The apartment

Soo we found out yesterday that we will be moving into our original apartment hopefully in the next week...here is the story

We have been lucky enough to have many people who have helped us along this journey, including Sean's brother.  He introduced us to a friend of his that owns some apartment complexes (the ones that used to be houses and now they are 6-8 apartments), so originally we had talked about a two bedroom basement apartment that should be available the beginning of July...this is where I realized that landlords don't have the same power in Quebec as they do in the United States.  Sean's brother had signed a lease for us to move into that apartment when we arrived.  While we were still in Colorado we found out that the apartment probably wouldn't be ready in time for us to move in.  I am thinking the other tenant was just having some issues getting all of their stuff out...but no it turns out that you can skip paying your rent and the landlord has to wait 3 months before they can do anything and really all they can do it take you to court to get an injunction against you.  So because our landlord had a court date on the 23rd, he offered us another apartment that he had and once things got settled we could decide if we liked this one of the one that we originally signed the lease for.

When we arrived we walked into this apartment that I knew right away would not work for us.  The floors are wood and for those of you with dogs and wood floors you know it can be a challenge for the dogs.  So the pups walk in and start some slipping and sliding and then I see STAIRS.  Now I don't know if I have said this but Luna is starting to loose her eyesite.  She has cataracts in both eyes, 60% in her left and 10% in her right.  So occasionally she will run into stuff or step hard off a step...so slippery floors and steep stairs would not be good.  We let our landlord know that this current apartment would work in the interim, but we would not be able to use the downstairs because we would be afraid of the dogs falling down the stairs.  So for the past week we have been living in a studio apartment, that gets really small really fast.  We found out yesterday that the other tenant will be removed soon and hopefully within the week we will be able to move into the 2 bedroom that we originally though we would get.

Here are the pictures of what we are stayin in now...

this is where we have been sleeping..the sofa pulls out to a bed.  In a couple of weeks it will be in the guest room for when you come up to visit =)

This was taken next to the couch...our small little kitchen and a table that is really for extra space and to put groceries

Taken from the front door, which we don't use...we have to TV on a dresser that we got from a friend

Looking into the living room (?) from the fridge and that open doorway is the stairs which is coming up

out little bathroom with the winter curtain and bath mat because it was the first ones we found

 And here are the scary stairs...

here they are...we have my craft drawers in front of it so the dogs can't get down there