Why pay rent when you can Owe.

The letter from our landlords read that as from November the 1st the rent was going up, relatively they were spiking the rents by $60 a month, which worked out around the eight percent mark, it was a shocker and was taking our monthly rent into the $800+ zone. It was also somewhat amusing that our landlords official title was "The Shelter Housing Corporation of Canada" and it felt like we had been given a deftly worded eviction notice as we had already been quite grumbly about the level.

Boiling a frog.

I don't know if the reaction was immediate, but it was reasonably quick and helped along somewhat by a mysterious advert in the rentals classified section of the Ajax free newspaper. The tagline being "Why rent when you can Own?" which was really groundbait from the local Remax Office, tempting the little fishes into the housing pond.

I phoned the number and was passed to Dave, a pleasant enough chap, let's call him Remax Dave.

Remax Dave asked a few pertinent questions and wondered if he could visit, I explained that the missus was at work and would not get home until later, he added an hour on and said he would be over, see you soon.

Karen arrived home from her long commute and I dropped the news that we would have shark infested waters before settling down to telly that night, she gave me one of those looks and we sat on our hands until the man arrived.