New Deal?
This place at the top of the hill was only supposed to be for the summer, but now the property owner wants to make a deal until the end of April. Same price as now (too expensive for me anyways without a room mate) until November then it goes up another $150 for he increased electrical bills over winter.
Sounds okay at the outset, but come wintertime and walking up the four-wheel drive road in the mud will become rather onerous and it’s out of my price range. Anything over four or five hundred is actually too much for rent; this year is being on track to pull in about 10K, and that would put half my income towards rent, which is too much already.
It feels rather isolated up here too. One of the things I really like about Bowen Island is the sense of community and living so separate from it doesn’t feel right. If I could convince some one else to live up here though it might not be too bad, the rent would be affordable as well. The word of mouth thing hasn’t got any bites yet with August fast approaching so may take a chance and put an ad in the newspaper and see what comes out of the woodwork.