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EXPLORING KNOTTWOOD

Elisa Krovblit Senior Editor Yellow Pages NextHome Email: elisa.krovblit@ypnexthome.ca Twitter: @ElisaKrovblit

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Age and stage I loved my first apartment. It taught me a lot about who I am and what I need in my home.

I loved the house I shared with three other roommates in university. It was like a dream – so much fun, such a great combination of people.

I loved that first apartment with my husband – then boyfriend – building our home together, creating a future.

I love our place now – a homestead with children and roots and a network of wonderful neighbours.

Your apartment is a place to live, but it should also be a place that accommodates your lifestyle. Every stage of your life has different needs, and at YP NextHome, we’ve realized that your age and stage of life has a lot to do with your next home.

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on your own. The birth of a child may dictate moving to a larger place with the right number of bedrooms for the growing family. Starting a home-based business may mean moving to an apartment near other businesses and services useful to you, while choosing a place that has space for a home office. Divorce may mean downsizing as your financial situation changes.

Sending the kids out of the nest may offer the opportunity to right-size to your needs while saving on rent!

Whatever age and stage you’re at, find that perfect place to live. From the neigbhourhood and location you choose, to the style of your suite and the amenities you can access, make the most of your new home.

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By Elisa Krovblit YOU’RE A RENTER AND you appreciate the lifestyle. Ask any homeowner who has received an unexpected roof repair bill, or had to call a plumber or had to move to accept a job offer - and you’ll appreciate it even more – especially all of you “all inclusive” renters. Have you heard the news about hydro prices these days? Or do you enjoy your luxury of not having to pay attention to that issue.

But rental living has a few demands that can be easily met by every resident, ensuring that their rental experience should be nothing but maintenance-free and smooth sailing.

1. Understand your lease

You signed it and you’re bound by it. Whenever you’re about to sign a contract – and yes, your lease is a legally binding contract – read it and make sure you understand it. If there is anything you don’t agree with, ask.

If there is any wrong info, have it corrected. Leases can be negotiated, changed and rewritten. Once it’s signed, those are the rules.

2. Know your rights

Each province and territory has its own set of rental rules and there will be a landlord and tenant board or government office that enforces them. Know how to access them and understand the basics. If anything in your lease contradicts the rental law, the rental law overrules. If you have issues during your tenancy, these are a great place to start to find out what your rights are and how to resolve them. You’ll also need to know how your deposits work and how to give proper notice. If you do that wrong you might find yourself on the hook for a lot of money you weren’t expecting to spend.

3. Rental insurance

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landlord has you covered. The landlord has insurance, but it’s coverage for the building – literally the structure, mechanicals and the common areas. You need tenant’s insurance to cover your personal belongings. Imagine if you had to replace everything you own at once. Clothes, furniture, electronics, kitchenware etc. Imagine a pipe bursts and destroys much of what’s in its path. And it’s not just property loss or damage, if there is a fire and you’re displaced, your insurance will help cover that. If a visitor has an accident in your premises, insurance foots the lawsuit bill. Rental insurance is quite inexpensive. Many leases stipulate you must have it, but even if it’s not mandatory, it’s not a good idea to skip it.

4. Check your credit

If you’re thinking about moving – now or in the future – keep an eye on your credit. You’re going to have a bit of trouble moving with bad credit since most landlords now do a

credit check as part of the application process. If you pay bills late, try to break the habit. See what’s on your credit report and try working to repair it. Plus, sometimes mistakes get made. You don’t want a mistake to cost you a rental opportunity – or any opportunity for that matter!

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In-suite laundry is becoming much more common, especially in upscale, newly renovated or new buildings.

But if you don’t have it in your suite, make sure you’re laundry-room ready. Get a bundle buggy or laundry cart to store your soap and make transporting loads to and from the laundry room much easier. (Bundle buggies are great for taking stuff to and from the car too). Keep a stock of supplies and get into the habit of reloading your card or replenishing your stash of quarters after each laundry day. That way you’re not scrounging and scrambling if you need to do an emergency load or want a last-minute outfit.

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has long been a superstition.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th. Whether it stems from The Last Supper in the Christian faith or from Viking lore, we’ll never know – but it’s among the most famous of the superstitions, enough so that a great number of buildings don’t offer a 13th floor.

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seven? Would you ever live on the 13th floor? How superstitious are you, and how much would it affect your next apartment?

Numerology plays highly in real estate superstition, because it’s so integral – street names, street numbers, floor numbers and suite numbers.

So are you supersitious enough to include or exclude these numbers in your next apartment hunt?

4 Unlucky: Tetraphobia. In Chinese it sounds like the word for death so 4, and any number with a digit of 4 is to be avoided: 40, 444, 441. Numerous buildings exclude the fourth floor and some even a room number 4.

Vancouver had an increasing problem with developers wanting to omit the fourth floor, 14th floor and any other floor with the number 4 – even excluding suites with the number 4. According to Chief Building Officer Pat Ryan, as reported in the Vancouver Sun November 2015, it was becoming a safety issue, and the city issued a bulletin to developers 1 2 YPNEXTHOME.CA

that removing floors for cultural or superstitious reasons would have to stop, citing that, for example, it could pose a danger to firefighters in case of emergency, who would not be able to rely on finding an actual floor by numerical sequence if random numbers are arbitrarily missing in some buildings.

