{"id":310,"date":"2008-07-28T10:49:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T17:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2008-07-28T11:44:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T18:44:28","slug":"need-an-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/need-an-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Need an Apartment?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As should be obvious to anyone reading this blog, Kat and I are preparing to move to a shiny new place just down the road. There are really only two downsides to this move: (1) we have to move, (2) we are leaving our landlady.<\/p>\n

I have blogged about our landlady<\/a> before: she is a nice old lady from Hong Kong. This house is about her only tangible asset and our rent is a big chunk of her income. I feel bad leaving her to find somebody else. So, I don’t intend to…<\/p>\n

Who needs a new place?<\/p>\n

It’s a ground-floor suite. Two bedrooms, one bath, decent living room, kitchen, shared laundry. $900\/mo + utilities. Maybe 1000 sq ft or so. Entrance through the garage, which isn’t great, but isn’t a big deal either. (It means a good spot to store a bike if nothing else.)<\/p>\n

North Burnaby at Albert and Madison<\/a>. I’m obviously a big fan of the neighbourhood, otherwise we’d be moving more than a block away. Close to a bunch of restaurants, Safeway, 135 stop (25 minutes to SFU Burnaby by bus), Brentwood Mall, bike\/hiking paths, …<\/p>\n

I took a bunch of pictures when I was moving in<\/a> two years ago. We haven’t exactly trashed the place, so it will look about the same.<\/p>\n

I’d make a killer deal on any furniture that we aren’t taking with us (my initial bargaining position: $0). That seems to include a buffet\/island\/chopping block thing<\/a> in the kitchen, a TV stand, DVD shelf, and a loveseat. A few little shelves might stay too.<\/p>\n

Remember my affection for the landlady: no loud parties, no trashing the place, no keeping her up at night. You’ll have me to deal with if you do.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Move in mid-August, as soon as we’re out. I’ll pick up that first part-month rent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As should be obvious to anyone reading this blog, Kat and I are preparing to move to a shiny new place just down the road. There are really only two downsides to this move: (1) we have to move, (2) we are leaving our landlady. I have blogged about our landlady before: she is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-moving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}