Okay, here's the deal. I'm done University (finally) in a month or so. The wife and I are looking for a nice quiet apartment/condo/townhouse/basement suite for a year or so until I get a decent job and we can look at buying a house. How do you guys go about finding such a place? Is there any particular source (eg. newspaper ads, rental mags) that you have found work in the past?
And how would you deal with a situation like this: We're in a month to month lease at the moment. If we give notice on March 1 the soonest we can end the lease is March 31 which really means we need a place for April 1. A lot of the places we've been looking at want someone for March 1 and aren't willing to wait until April 1. Should we just give notice to end the tenancy and cross our fingers something nice comes up in a couple weeks or wait until we find something nice and then deal with the timing issues later?
Real estate in Calgary, whether it's renting or buying, is a bitch to get into...
