Whoever is the liaison with the current landlord/property management company needs to go to them as tell them we can’t move out until mid January. We tried, but they put us on an impossible deadline.
Also… not sure if it was already mentioned, but is it possible to keep everything in Large U-Hauls for a week or two? Park them somewhere safe and good to go?
It seems to me the main problem is lag between getting the deposit back from the bunker, and having to put down a the deposit& first month at Cook St.? I’m willing to offer VHS a short term loan to help bridge this gap.
A friend threw me this suggestion, which is interesting but I don’t have time to investigate:
“Hey, have you contacted the city to ask about storage space for vhs? They have a ton of warehouse space around, generally allocated for art and cultural use. Call 311 to talk to a city employee, ASAP as folks are going on holiday.”
Very interesting suggestion. I just reached out to a friend of VHS who may possibly maybe hopefully be able to hook us up but it is a stretch. Can someone follow up on this one? It can’t hurt to try it.
@davidcarne and @ccudahy - the offers are greatly appreciated. Hopefully it won’t come to that but certainly an option. Thanks.
Paying another two week’s rent at the current space would cost only a bit more than the cost of the trucks, assuming we get a warehouse for free, and way less trouble, and way less than the cost of storage. What has the property manager got to lose? Is someone actually moving in January 1?
Science World has generously offered to let us make use of their offsite storage facility on Powell St near Commercial Drive at no cost to us. There is plenty of room for everything and there is a raised loading bay.
I’ll be sorting out the details, but so far one the conditions are that I have to be present the entire time at the facility during the load in/out days, however I’ll only be available to do so on either Monday 22nd, Tuesday 23rd, or Tuesday 30th (but only one of those days); January is a bit more flexible.
Let me know if we want to pursue this route; we will need to plan a truck rental.
If we were going to rent a truck for 2 days, can we just rent 2 for 1 day instead, for around the same price? That way we could have one unloading while the other is being loaded - should speed things up quite a bit I expect.