Jason's Notes About Stuff

We contacted  Brian Kassab Realty  by email back in June about an apartment rental. Their agent, Kym, responded in less than 24 hours with a complete list of everything available, complete with details. All of my follow-up questions were answered very quickly by email. This was great, as I very much prefer using email to having to call. She helped narrow down our choices, and decided on a unit in the St. Christopher Club in Frigate Bay. Kym was even nice enough to hold the condo for us while we waited for Mel's work visa to get processed. The lease and deposit were all done easily visa email. I was able to send a scanned copy of the signed lease, as well as our credit card information. They made the paperwork extremely easy for us. When we arrived, it was a simple matter of getting the keys from a lock box on the door knob, and we were in our new home. After our arrival, we did have a few maintenance issues. The condo is in an older building and hadn't been oc...

"My job is not to make you happy." "I'd appreciate if you talked less with your hands. I find that very irritating." "Maybe if you talked less we'd get along better." These are some wonderful quotes from Daryl Ashby , a local Pemberton Holmes real estate representative in Victoria, BC, during our final move-out inspection. As we pleasantly greeted Daryl, he gave us with a scowl, telling us how this type of inspection  "wasn't his job."  It seems that through a scheduling mishap, they had forgotten about it until the last minute. Our moving day, already a difficult time, was made infinitely more stressful by his sour demeanor. I found his attitude and statements both astounding, and confusing. Real estate is typically a field that relies on referrals and references to survive. 8 months earlier, we had a similarly rude , aggressive experience with his real estate agent daughter Cheryl Ashby . The place was in horrid...