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Home Hunting
Jul. 9th, 2022 06:43 pmOur lease is ending on the last day of August and we're looking for a new place. We can definitely do at least as well for less.
We're not really using our second bedroom other than for Miriam to lecture and do research interviews in, so I suggested finding a large 1 bedroom with nice features instead and setting up a desk and backdrop for video in the bedroom.
However, when I looked at 1 bedroom options, most of them were not big enough and with nice enough features to justify the cost, which seemed surprisingly high to me. I've been asking myself how much extra I would pay for simply having a non-shared entrance so I don't have to put the damned mask on every time I have to take the dog out. If we could have found a 1 bedroom with a large bedroom and some combination of private entrance, in-unit washer/dryer, and area that doesn't suck (basically anywhere outside of north central it seems), we'd consider it. But we could not find such a place.
We have viewings of a few places booked for the 19th. There's two units in duplexes (1 southeast of Broder's Annex and one in Harbor Landing for local folks) and a house with a backyard (Broder's Annex, I think?). We also have a spreadsheet with a bunch of other options and will be scheduling more viewings. Our current lease converts to month to month after August, so we could stay another month or two if necessary, though I'd like to move somewhere cheaper since the rent is going up significantly at that point.
Regina is so small that location relative to other things isn't that big a deal. It would be really nice to be in what passes for the queer part of town, but that doesn't seem likely based on listings.
We've learned, looking at reviews, that the company that has the units with the lowest prices for comparable features (Avenue Living) seems to be completely awful, so we've ruled them out. (Lots of bedbug complaints, among other things. No more bedbugs. Never ever ever again.) It's annoying to keep opening up the occasional listing that seems like a great deal and finding out it's one of theirs.
We're not really using our second bedroom other than for Miriam to lecture and do research interviews in, so I suggested finding a large 1 bedroom with nice features instead and setting up a desk and backdrop for video in the bedroom.
However, when I looked at 1 bedroom options, most of them were not big enough and with nice enough features to justify the cost, which seemed surprisingly high to me. I've been asking myself how much extra I would pay for simply having a non-shared entrance so I don't have to put the damned mask on every time I have to take the dog out. If we could have found a 1 bedroom with a large bedroom and some combination of private entrance, in-unit washer/dryer, and area that doesn't suck (basically anywhere outside of north central it seems), we'd consider it. But we could not find such a place.
We have viewings of a few places booked for the 19th. There's two units in duplexes (1 southeast of Broder's Annex and one in Harbor Landing for local folks) and a house with a backyard (Broder's Annex, I think?). We also have a spreadsheet with a bunch of other options and will be scheduling more viewings. Our current lease converts to month to month after August, so we could stay another month or two if necessary, though I'd like to move somewhere cheaper since the rent is going up significantly at that point.
Regina is so small that location relative to other things isn't that big a deal. It would be really nice to be in what passes for the queer part of town, but that doesn't seem likely based on listings.
We've learned, looking at reviews, that the company that has the units with the lowest prices for comparable features (Avenue Living) seems to be completely awful, so we've ruled them out. (Lots of bedbug complaints, among other things. No more bedbugs. Never ever ever again.) It's annoying to keep opening up the occasional listing that seems like a great deal and finding out it's one of theirs.
