Tag: landlords

Things I wish I’d done before I signed my lease

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Being in first year, I wasn’t exactly a seasoned renter when I started looking for places and neither were any of my soon-to-be housemates. The place we ended up with wasn’t all that bad, but the issues we ran into were enough to warrant some regrets.   The utility bill  At 17-years-old, I wasn’t...

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Tenants: know your rights or risk them

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When I decided to come to Queen’s, people were quick to tell me how difficult the transition would be.  “No one is going to hold your hand anymore,” they told me. Again and again.  It wasn’t until second year that I realized it wasn’t enough to know how to do laundry and feed myself I had to know...

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Landlord agreements not always legal

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When Madi Trenholm found a broken oven in her new apartment, she thought she would just have to ask her landlord to fix it. She said the oven wasn’t working when she and her housemates first entered their Birch St. apartment in May 2013 — and despite repeatedly telling her landlord to repair it, the...

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Stuck between high rent and a hard place

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Rent prices in Kingston are among the highest in the province and Queen’s students are paying for it. The Fall 2012 Rental Market Report from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) placed Kingston as the fourth most expensive rental market in the province. Kingston tied with the district...

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