Wednesday, March 24, 2004
La chasse a l'appartement!
Bill is looking for a place to live.
D. and I have been actively trying to help someone find an apartment over the past week. This person's requirements were pretty limiting, or so we thought: $500 for a 3 and a 1/2, with heat and hot water included, plus fridge and stove obviously.
With everything we've been hearing about the rental market lately, we thought it would be totally impossible to find this outside of crack-ho-central-type neighbourhoods.
But we found something! It's definitely not the Taj Mahal, as they say, but it's clean and freshly painted with a decent bathroom and I know the street, which isn't bad. There are a lot of immigrant families in this particular building, which I tend to see as a good thing.
And it's exactly $500/month, everything included. And it's NDG (!) right on the 105 bus route, which is useful for this person.
D. and I have always had incredible luck finding places for ourselves, and it looks like our lucky streak didn't end when we found our wonderful house two years ago. (Great price, great location, great, stout little house with no problems, big backyard). Now we need to keep our fingers crossed until our friend signs the lease, which should be this evening. Let's hope there are no horrible hidden defects!
Bill is looking for a place to live.
D. and I have been actively trying to help someone find an apartment over the past week. This person's requirements were pretty limiting, or so we thought: $500 for a 3 and a 1/2, with heat and hot water included, plus fridge and stove obviously.
With everything we've been hearing about the rental market lately, we thought it would be totally impossible to find this outside of crack-ho-central-type neighbourhoods.
But we found something! It's definitely not the Taj Mahal, as they say, but it's clean and freshly painted with a decent bathroom and I know the street, which isn't bad. There are a lot of immigrant families in this particular building, which I tend to see as a good thing.
And it's exactly $500/month, everything included. And it's NDG (!) right on the 105 bus route, which is useful for this person.
D. and I have always had incredible luck finding places for ourselves, and it looks like our lucky streak didn't end when we found our wonderful house two years ago. (Great price, great location, great, stout little house with no problems, big backyard). Now we need to keep our fingers crossed until our friend signs the lease, which should be this evening. Let's hope there are no horrible hidden defects!
# posted by becca : 7:01 AM
