(Re: Motel-Apartment #279 at the Desert Inn: Please note that #279 may have been booked, but that #265 needs a Roommate.)
Re: #279:
Hi! The Motel-Apartment has: 1-Bedroom, 1-Bathroom & a Kitchen & Living-Room, & is unfurnished.
Location: The Desert Inn~Unit #279-755 West Columbia Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 1K8.
The Desert Inn may have been constructed in the 1960’s or 1970’s, & to stay there, I’ve been paying rent on a bi-weekly basis.
If you’re interested, could you please contact the Motel-Owners (or me) as soon as possible?
(UPDATE Feb. 2/24 re: THE HEATING-SYSTEM HAS BEEN REPAIRED) “Please be aware that: The Motel-Apartment’s Heating-System includes two Baseboard Heating-Units that don’t work (but the Manager & his Handyman tried to fix what was wrong w/the Electrical-Panel in the Fall of 2023,) so unless the Heating-System can be fixed, you may wish to bring in some Space-Heaters.” (FYI: It seems that Oil-Filled, Radiant Space-Heaters are the best kind (?)) In addition,
The Motel-Apartment needs extensive cleaning & other repairs done, something I’m trying to get accomplished, which I’ve stopped doing at least until the weather gets warmer. (Jan. 13/24.)
Furthermore, the Motel-Apartment is an End-Unit & you’d be sharing a Wall w/a certain timeline on 1 side of you. By extension, I’d suggest that who could work the best w/the nearby neighbors might be someone who is socially aggressive & somewhat conscience-impaired. Despite what might have been certain behaviors they had, my former neighbors showed that they knew about being seen in a good light & were more than capable of being nice. I was not always at my best behavior while their neighbor.
(Incidentally, my impression has been that a husband & wife living at that wing of the complex were quitting smoking <3)
In my opinion, disadvantages at Motel-Apartment #279 included:
-Obsolete (or meagre) Construction of Building-Layering, Sound-Proofing, Heating, Ventilation & Cooking-Peripherals (eg, the Bathroom doesn’t appear to be sufficiently heated or ventilated, the Kitchen-Stove doesn’t have a Range-Hood w/a Ventilation-Fan & there aren’t any Kitchen-Backsplashes;)
-A possibility that at least 1 of the Water-Lines (eg, Plumbing, Sewage) is on a Septic-System (?)
-Obsolete Fire-Safety features (but the Smoke-Detector passed a Fire Safety-Check in November 2023;)
-No Surveillance-Technology;
-(Previously alluded to) Ongoing Gaslighting- or Harassment-Behavior (CCC: Article 264. (1),) something for which I have no hard evidence showing it took place. My impression was that, generally & on any given day, I didn’t start things (?) But you should talk to everyone concerned, because I sure criticised, bickered & quarreled, perhaps partly b/c I wanted to stop the behavior (?)
-Ant- & Spider-Infestation: On the other hand, I didn’t see bedbugs, cockroaches or rodents, which I consider worse than ants or spiders, &
-You may not enjoy the Motel-Apartment if you’ve got expansive culinary requirements, & cook a lot & tend to put (greasy & hard-to-clean) food-spatters everywhere. There are a number of nice Restaurants nearby & the Motel-Apartment is likely best kept clean.
But I think advantages at #279 included:
-The other Guests tended to be extremely quiet & considerate;
-The Guests were friendly;
-The Motel-Apartment has a lot of natural light, & the Floors, all Hard-Surfaces, are easy to clean;
-There’s an (undeveloped) Backyard (w/sandy & pebbly soil) where 1 might be able to build a Garden;
-The Backyard is well-fenced & seems to receive a measure of sunlight, &
-The Managers let me fix things, are easy to work with, are good at fixing things & appear to be talented Gardeners, who’ve permitted me (more than once) to enjoy Produce from small Gardens they’ve been tending:
(You might want to volunteer (eg, to water the veggies or do some weeding) during the summertime, when Mr. & Mrs. Basi may want some down-time; you might find that it pays off handsomely :) (You could come into possession of some Produce!))
Recently, I moved from Motel-Apartment #279 to #265:
Re: #265:
Examples of whom I could do recurring, set-period Contracts w/include roommates, billets, evacuees, refugees & foster-pets.
