Furnished Rooms for Rent

 

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You can contact us and ask me to email you our rental inquiry form to collect this information. This is our preferred method. It only requires a web browser to fill in the Goggle form. (If you are an ESL student, we very highly recommend using this method.)

If you would prefer not to use our form, then we suggest that you provide at least the following information:

• Your full Name and age
• Gender
• Phone number(s)
• Permanent email address
• City that is your permanent address, or country if an international student.
• If an international student, your current location
• University or college that you plan to attend, or are attending and the course at that institution
• The desired start and end dates of your accomodation
• If on a work term: Name and address and phone number of employer
• Do you plan to bring a car?
• If you far enough away from Ottawa that an in person visit is not practical, do you plan to have someone from Ottawa come and inspect our house?
• (Optional) Where you saw an ad, or how you found our web site

After reviewing the information you provide on the form, we will arrange to have a telephone interview as the next step in our rental process.

There are many frauds that attempt to deceive Landlords, such as one called "overpayment scam" and its variations. Therefore if you wish a guaranteed room to stay, we only consider a room rented to you when you have read a copy of our lease and have signed it and we have received payment. Until payment is received and has cleared by our bank, we will continue to consider accepting other applicants. We will only accept payment by secure methods.

A room reservation requires a payment of at least the first month's rent, and the last month must be paid before you move in. If you are reserving within 60 days of the move in date, the advanced reservation requires payment of both the first and last month's rent.

If you are an international student and you are currently located outside Canada, please read this carefully:

First of all, we are happy to provide accommodation to international students, and we enjoy having international students stay with us. However we are continuously receiving false attempts to rent our rooms by people attempting an overpayment fraud which is well known in Canada. We will not waste our time on these frauds. Therefore if you wish to book in advance we have the following process to eliminate fraud. We first will require proof that you are enrolled in a local College or University and you have paid for your tuition, or that you have a job offer for a co-op work term or Internship position. We will verify this information. To do this verification if you are attending College or University we need your student number, program name, start and end date of your courses, and your date of birth and place of birth. If you are on a work term or Internship position we will require the full name, company, and address and phone number of your employer so that we can contact them and confirm your employment. Only once this has been verified will we proceed to a telephone interview. Then we consider accepting a reservation. Next we require payment of at least the last month's rent deposit. We will only accept advanced payment from outside Canada in the following ways in order of preference:

• A SWIFT network Wire transfer from an approved banking institution that has a financial relationship with my bank. (preferred)
• An Interac e-mail transfer from a friend or family member who lives in Canada who will make the payment on your behalf.
• Western Union Wire Transfer

If you do not wish to have a guaranteed reservation in advance, and plan to inspect our accommodation as soon as you arrive, then that is fine. We will be happy to answer all of your questions as soon as you supply us the same information described above so that we can confirm you are a genuine student coming to Canada. We do not reserve or guarantee to rent you a room in advance of your arrival without you paying our rent deposit and completing our lease agreement. Without a guaranteed reservation, there is a risk you may find that we are full when you arrive in Canada.

If you are inside Canada, and we have not met you in person, then payment for an advance reservation will only be accepted in the following ways:

• Interac E-mail money transfer
• Bank draft issued by the TD Canada Trust bank or the RBC bank (Royal Bank of Canada)

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