Ontario landlord wants you share a room stuffed with 3 beds for nearly $500 a month

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Ontario landlord wants you share a room stuffed with 3 beds for nearly $500 a month
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As the province's average rent price for a one-bedroom apartment continues to creep above a range many of us can reasonably afford on our own, land...

continues to creep above a range many of us can reasonably afford on our own, landlords continue to search for alarming ways to appeal to prospective tenants who might be strapped for cash.

Adjust your filters on rental websites like Facebook Marketplace or Kijiji, and you're bound to come across at least a handful of listings that fully invade the tenant's privacy. The latest disturbing listing to emerge out of Ontario's rental market is a shared room in Kitchener for $485 per month for one male, or $450 for a couple.The listing boasts the home's proximity to transit connection points, but glosses over the fact that tenants will have to share beds within less than a foot of each other.

The ad was quickly reshared on Reddit, where users shared their horror at a landlord packing a room with three beds with little to no privacy for the future tenants."The ad game is absolutely on point. Rethinking renting? Yes. Absolutely," another person wrote, referring to the ad that popped up above the listing.

in Brampton for $550 a month, as well as a mattress packing into the corner of a living room in Ottawa for a staggering $500 per month.Virtual staging transforms this cheap $600K Toronto house into something moreBidding wars still common in Toronto's housing market but demand is easingThis unremarkable bungalow is $4 million because it's in a fancy Toronto neighbourhood

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