If you’re willing to cooperate w/others who, while basically after the same thing as you, may not be informed by the same influences, then consider yourself welcome at my lair :)
About me: I’m 63, nomadic, & a University Grad, Activist, Whistleblower, avid reader & film-buff, & see myself as an outsider. Between *(rorschaching) some1 or sth, or hankering after a Theatre-Production I worked on, I imagine it wouldn’t be a bad idea to defray the rent-cost at my unfurnished, (bi-weekly rent-payable-) 1-Bedroom Motel-Apartment at the Desert Inn.
The 1st time I heard about “stigma” I was surprised. I thought sex was just part of the body & sth I could discuss freely.
Do you have a goal that you plan to be doing while you & I share a living-space? (The goal could be non-strenuous, like recuperating from a health-prob until you can take on sth harder, or even deciding what to do next (let’s say you’re in the aftermath of some kind of calamity,) as long as it’s oriented upwards.) I need to be selective & so do you.
If you’d like to do some digging on this lead I’m giving you, then please keep the following in mind:
-According to a makeshift, set-period Contract (& Set of House-Principles) we’ll agree on & sign, we’ll pay our Landlord via a certified rent-payment method. I may also take other measures to protect myself from what you might do to hurt me, such as asking to take a photo of your ID & vehicle License Plate. You’ll be doing sth similar;
-The Contract will have flex to allow for the unexpected & for options to extend/renew/recur;
-SORRY: NO SMOKING! No exhaling noxious fumes of any kind!
-I don’t know if pets are allowed, but I’ve seen cats, & at least 2 dogs, at the complex. Likewise, I can accommodate a small # of well-behaved family-members, & perhaps extra bodies could be allowed in the event of what might be an emergency;
-Your occupancy can begin once I get Unit #265, to be occupied by no more than 2 people generally, cleaned & fixed up. This eventuality might happen around mid-May 2024 (?) (I’m not certain when I’ll be finished the work that I believe needs doing at my former & current Motel-Apartments, but I’ll endeavor to keep the information up-to-date. Incidentally, I would be happy to be in charge of doing the (conventional) cleaning & unskilled tasks, & reporting of Maintenance-probs;)
-The Unit has: 1 Bedroom (w/Door Lock-Hardware,) 1 Bathroom (w/Shower & Bathtub,) 1 Open-Style, combined Kitchen-&-Living-Room, & is owned & operated by the same Company as the Star Lodge Motel next door;
-The Motel-Apartment might be somewhat full of my belongings;
-If you want the Bedroom, I’ll sleep in the Open-Area;
-From what I understand, it’s possible that more than 1 person living at the Unit can receive complimentary wifi-service, evidently included in the rent-cost;
-There are coin-operated Laundry-Appliances at the Star Lodge Motel (or you can do your Laundry & Dry-Cleaning (more expensively) at a “McCleaners-” outlet on Summit Drive,)
-The Motels are located at Kamloops’ “Sahali-” area & close to Thompson Rivers University;
Disadvantages at the Motel-Apartment appear to include:
-Noise from Columbia Street;
-A faulty Smoke-Detector (eg, it sometimes goes off for no reason & I’ve changed its 9V Battery at least 2x since moving in;)
-The neighbors at this wing appear to have slightly different patterns than the people at my former wing, &
-Ant-infestation: I put in a few Ant-Traps at #279, they didn’t seem to have much effect & I don’t know where the Ants are coming from.
But advantages appear to include:
-Having Baseboard Heating-Units that function, the Motel-Apartment is reasonably comfortable, &
-So far, there appears surmountable cleaning & upgrading to do.
If possible, I’d like to room w/someone who has a strong ego, & is helpful, tidy & content to prepare food, for the most part, just by heating sth up or adding hot water to sth.
Thank you!
Renee K. Taylor, BA (French,)
Certificate, a (Theatre) Stage- & Costume-Design Program;
Cleaner,
Activist/Whistleblower,
Civilian.
*Rorschaching: The “Rorschach test, also called Rorschach inkblot test, [was a] projective method of psychological testing in which a person is asked to describe what he or she sees in 10 inkblots….The test was introduced in 1921 by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach” (Source: Britannica.)
Without Prejudice.
Apr. 7/24.
CA
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