit was a confirmed biohazard. The next day 5 guys and a dump truck showed up and filled it 6 times hauling the neighbors belongings away. To this day she has not hired an exterminator or professional cleaning, despite my requests.

When we got wifi we found that the downstairs neighbor had cut all our connection wires when she broke in. We had to pay $99 out of pocket to have the internet provider repair one and hook up our router.

We got 3 cats to combat the rats and mice. We don't deal with them anymore but we have to keep our trash can outside and sinks spotless to keep ants, gnats and flies at a minimum. Now that it's almost October we tried to turn our heat on. We have cast iron radiators. We cant turn them on. The valves are painted shut. I notified my landlord. She said not to touch them and to use the thermostat. I told her we did. The valves are stuck shut. She said shed have someone call to fix it. That was 4 days ago. She hasn't sent anyone. Hasn't texted. Hasn't called. So I called Altoona code enforcement. Theyre doing an inspection on Friday. Rent is due on the 1st. Inspection is on the 2nd. We were homeless 3 months ago. I have a cancer diagnosis and my first oncology appt in Pittsburgh on the 14th. We have 3 cats now. I don't want to be homeless again. I can't handle losing anything else. The apartment will fail inspection. We cant afford to pay $750 for rent on a barely inhabitable apartment that we're going to have to leave a day later because it'll fail inspection miserably. We cant afford to get another apartment as is, let alone after losing $750.

WHAT DO WE EVEN DO.