sillygwailo

fuckyeahrenting:

The Tyee has commissioned a series on renting in the Metro Vancouver area.

Part 1: No Room to Rent in the Livable City:

Part 2: Thrown Out: Fight Grinds on Against ‘Renovictions’:

Part 3: Landlords See a High Price to Cheap Rent:

Part 4: Inside BC’s Secretive Landlord-Tenant Dispute Process:

Part 5: Landlords and Tenants Agree: Market Can’t Fix Itself

I assume @vanmega has a saved search for the terms patio+vancouver so he’s no doubt already seen this.

I rent in Vancouver, and have for over a decade, and not only that, but I don’t see that changing any time soon. In the spirit of spreading myself too thin, I’ve started a new Tumblr called Fuck Yeah Renting! Original title, right? I will catalogue articles I find discussing renting vs. buying in the North American context.  I will keep an open mind to the arguments put forth for buying, though my bias will stick towards renting. If owning property works for you, then I salute you. 

I won’t subscribe to any blogs or Twitter accounts (or whatever’s current at the moment) having to do with the subject, but rather just share what I come across in a ‘stumble on it’ sense. I have enough people in my social network that I bump into something once a week or so. Call it a pop-up blog that I will maintain as long as I have to. I’ll consider co-authors, but I don’t want editorials or anything, just sharing stuff on the Internet about renting property (and possible other things, like physical items, say tools and cars and whatnot, but mostly real estate).

The Twitter account, for those who like such things, is @fuckyeahrenting, but expect no conversations to come from that account. (I’ll reply to tweets directed there from @sillygwailo.) Just stuff shared from the Tumblr and the odd administrative message.

Megan and her friend Horatio is visiting every library in the Vancouver Public Library system this summer. Like many ideas, good and bad (and this is a good one), in late June I decided I would make a Gowalla trip of all the VPL branches and review each library after I visited. I’m glad someone else thought of this independently. Details about Megan are limited, but it sounds from her Oakridge post that she “hang[s] around the teen section” giving a clue as to her age.

This bookworm approves. And I think I’ll go through with my effort, calling it the “All Branches Club” with Megan as the inaugural member.

Important work.

I had this idea that I’d build a map for it, much like I did for some guy’s list of 50 best restaurants in Vancouver. That’s still possible, but on the backburner. A trip on Gowalla might have made sense, but they limit it to 25 spots total. The other thought was to make a trip out of the category of patios, but then only those are limited to 3 or 4 each.

Uh, I mean, eat your heart out @vanmega.

Who wants to make this a mixtape for me?