Hahaha speaking of financial stuff, I just called to set up my hydro account and was directed to an online form - great! Then I scroll down to the part for my checking account info for autopayments and see this:
Wait what? I don't actually have my checks yet so was expecting the account number I know plus an easily-googleable routing number! And I may have been able to figure these out but my TD Canada branch number's only 4 digits on my EasyWeb thing, so I just had the great experience of calling TD to be like "um, I don't know how to do cheque stuff here. Please help [my apparently helpless 30-something-year-old self]."
Also, I'm clearly mid-spelling-changes here lol.
@canada_dreamer, we're renting through an individual landlord. They use some sort of management company too, but I think that's for more the financial side I guess, because I know they evaluated all the bids they got in person and correspondence on questions goes to the individual (via my realtor so far, though I expect that to change once we arrive). We used my husband's paychecks from his job here, which our realtor said would still carry weight since they show he's employable. We also threw in the employment letter from our PR app, because why not? Instead of Canadian credit history, we showed US credit reports and bank account statements so they could see that we were financially responsible and had enough cash to cover our expenses during the lease. Our realtor also included that we had a house we were selling. Basically we threw out every bit of evidence we could to show we would be good renters who could pay our rent each month even though we had no Canadian credit or jobs, and thankfully it worked.
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did do that call to his employer to check that he worked there and it wasn't just a "he works there? cool" thing, like they asked about him more, so prepare for that possibility.
@tjsecondtry, that sounds good! The toddler usually naps around 12-2ish but if we need to start before that my husband can always meet us with her once she's done with that.
