the apartment hunt

finding an apartment isnt looking good .. you see, i was told that finding an apartment is really hard and thats why my friend suggested that i should take over her apartment since she's leaving it.. and we agreed to that .. but she's moving out on august so im supposed to be looking for a furnished short term apartment untill august .. and what i found out that SHORT TERM APARTMENTS ARE NOT COMMON HERE .. most of the leases are for 1 yr minimum .. i could only find one apartment and it sucked .. so plan B is to ltry to find THE APARTMENT .. as in forget about my friend's and try to find a new one .. so today we went to see a couple of them .. we found one right infront of my friend;s building , so thats gREAT LOCATION, its one block away from work .. it has restuarants and grocery stores downstairs .. actually its a very lively place .. the apartment looked good .. not perfect but its good.. but then we faced one problem .. now you see.. my friend's lease ends in april and she was supposed to be kicked out by april but she told the land lord that a friend is coming ( aka me ) to take over the apartment on august, thats why he agreed to extend her 4 more months and they never do that , u either have it for 1yr or ur out .. and they agreed on that verbally. now since i couldnt find any good furnished ones, im stuck gettin me a 1yr unfurnished one so i cant take over my friends apartment . she's afrad that thy will kick her out .. coz the only reason they made her stay is because she's bringing some one in .. so now i dont know what to do .. i dont wanna get her kicked .. hal bent 9eg 9eg ma qe9art m3ay and i cant screw her like that .. dad is insisting to get an unfurnished NOW and not in august coz he wanna make sure that im settled in and everything is okay .. so i really dont know what to do :(