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After a bit of talk to my therapist a month, I have just made the decision to myself to get some distance between me and my parents. I have been considering sharing a place with some people and doing a room-share situation. Pay rent for a room and common-area usage. I have found one where the landlord already has two tenants, and she posted an add on Craigslist for the last room.I am almost on the verge of freaking out and fogging, so I would like to get a second opinion about the situation and if it is a good idea to take this opportunity.Ok so first of all my criteria for the Room-Share situation is: 1. Be close to where I work.2. Be a decent neighborhood with no bullets flying around. 3. Be relatively cheap. 4. Have tenants + landlord that are not dangerous to be around. I have met the first 3 but the last one I cannot say, or don't have the experience or the consciousness to determine. The first interview with the landlord: She asked if she could pick me up, I said I work here and at this time I get off and we can meet here. I then did not feel comfortable about having someone pick me up without knowing at least a bit about them. After talking a bit with some ppl in the chat here, I had decided to ask the person to meet me near my workplace, at a local IHOP. We met up and I told her that I would feel uncomfortable if I would go in a car with a stranger and she accepted to have a short convo before going to the house. After a little talk, I felt like she was not going to strangle me and throw me inside the dumpster, and went ahead with her. We reached her house and talked a little and met both tenants, one a 26 year old goth looking type girl, and a white gay guy that looked anxious and did not talk to me much besides an introduction. Both of the tenants are nannies, the girl out of home, the guy in home. Alarming things about landlord: -She is a horror fan and has a life size Jason mannequin. -She had abusive alcoholic parents -She is not married and only has boyfriends. -She does not have kids. -She had done some relationship counseling in her past -She had tenants that: had periodic night time manly visitors, were alcoholics. Only specifically 2 tenants. I'm not sure how to proceed, since three of the criteria are met but the last one I am having a hard time deciding or having the foresight to know if it can be dangerous.Any help.