The Northern Housing Experience (Or why you should only come here if you already have a place to live...)

When you read in the local newspaper that a homeless woman is quoted as saying she would "rather live in a campsite in winter" than rent from the local slumlords, that's not a good sign.

Finding a place to rent is a devilishly difficult proposition.
I found the quote by the homeless woman all the more hilarious as I came *this* close to renting from that very slumlord, only to have them scorn me for not having a signed letter from my previous landlord, nevermind I am a landlord myself!

Oh yes, dodged the bullet on that one!
They can have their mould-infested ceilings, their ratty 1960's chesterfields (not even couches. that is too grand for those fleabags) and their exorbitant rates. Does $875 for a bachelor's sound about right for that dump? It shouldn't!
Nevermind it was packed with their old crap furniture circa whenever.
From dive to roach-motel, we grew even more depressed as we surveyed our surroundings. Whitehorse is not a renter's paradise, it is an owners.
Luckily, our story ended happily--we bought. Take that, scumlords and slumlords alike!
Word to the wise, the fact that when you are in a small town, everyone knows your name works both ways...