A lot of immigrants in Montreal at first rent an apartment. When you have got accustomed to the districts of the city, to the canadian life, you have got the canadian university diploma, and you are working for a stable firm, you begin thinking about buying a house.
First of all let’s speak about apartment rent in Montreal. What do you have to draw attention to?
What to do at first and how not be trapped?
After all during the term of apartment rent (it is usually 1 year contract) it is very hard to change something.
District.
When you will choose a district of a future house concentrate your attention on:
Presence of schools, kindergarten, shops, hospitals. The places for rest, parks, green spaces. Bicycle path, tennis-courts, swimming-pools, libraries.
Traffic interchange. Presence of bus-stops, subways. Easy entrance to the main route of the city. Distance to your work/study, favorite places, place of living of friends and relatives.
Find out crime rate in this district.
Perfect advice is to visit this district and check everythings out by yourself. Go there in different parts of the day: in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening. Try to understand how you feel there, do you like this district or not.
An apartment.
Area of the apartment. At first time it is hard to get used to scales 2 ½, 3 ½ ,4 ½… Actually it is very easy. Take away 1 ½ ( it means a kitchen, a corridor, sanitary arrangements) you have a quantity of the rooms. For example,
1 ½ – small room combine with kitchen.
2 ½ – studio, detached room and kitchen, very often the word “detached” is relative. The room only by sight is separated by a cupboard or bar, etc. In general the difference between 1 ½ and 2 ½ is very relative, and what to call this apartment each owner decides by himself. If you decide to rent a studio, check out 1 ½ and 2 ½ – you can find very interesting offers.
3 ½ – two-room apartment. Two room – the first room is necessarily separeted, the second room is usually combined with kitchen.
4 ½ – three-room apartment, as a rule with separeted kitchen and two bedrooms.
5 ½ – four-room apartment. Three bedrooms.
Floor – decide on which floor do you want to live
If you will rent an apartment on 1-2 floor, check the presence of entry in the parking. If you rent a flat there you take a chance to hear opening and closing of a garage doors, warning sirens of garbage
Collecting machines. Check out where are situated the elevator, refuse bins – they do not have an adjoining wall.
Find out if there are swimming-pool or gymnasium in the house, if you need it.
Where to look for the renting of an apartment?
Advertisements for rent of houses, bulletin boards, internet: montreal.en.craigslist.ca, montrealais.ca, montreal.kijiji.ca
In the local newspapers.
If you have an experience, bitter experience or good experience, about the rent of an apartment – leave comments to the article and share it with our readers.
