Someone Posted A Kijiji Ad For A Montreal Studio Apartment In A Car Garage For $505/Month

A Montreal studio apartment for rent has been making waves on social media — because it's actually a converted car garage.

A now-deleted Kijiji ad for the space put the rent at $505 per month.

"It was a garage initially, transformed into a studio," the ad stated, adding that the apartment included an oven, fridge, toaster, TV, wardrobe, BBQ and a table.

Heat, electricity and Wi-Fi were included in the rent.

It was described as "ideal for a single person, worker [or] student."

The closed door of the former garage was visible in the photos on Kijiji.

An address wasn't listed, but the ad said the space was eight minutes by bus from the Henri-Bourassa metro station in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough.

Screenshots of the Kijiji ad posted to the popular mtlflextv Instagram account amassed over 5,000 likes and 200 comments. Followers of the page mostly poked fun at the apartment listing and implied that it demonstrated the state of the Montreal rental market.

So did a tenant rights group.

The Regroupement des comités logement et associations de locataires du Québec (RCLALQ) shared a photo of the listing on Facebook.

"Housing at $500, said Premier François Legault a few months ago," the group captioned the post, referring to the premier's now-infamous suggestion that Montreal rents "start at $500 or $600 a month" — a comment that many of his opponents and tenant groups denounced as out of touch.

Contacted by MTL Blog, the person who posted the Kijiji ad for the garage studio declined to comment on this story.

They told the Journal de Montréal, however, that they were not the owner of the property but had been living in the apartment.

This article's cover image was used for illustrative purposes only.