Originally Posted by lomsky

They sometimes will ask you to show them proof of a return i.e. a ticket.

Originally Posted by Kraven

Nice that looks great, how did you find it? I've been using craiglist to look which seems quite good.

Originally Posted by otoro

i've never had a return ticket physically in my hand until i've checked in the day before leaving and printed it out, or gone to check-in on the day of leaving..

clare88, did they ever ask you specifically what you were doing in canada, or did you just say, just visiting! (like the jail in monopoly)

Originally Posted by spaynter

If you're after a condo your best bet is to use a Realtor. They don't charge the tenant anything and they sort out all the contracts and everything. If you're not used to it the Canadian renting system can seem really weird.

The guy we used drove us round to look at 5 condo buildings in an afternoon and we picked the best one. He prefilled all the contracts and gave us a list of the best insurance companies and stuff.

If you want contact details for a realtor let me know.

Originally Posted by lomsky

Well you wouldn't be asked to show it until you're at the border anyway. E-ticket print out would suffice I'm sure.

I've entered Canada four times and have never been asked to show return flight information. They will usually ask about details of your visit, places planned to see etc. So definitely know what you're going to say.

My Canadian girlfriend was held up coming into the UK for about 30 mins, because she didn't have any sort of evidence of a return flight (although she did actually have one booked). She ended up getting through, but was only given a visitors visa for two weeks.

Originally Posted by Kraven

Ah, I am travelling on my own so I was planning to move in with someone looking for a room mate in a condo, I have no idea how the renting system works so I assumed this would be the easiest as someone will have already sorted all that out, so maybe a realtor would not be the best option for me.

Originally Posted by otoro

check out kijiji for roomsharing in toronto, and craigslist.

Originally Posted by otoro

would saying that yr canadian partner was gonna be yr sugar mama for the time you're here be acceptable?

Originally Posted by empirestate

Has anyone from Ontario used "Homestead"? http://www.homestead.ca/ their site says they have apartments all over, utilities included and often good prices, well to me at least, staff on site etc to deal with issues, that kind of thing gives me more peace of mind in a new country.

Originally Posted by spaynter

I think they mainly deal with rental buildings where they are the sole landlord for all the units. Some of these can be truly horrific. They are cheap though.

Originally Posted by empirestate

What I was thinking earlier is that obviously processing all these Irish Applications takes time, If it takes 10 minutes to check a persons eligable, theyve paid, and process and send their letter...for 6500 people thats 1083 hours, with a 2 week turnaround and them probably being closed at the weekend, or at least halfday sat and all sunday, thats 77hours that need to be processed per day, thats 10 people working 8hrs a day, 5 days a week, JUST TO GET THE IRISH ONES DONE IN TIME! Im hedging bets on it opening either the 11-14th or 18-21st, thats the 14 days processing time (If its straight 14 days, or 18 days with the weekends added) Theyll wanna get as many of them done as possible before adding more to the processing pile, as we saw this week Germany opened 10 days after the irish opened, if were looking at 10 more days thats bang on the 18th which is what i thought above. Maybe the Germans not going crazy will free up some hands to open ours too, I wanna go already!!!!! I dont wanna have 8 weeks waiting yet to come :-(