Nothing too eventful today. We saw the new apartment. It’s nice and fairly roomy, at least by the standards of our place in Vancouver.
Speaking of which…
Two days before we moved here (the Monday, I guess), our landlord in Vancouver asked to meet with us to talk about “our schedule”. It turns out that his girlfriend is moving into his place with her son (the landlord lives upstairs). That will be too many people for their space upstairs. They need to expand into the basement, where we live.
So, we’re getting kicked out. Gently. The landlord knows our schedule sucks for this, so he’s being as helpful as possible–offering whatever help he can to find a place, or move (he can get a good rate on movers, apparently). But, it doesn’t change the fact that we have to move in Vancouver while living in North Carolina.
The current plan is to get the place packed by the movers (they come and put your stuff in boxes, then take it to the new place). I was going to come back to Vancouver briefly in mid-June anyway. It looks like that’s going to be extended, so I can get our stuff to a new place on July 1. I’ll probably leave the place (mostly) packed-up, and come back at the end of August to deal with it.
Of course, this added stress that we didn’t need when trying to pack for the pseudo-move to NC. If he’d told us a week sooner, we might have been able to get everything ready for the movers, put everything in storage, and saved the rent. Maybe.
Practical upshot: we need to find a new place in Vancouver for the start of July. If anyone comes across a two-bedroom place in North Burnaby, email me. We’re also thinking about the Univercity (stupid name, though it may be)–it’s close to work, and we know all the units are new, at least.
We may also have to move in NC on August 1 (it’s a sublet, so we knew that). That would be three new apartments in one summer. Shouldn’t that qualify for disaster relief or something?