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[listersgirl]

Evil Apartment Hunt update!

Places called: 5 15
No answer: 15
Already taken and therefore now I really want them: 3
Would require a second job: 2
Would merely require a raise and are ideally situated and I'm contemplating selling my hair: 1
Have no living room and are therefore useless: 1
Appointments made to look yesterday: 2
Apartments that were much, much farther off the subway line than originally thought: 1
Appointments that I kept: 1
Appointments other people involved (namely supers) did not keep: 1
Actually looked at: 0
New appointments for tonight: 1 1/2

The rental market is definitely winning so far.

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Despite having read 133 books last year, only two of those were while I was home for Christmas, and one of those was very small. I also didn't watch any TV (other than the bad New VI countdown on New Year's) or any DVDs, and I only went to one movie.

This begs the question, what the hell did I do with my time?

Oh, that's right, I played games.

Namely, Apples to Apples, Outrage, Ex Libris, Trivial Pursuit 90s Edition, Puerto Rico, Captain Park's Imaginary Polar Expedition, Careers, darts and ping-pong (the last two at which I was soundly smacked down by sanity_clause).

*geek bliss*

Comments

[zosiablue.livejournal.com]

Ooo, you're making me nervous. I'm going to have to start looking for apartments in March or so, and I'm dreading exactly what you're going through right now. Good luck!

[listersgirl]

Thanks! When I'm done with the good apartment hunting vibes, I will send them your way. :)

Ping-pong

[sanity-clause.livejournal.com]

Obviously, now I have to move out to Markham to get a house big enough to install a full rec-room with ping-pong, pool, darts and foosball.. 'Cause damn that was fun. :)

Re: Ping-pong

[listersgirl]

Maybe you could just rent the apartment below yours and turn it into a rec room and bar.

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

I assume you've already looked at craigslist, but what about these? You said $850 was your ceiling, right? Or was it $750? The 1 bdrm in our building just got rented, but it was $1000, so... boo.

http://toronto.craigslist.org/apa/54621002.html

http://toronto.craigslist.org/apa/54620686.html

http://toronto.craigslist.org/apa/54530724.html
(if you lived in that one, we'd be neighbours, you know!)

Also have you looked at www.viewit.ca? I haven't seen any signs in my hood yet, but they do pop up from time to time. (I live at College/Ossington.)

[listersgirl]

I looked at viewit, but I totally forgot about craigslist. Durr. Thanks.

[anglaisepaon.livejournal.com]

That's a nice, large kitchen on the middle one. Be fun to cook for people.

This might seem dumb, but are there no apartment complexes, rather than individual buildings, where you are?

[listersgirl]

There are some, I suppose. Most of them are enormous and do not seem like the most desirable places to live.

It seems like more often around here one propery management company owns lots of apartment buildings all scattered across the city, so you can look at their website and see a bunch of buildings at once. But those are usually too expensive for me. :)

[offscreen.livejournal.com]

Trivial Pursuit 90s Edition is awesome. Except for the fact that my friends and I suck at the real news and kick ass at the entertainment trivia. Although, really, that's more of a problem with us than with the game.

[listersgirl]

What I liked was the randomness of the categories (and the return to really trivial information) - it made it a bit easier, because there was more chance that the questions would be something I know.

Plus, less questions about American presidents and senators, which is always a joy killer. :P

[gmajor.livejournal.com]

How critical is the apartment need right now? I think Pauliatchy has a spare room - and a fully equipped entertainment centre..of course this is up to him, as It's not my place, but if you were looking for something temporary until you find a perfect place of your own...
I'd offer you our spare room as a stop gap measure, if we actually had a "spare" room.

[listersgirl]

I'm probably fine - I need a place for Feb. 1st, so I have a couple of weeks still. And it's not finding a place to stay, but just that I have too much stuff, and it would be a pain to have to move it twice, or put it into storage.

I'm sure it'll all work out. :)