Best place to live in Montreal for 1k rent per month?

[boobie519]

I live in Toronto now and pay just under $1k per month and live with roommates. I'm looking to maybe move to MTL and have a place for myself.

I'm not like a lot of you high rollers here - I have a modest salary. I'm just looking for a 1 bedroom apartment thats close to groceries, restaurants, or even like Chinatown like where I am now. Maybe a more trendy neighborhood if possible.

Anyone know of some nice and safe areas like this to look at in Montreal?

Thank you

 

[CaptRenault]

Try this search in Rentals.ca. Lots of choices.

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

When we bought our rental property I searched sites like this, drove around and spent a couple of days walking around there visiting eateries, pubs, stores.

Best Neighbourhoods to Rent in Montreal

Are you trying to figure out which part of Montreal to move to? Here are the best and most popular neighbourhoods to rent in Montreal!

www.rentfaster.ca

 

[jilpale]

Lol you can trade with mine. I'm looking for a place in Toronto for $1500, my own, not sharing. Am I dreaming?

 

[marky1234]

You have to choose the following areas : Old Montreal, Griffintown, Quartier des Spectacles. It wont be easy to find a place at 1000$ or less but it answer all your criterias.

 

[chinavibez]

I live in Toronto now and pay just under $1k per month and live with roommates. I'm looking to maybe move to MTL and have a place for myself.

I'm not like a lot of you high rollers here - I have a modest salary. I'm just looking for a 1 bedroom apartment thats close to groceries, restaurants, or even like Chinatown like where I am now. Maybe a more trendy neighborhood if possible.

Anyone know of some nice and safe areas like this to look at in Montreal?

Thank you

Depends on where you’re coming from and if you’re trying to match the same atmosphere. Liberty Village? Parkdale? The suburbs? PM me I can help, I lived 50/50 across both cities for a long time.

 

[boobie519]

Lol you can trade with mine. I'm looking for a place in Toronto for $1500, my own, not sharing. Am I dreaming?

I havent looked in that price range in Toronto but I feel you could find something for that price possibly in Scarborough

 

[jmioffe]

When we bought our rental property I searched sites like this, drove around and spent a couple of days walking around there visiting eateries, pubs, stores.

Best Neighbourhoods to Rent in Montreal

Are you trying to figure out which part of Montreal to move to? Here are the best and most popular neighbourhoods to rent in Montreal!

www.rentfaster.ca

Is that url right?

" ... the Mile-Ex neighbourhood is for you! Currently, there are 7 rentals available with an average price of $616."

"Rentfaster.ca currently has 38 rental listings in the Le Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood with an average price of $1,403."

Is the Plateau 2.5x the price of Mile-Ex?

 

[chinavibez]

Is that url right?

" ... the Mile-Ex neighbourhood is for you! Currently, there are 7 rentals available with an average price of $616."

"Rentfaster.ca currently has 38 rental listings in the Le Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood with an average price of $1,403."

Is the Plateau 2.5x the price of Mile-Ex?

Yes, but realistically add about $500 to each to find something decent (and of somewhat recent construction) to live in .

 

[TheJames101]

Plenty of good apartments for around that price outside the tourist areas

 

[marky1234]

And Verdun is very well rated. Some years ago Verdun didnt have any appeal. Things change. Found this article today :

Montreal’s Verdun borough ranked as world’s 11th ‘coolest’ neighbourhood - Montreal | Globalnews.ca

The online website Time Out awarded the borough the high ranking based on a laundry list of reasons.

globalnews.ca

 

[LeafsSuck]

St. Catherine St. W. is still our main artery. If you can find a place between Atwater and University, that is our constant busy area. Some of the other places mentioned in the thread are areas for clubbing or happy hour and pretty quiet outside of these times. Good luck! Let me know if you need any other pointers.

 

[boobie519]

Thanks everyone just got around to checking the messages here.

 

[remuus]

I think life in Montreal is not so expensive. I have plan to move to another place in the future. I decide to buy new flat in Mississauga here https://mcitycondo.info/ because I like Canada and have good job in this country.

 

[decoy2673]

Lol you can trade with mine. I'm looking for a place in Toronto for $1500, my own, not sharing. Am I dreaming?

I live in Toronto right now. You can get a 1500/1bedroom in a new condo in the downtown core right now for 1500 due to COVID. Was 2000-2200 just a year ago.

 

[CLOUD 500]

I think life in Montreal is not so expensive

Open doors to mass immigration is going to make life in Montreal very expensive. We are headed the way of Toronto unless Fidel Trudope is voted out of office.

 

[mysiteonly]

Toronto has gone crazy with all their pricing rentals, resale. They are headed the way of NYC. I like it here.

 

[Anna Bijou]

Mile-Ex, Little Italy, Villeray, Verdun. Ville-Marie is good too.

Depends where you work and if you have a car or use public transit. Also depends what you are looking for. Good food, culturally diverse, near parks..?

Plateau is over lol I lived in the plateau for a few years until recently. I don't miss it. I find other areas have a lot more appeal now.

Forget about Old Montreal or Griffintown for $1000.

I moved back to Quebec after 10 years in Vancouver five years ago. The prices there were insane. I hear it's gotten even worse. What happened in Vancouver was really sad to see. So many character homes and buildings demolished and replaced by soulless condo towers and tacky McMansions. A lot of people just couldn't keep up and moved outside the city. Empty houses are empty condos. We're REALLY lucky this isn't the case here.

 

[CLOUD 500]

I moved back to Quebec after 10 years in Vancouver five years ago. The prices there were insane. I hear it's gotten even worse. What happened in Vancouver was really sad to see. So many character homes and buildings demolished and replaced by soulless condo towers and tacky McMansions. A lot of people just couldn't keep up and moved outside the city. Empty houses are empty condos. We're REALLY lucky this isn't the case here.

That is thanks to those foreign Honk Kong people who used real estate as a stock market. Damage is done. Blame the leaders who are all supporting globalism.

 

[Anna Bijou]

Those McMansions of course required a 3 car garage. Out there they are built separately from the house, not part of it like here. I remember a story about people who felt that a tree on the property was inconvenient. It is illegal to cut down a tree.

The incident was the second at that address, after six trees were cut down in November in what landscape architect Judith Blake Reeve described an "arboristic homicide."

"We will be pursuing the maximum fines in this case," Brian Jackson, the city's general manager of planning and development services, said on Tuesday. The maximum fine is $10,000 per incident.

Link

You think someone who spent millions on a property just to demolish a perfectly nice home to build an enormous house is going to be deterred by a $10 000? He learned his lesson, made sure to cut them all down at once the second time around and get a single fine.