7 Lucky: Whether it’s the number of days it took the divine to create the world or the fact that 7 is a number that repeats itself in too many obvious ways – 7 seas, 7 colours in the rainbow’s spectrum, 7 notes on the scale – it’s lucky and it’s worked out well for playoff games and James Bond (007) too.

8 Lucky: An auspicious number in Chinese culture, 8 is considered to be the luckiest number.

9 Unlucky: In Japanese, 9 sounds like the word for torture or suffering and is to be avoided.

13 Unlucky: Triskaidekaphobia or the fear of the number 13

17 Unlucky: In Italy, 17 is not a welcome number. The Roman numeral for 17 – XVII – is an anagram for VIXI – a term implying you’re dead, similar to the term RIP (Rest In Peace). You don’t want your address denoting you’re dead. Real estate, in turn, rules out 17 – which is easier and less intrusive to do than 4!

18 Lucky: In Hebrew, the same digits are used for letters and numbers, so every word can be read as a number.

The digits for 18 are read as the word “life” which is invested with a belief of luck, especially luck to live a long life.

To live at number 18 or on the 18th floor would invest the residence with luck for a long life.

666 Evil: From the book of Revelations, John The Apostle’s reference to ‘The number of the beast’ (chapter 13) is associated with Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.

Though in Chinese culture, the pronunciation of 666 sounds like “things going smoothly” so the number is favourable. I once had a colleague who lived at 668. She joked that she was “ The Neighbour of the Beast.” This one is pretty universal.

There are other superstitions and signs of luck in real estate, beyond renting a home with a yard full of 4-leaf clovers on St. Patrick’s Day, so may luck be with you finding that new apartment!

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WHEN I FIRST STARTED RENTING, I used to look for prices that included utilities because I didn’t want to deal with setting up hydro and paying another bill. Ten years later, I still do the same thing because I don’t want to worry about running my air conditioning in the summer. (I know that’s not a great thing to admit, but I’m going to assume that I’m not the only person that does that.)

I’ve heard of landlords adding conditions to lease agreements when it comes to allinclusive rent — for instance, prohibiting space heaters in the winter and/or excessive air conditioning in the summer.

Perhaps you’ve read before that certain clauses in leases are essentially meaningless and in some ways, that is true (in Ontario a “no pets” clause in a lease is void), but it is also true that landlords generally have the right to include restrictions.

Landlord and tenant boards often suggest settling disputes before they escalate and I would suggest the same — but it’s important to know your rights when it comes to utilities and rental legislation.

Ontario As I’ve admitted, I am a little more careless about my AC than I would be if I were paying the hydro bill — which is why it’s noteworthy that landlords can apply to increase rent by more than the set guideline if utility charges become excessive.

In Ontario, there is no legislation that specifically addresses stipulations around allinclusive utilities. A landlord could file against you if you ignored a clause in your lease, but there could also be a case against the landlord should you prove your point. For example, if the unit genuinely needed an appliance like a dehumidifier, it would be hard for the landlord to challenge you, even if the lease stated dehumidifiers were prohibited (according to the Landlord and Tenant Board).

Manitoba According to the Residential Tenancies Branch, a tenant could challenge whether or not a lease condition was reasonable — and something like a space heater ban would likely not be considered reasonable if the case was brought to court.

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In Ontario, there is no legislation that specifically addresses stipulations around all-inclusive utilities.

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Landlords in Manitoba are only permitted to increase rent once every 12 months and so they cannot do so randomly to cover extra utilities. If your rent is less than $1,455, landlords are restricted to the rent increase guideline.

Alberta Landlords can include any restriction when writing a lease and if you sign the agreement, you’re bound by it, according to Edmonton’s Landlord and Tenant Advisory Board. Having said that, the legislation doesn’t address utility restrictions and if you weren’t violating any laws as a tenant, it would likely be hard for a landlord to terminate your lease based on a claim about utility usage. You could still be challenged in court for violating your lease.

Landlords in Alberta can only increase rent every 12 months and the province has no limit on that increase — but they can’t just up the rent whenever they so choose.

There are ways around the 12-month increase.

If you signed a six-month lease and your landlord then asked you to sign another with a new stipulation regarding the utilities (like having to pay a percentage of the bills), the landlord would still be within their rights as they would not be increasing rent, but rather having you sign a new contract.

British Columbia As with the other provinces, the utilities specifications fall into a grey zone in B.C. According to the Residential Tenancy Branch, landlords could follow through with legal action as with any lease violation should you ignore their terms.

Landlords in B.C. can only increase rent once a year by the standard allowable rent increase. They can, however, complete an application to request an additional rent increase which would look at the reasons they might have for demanding it (i.e. excessive utility costs).

You know your rights, so let’s just agree — if you don’t need the space heater, don’t run it. If you’re wearing a sweater in the summer, turn down the air conditioning. Wasting energy doesn’t help anyone, and if renters expect landlords to be reasonable, tenants can be too.

Jackie Marchildon is a bilingual writer and editor. She spends her time searching for hidden gems across the city, whether it’s new neighbourhoods and restaurants or upcoming trends in real estate and home decor.

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