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Originally Posted by westopher
I have never come across one of these places. Burbs maybe. $700 bucks can get you a shithole bachelor at best in metro vancouver, other than marpole. Where it might be able to get you a nice older bachelor.
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We have a 1 bed in a newer house (>10 yr) rented which includes all utilities for 700 in the house I'm living in right now. Across the street, my cousin also has a 1 bed rented out for about the same price in a even newer house. Maybe it's just the Chinese market, but I have hundreds of relatives/family friends/friends who have houses in Vancouver and the rents they charge are about the same (700 for 1 bed; 1000 for 2). If you guys have friends that can read chinese, maybe check out the online chinese classifieds. All the new homes in East Van (and there are a lot) all theses houses are designed to have rentable suites and are mostly bought up by Chinese people who intend to use them as mortgage helpers.
Note: If you want to rent a stand-alone place, of course it's going to cost a lot more than renting a ground lvl suite. I personally don't think this is worth it because if you're renting a townhouse/apartment you only have a wall separating you from your neighbour next door, not unlike living in a ground level suite.