I think my new landlord is schizophrenic and I’m running out of money

For background, I (29F) have been really struggling with depression and grief for the last year and a half since my mom passed away. I ended up quitting my job about two months after she passed because my mood swings were unpredictable and I had received a large sum of money from the sale of my late grandparent’s house.

I moved in with my brother and his fiance for three months, and it was incredibly toxic. I ended up going into an in-patient mental hospital and they threw me out and changed the locks. I stayed in an airbnb for two weeks until I found someone who was willing to rent to me while I technically had no income.

I’ll call her Susan. Susan called me very excitedly after I responded to her listing on craigslist, it was a half duplex, 3 bedroom with a front porch and yard for a very reasonable price, so I was excited too. I drove an hour to meet her and tour the apartment, and I loved it, it just needed a good cleaning. I ended up signing the lease the next day and she chatted with me for over an hour.

She’s 67, has leukemia and her husband passed away a few years ago. She has a son that lives a few states away and doesn’t talk to her very often. She seemed to switch topics rapidly but I just figured she was older and lonely and was excited to be talking to someone new, so I didn’t think anything of it.

Cut to a few days later, I moved in the day before and I hired cleaners. (She had been trying to clean the place herself, but her idea of clean and my idea of clean are very different, plus she shouldnt be doing that kind of physical labor) I had told her about it already and she seemed grateful and promised to reimburse me.

The cleaners arrived and she starts screaming at them. ” I TOLD YOU TO NEVER SET FOOT ON MY PROPERTY AGAIN. YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO LEAVE” I came out on the porch and tried to calm her down. I said “Susan, these are the company I hired to come clean” and she turned on me “I TOLD YOU WHAT SHE DID TO ME AND YOU HIRED HER AM I GOING TO HAVE TO EVICT YOU NEXT? I SPENT THE LAST WEEK CLEANING AND YOU HIRE CLEANERS ITS A SLAP IN THE FACE”

just. bonkers. The owner of the cleaning company came to try and reason with her, and eventually she let it go. They cleaned (very rushed because they were clearly uncomfortable) and susan was pleasant with me the next day.

A couple days later, I wake up to a flashlight in my window. Susan is outside with 2 cop cars. By the time I put on pants and came downstairs, they were knocking on my door. The cops asked to come in and speak privately and they said that susan believes I was in her bedroom(!!!). I obviously wasn’t, and they basically said “well, lock your doors and if anything happens call us”, gave me the incident report number and left.

The very next morning I wake up to her POUNDING on my door, screaming at me. I opened it and recorded a full 5 minutes of her screaming at me about conversations that never happened (things like me demanding food and demanding a repairman), she taped an eviction notice written on a doily on my door, and tried to wrestle my phone out of my hands. I called the cops on her. They came and told me to change the locks, she can’t evict me without going to the courts, and told us to keep our distance.

Since she has a key to my apartment, I put a heavy air conditioner in front of the door that night and when I woke up it had been pushed in about a foot, so now I have a chair wedged under the knob.

TLDR: I just moved into an apartment 6 days ago and my landlord is completely senile, cops have been called twice. I have no income but i have about $7k saved up and good credit but most property managers require proof of income. How do i find a safe and clean apartment to move into asap with my limitations? Also, how do I keep myself safe from a neighbor that hallucinates me breaking the law and being mean to her???