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More Rental Properties
Jul. 20th, 2022 09:59 amWe viewed several rental properties yesterday. The weirdest one was a house with no front door. It wasn't boarded up or anything, and there was no sign that one was ever there. Just a single door in the back.
We saw a unit in one of Regina's few high-rise buildings. It was decent enough, and the building was well-maintained if plain. The floor plan was weird there too, with the second bedroom having a large accordion door that opens into the living room. That seems odd for a bedroom you might put a child in, but for our purposes it's actually a feature.
I also found that the space around that high-rise is perhaps where I've felt most at home in this city. Tall buildings, shops and businesses along the road (including the local queer nightclub, not that we're going there in the pandemic), and even a few people walking or standing. That felt like Chicago or Evanston, and that feels like home. The majority of Regina, and the North American built environment in general, is suburban hellscape and it was nice to be out of that for just a little while.
There was a basement unit that we might have considered despite the higher cost of paying for our own utilities, except the bedrooms were too small. We could fit a king bed in the larger of them, but nearly the whole room would be a bed. Other than that it was a nice place, and we like the temperature stability of basement/garden units.
We saw a unit in one of Regina's few high-rise buildings. It was decent enough, and the building was well-maintained if plain. The floor plan was weird there too, with the second bedroom having a large accordion door that opens into the living room. That seems odd for a bedroom you might put a child in, but for our purposes it's actually a feature.
I also found that the space around that high-rise is perhaps where I've felt most at home in this city. Tall buildings, shops and businesses along the road (including the local queer nightclub, not that we're going there in the pandemic), and even a few people walking or standing. That felt like Chicago or Evanston, and that feels like home. The majority of Regina, and the North American built environment in general, is suburban hellscape and it was nice to be out of that for just a little while.
There was a basement unit that we might have considered despite the higher cost of paying for our own utilities, except the bedrooms were too small. We could fit a king bed in the larger of them, but nearly the whole room would be a bed. Other than that it was a nice place, and we like the temperature stability of basement/garden units.
