You want house? You pay big bucks! You no have furniture!

#Day 5

The apartment search drags on! We are reconsidering our original budget, having already reconsidered where we want to live... There are places to rent but they are dayum expensive and come with nothing. Essentially an expensive, impractical warehouse. When you do find somewhere on craigslist that seems promising you eventually get something like this:

'Thanks for your interest in my property. I am looking for a responsible & clean tenant that will be able to take good care of my apartment because I'm not given my apartment for rent just because of money but due to my transfer to Washington DC, USA. I'm an Overhauling manager, but have just been transferred to ****** plc in DC, you can view our site at ******* I left country with hope that I will be coming back in a month's time,but right now the company have ask me to stay for 2yrs under contract with them that why I have made up my mind to put up my apartment for rent I also have another property in Germany but the government took over the whole territory. 

I spent a lot on my property that I want to give you for rent and I want to use the rent fee for my Daughter pocket money fee,She is studying in England UK and I would want you to treat it as your own and I would like you to keep it tidy all the time also want you to let me have trust in you, the rental fee $850 per month has including utilities for the whole of the apartment. Please let know if you can take good care of the place very well? Hope you have a nice day and you will need to provide the below information;'

 

They then cunningly ask you to fill out an 'application form' to make it look SUPER PROFESSIONAL.

 

Aparantly Vancouver has lots of homeless people in the winter. Well, there's quite a few in the summer also. They're not the shaking, harsh-voiced messes that occupy the streets in Dublin, but generally polite poeple. There's also a load of street punx who probably live at home but sometimes sit outside and sing/shout about wanting change for beer. One of them looks like Seth Rogen.

And to finish on a light hearted note, we did manage to get bank accounts set up (though getting money into them is a different story) and a brief sniff through the job section online seemed promising.