The Best Apartment Rentals When you are looking for a place to live, sometimes it can be hard to find what you are looking for. Here are some simple bits of information that can make it easier for you to find good apartment rentals in the Toronto area. Before you go around looking at the number of bedrooms you need, always first consider your most frequent places that you will be travelling to. If your work is at Young and Bloor and your apartment is is Mississauga, you could be spending literally hours either driving or in transit every day. Obviously the closer you are to your destination, the less time that you will have to spend in transit. Your needs for accommodation may only be for you. Or, you may need an apartment that will house you and your family of four. Once you have chosen the area in which you need to live in order to be close to your destinations, look through advertisements listing accommodations with the number of bedrooms you will need. Take the time The cost of rental housing can vary greatly, depending on location, number of bedrooms and the amenities that are included in your rent. In most apartments in the Greater Toronto area, you can expect that you will have a refrigerator and stove included in your apartment. Some may have a washer and dryer in the unit. Others will allow access to a laundry room in the building for the use of the tenants. Some smaller apartment buildings or private rental arrangements may require you to find a nearby laundromat to do your laundry. While you may consider heat and electricity to be necessities for living, your landlord may or may not include the cost of utilities in your rent. As a result, make certain when calling to inquire as to the costs of renting whether they are or not. If they are not, find out what kind of heat is being used. Electric heat can be very expensive in winter, you may need to make arrangements with the hydro company for equal payments in order to prevent the shock of getting a three hundred dollar heating bill in winter. Better yet, just make sure you rent a place that includes heat and hydro in your costs. Some buildings are cleaner than others. There are plenty of apartments for rent. Before you complete the application to rent in a building, go hang out nearby or ask some of the tenants how clean the place is kept. While you are touring the apartment you are looking at, look behind the refrigerator and stove if you can to see if there are cockroach corpses. If this is your first time renting an apartment in Canada, you will need to provide some information to your prospective landlord. They will want to know where you work, how much you earn, where you go to school and who will be responsible for paying the rent. If you are new to the renting process, they will ask for an adult who has a credit history (who has bought a car, a home, or who has been working in Canada for several years) to cosign the application to ensure that they will get paid. When you do finally find and secure the place of your dreams, you will be happy that you took the time to do your research. Now you can sit back and relax in your new apartment in Toronto.