Two weeks. Egor Matveev and his partner, Kathleen Hare, moved into their St-Henri apartment two weeks before it was destroyed in a fire. And that was two weeks before Montreal’s traditional moving day, July 1.
Matveev told The Gazette’s Leora Schertzer that finding a replacement has been “taxing” in Montreal’s cutthroat housing market, where landlords move quickly from one rental candidate to the next and leases for affordable rentals get signed fast.
And yet, compared with other tenants in the building, Matveev says he feels like “one of the luckier ones.”
