Trying to find a place to rent != fun

Submitted by David on Tue, 2006-04-04 01:42

Well, I spent Saturday phoning around to try to find a basement suite, and (even for places in the paper that very day) either they had already been rented or I ended up at the tail end of some rather long queue.

Apartment dwellings around here seem to be going for somewhere in the neighborhood of $650+ for a studio or 1 bedroom, and that's even if you can find one (I phoned about 5 or 6 complexes between classes this afternoon and only one place had a single unit available in the $800 range).

Tomorrow comes another round of phoning apartment complexes looking for space, although I'm not feeling overly optomistic. Just wondering if I should be digging around in the shared accomodation listings, given that I've had no luck finding roommates to split the cost thus far.

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David

Tue, 2006-04-04 01:59

Anyone know anything about the legalities of subletting? (given that there's not that much difference in cost between a 1 and 2 bedroom place)

David

Tue, 2006-04-04 02:26

Anyone feel like investing in some Calgarian real-estate? From what I've been hearing prices in a lot of places are up by about 30% from last fall (sounds like a pretty good return on investment to me!)