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Police Supervise Your Kijiji And Marketplace Exchanges At These Spots In Montreal & Laval

There's no shortage of horror stories related to trading, shopping and selling items online through websites like Kijiji and Facebook Marketplace. But the days of giving your address to a sketchy stranger on the Internet are over. Laval police just launched the area's first "neutral meeting zone," which allows residents to exchange goods in a safe, supervised place — and similar spaces already exist in Montreal.

"The use of online goods trading and resale sites, such as Kijiji and Marketplace are booming. Unfortunately, there is an increase in theft and fraud during face-to-face meetings. This space aims to offer citizens a safe place to conduct their exchanges and thus prevent thefts and assaults," Laval police explained in a news release.

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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.

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Here's What You Can Actually Get Renting An Apartment For $500 Or $600/Month In Montreal

Premier François Legault's questionable thoughts on apartment rentals starting at $500 or $600 a month in Montreal inspired us to see what we could find for that price in the area.

We found some places for rent right in the city and some about an hour away, proving that you can indeed find an apartment for $500 or $600 a month in or around Montreal... if you're willing to scale down your idea of a dream apartment, that is.

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A Montrealer Made An Interactive Map With All The Apartments You Can Rent On Kijiji

Montrealer Jonathan Rossy has created a new way to see all the apartments on Kijiji are available for rent in Montreal — an interactive digital map he's calling mtl.apartments.

Current listings are displayed in real-time and stretch across a map of the entire city. No matter where you're looking to live in Montreal, you can skip browsing hundreds of Kijiji pages and find your dream home with one convenient resource.

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9 Of The Weirdest Items You Can Actually Get On Kijiji In Montreal Right Now

Most Montrealers who are into shopping remember the early days of online marketplaces like eBay and Alibaba, where items sold by independent sellers were scarce or highly expensive. As the e-commerce phenomenon grew in the early 2000s, Kijiji established itself as "Canada's largest classifieds site," with over 16 million monthly users.

An easy place to buy, sell or swap used items, it's also a sustainable and environmentally-friendly way of shopping in Quebec.

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