The next decade....what's in store?

The new apartment

The retired landlord is Grenadian who migrated to Canada at age 15. He still has his Grenadian accent though. He met me at the unit. There are seven or eight of them, some two bedroom, some one bedroom. I had secured a one bedroom for March as a temporary measure because I needed to know where I was coming back to on the 2nd from Trinidad.

It is bare, bare, bare. But for the price what could one expect? A TV maybe? Some hangers even. How about an iron? Well nada. But I knew that before because I had emailed him from Jamaica to find out what it had so I could buy stuff in Jamaica at Azan's (there is a blog entry about that I think).

Before left for Trinidad, I had seen a two bedroom, however although the rent and location was good, I felt I needed more space. Went to look at a three bedroom today closer to the hotel, right on the Grand Anse main road and even better, close to the gym. The rental agency is going to try and negotiate with the owner to see if she will come down off her price.

Interestingly enough, in 1997 or 1998 when I was looking, I had gone to look at that apartment and it was 'fugly'. Brown drab furniture like what your grandma would have purchased when she moved to London in the 1950's. Serious. And it had three bedrooms and ONE.......ONE bathroom!

Anyway, the upstairs has three bedroooms and two bathrooms, a large kitchen and all the modern conveniences - microwave, washing machine and dryer, air conditioning units in all bedrooms, a large living room (furniture not too pretty but it will do), television with cable etc.

So I am keeping my fingers and yamtoes crossed. Cross yours too.

Posted by yamfoot at March 3, 2006 07:41 PM