How to Rent an Apartment in Vancouver 2022 / 2023

[@ExNihilo634]

Useful thanks but I feel like there is more to the process, what happens after giving the 50% upfront. How much can they ask for a deposit? Should the deposit be kept in a protection scheme? At what point do you sign the lease? Whats the notice period to break a lease? etc

[@samserious9406]

This is a very useful video. We're a family from Ukraine, and thanks to your advice, we found an apartment in about a week. I now recommend your video to all Ukrainians for watching and understanding how to properly rent an apartment here in Vancouver. Thank you so much, Adam.

[@jingdara7849]

Writing a comment to support the channel. I started following your main channel about 4 month ago. I decided to move far from war (I am Ukrainian) and Canada seemed as great place to start a new life or at least wait for war to end. So I searched a content about Vancouver and have discovered your channel. I watched your videos and was planning my life in Vancouver. This month I finally moved to Vancouver and I am really grateful for all the info you shared in your videos, I picked up a lot about rental apt and some other perks about living here! I feel like you are my first friend in Van, despite you don't know me, ha-ha)) I also worked for game dev company before (in China) and loooove volleyball, haha!

[@AdamJBell]

- Commenting from other account - but wow that's so nice of you! Really appreciate it 😁 I'm glad the info has been useful and helped you feel a little more at home!! So much in common between us haha. If you see me definitely say hi !! ✌and WELCOME

[@jingdara7849]

@@AdamJBell Thanks, I definaly will! Btw, I work remotely and it is very common in Ukraine to work from the cafes or places like cafe/library/shared space etc. If you know good ones in Van, would love to watch the video on such topic. Hope here waiters will not roll their eyes if I stuck in their cafe for few hours with one cold brew, ha-ha

[@AdamJBell]

@@jingdara7849 hmm possibly could make this a segment in a video! thanks for the idea :) I personally go to Breka pretty often! There's a few of their locations around the city! Worker friendly 🙌

[@davidchandler6885]

If my credit is not the greatest would you suggest family member rents it for me?

[@WakingAngels]

Can you do a video on how to pay for an apartment in Vancouver? Rent there is OUT OF CONTROL 😕

[@Tugela60]

Most of those units have negative cash flow, the rents are not going down. Also, with changes to the rent law, it is going to be extremely difficult for small landlords to sell property that has renters in it. The result is going to be that fewer condos are going to be rented out, it is just too risky.

[@Reverb47]

I’m on Facebook marketplace and I’ve texted almost everyone in surrey and Vancouver but with no response for weeks now

[@hectorito19]

Thank you for all the information Adam! You are an excellent Realtor/Person and this helps my family a lot!

[@SeaandSkyRealEstate]

Thanks Hector! (Adam here, writing from my team account) :D Let me know if we can help you at all in the buying and selling market in the future!

[@Tugela60]

Finding a rental is going to be like looking for chicken teeth in a few days from now 😂 Due to changes in rental laws, many if not most investor owned units are going to be selling the property asap, which means property will be leaving the rental market in droves and there won't be new units coming on to the market to replace them. Renting property out is too expensive and too risky with the new changes.

[@andreaorozcol7630]

Wha are your thoughts about Rentals Ca?

[@anthony88888888]

good luck with the future channel Adam

[@AdamJBell]

appreciate it Anthony !!

[@hastigh1695]

One of my biggest dreams is to move to Vancouver.I hope I can use this video one day🥺✌️

[@AdamJBell]

I hope you can as well 😊

[@tomroohan]

We recently moved to Vancouver from AUS. Finding a rental was ok. Although without jobs and being new to the country we did have to support 3 months rent upfront as a sign of good faith. But only after we had met the landlord and actually inspected the apartment did we follow through with this. This was also all supported in a legal tenancy document.

[@AdamJBell]

Great way to do it! Smart move AFTER meeting the landlord and inspecting the place. This will be a helpful comment for people to see 👆 Welcome to the city Tom! 🤙

[@andreamaraldg]

Thank you for this very useful video and tips

[@elai3147]

9:11 wouldn't the landlord eventually find out my ethnicity when I look at the place in person, what's stopping the landlord from discriminating against me then?

[@AdamJBell]

Technically they could at that point without anyone knowing, but the rule is in place to avoid it as much as possible.

[@ibraheemali9541]

great content

[@AdamJBell]

happy to share 🙌

[@ibraheemali9541]

@@AdamJBell 🙂

[@adamisick]

NICEE

[@Aebischer1984]

Hey Adam jw are landlords allowed to say no pets? I have a 75lbs dog she’s well behaved very friendly but it’s pretty frustrating to see a lot of places that say no pets.

[@AdamJBell]

Technically yes they can put those rules in place. It is unfortunate because I know it's tougher when you have pets. Just a recommendation is that even a couple that say no pets - include at the end of your email something like "I respectfully see the listing says no pets, but I do a have a ...." and if they really like you and your story they may make an exception. Some buildings don't allow any pets so sometimes there is 0 chance unfortunately.

[@danielagarroux]

Does it make any difference to say the dogs won't be left alone at home, they will go to the dog day care while I'm out working?

[@Tugela60]

​@@danielagarrouxNo. No pets means no pets.

[@rodrigoaguirre8926]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@AdamJBell]

thx Rodrigo !!

[@fernfernisfernie]

The short answer: you don’t lol move tf out of this city. The rent prices make no sense in comparison to other places.

[@RMD992-f2n]

everything you've said is common sense. not very helpful

[@AdamJBellRealEstate]

For people moving from drastically different locations, some things are not common sense. I compiled answers for many of the questions I get asked on a daily basis and made this video 👍