When is a "security" deposit a "cleaning" deposit?

Livingroom from main enterance, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

See how the landlord of 426 Calder Ave. Ft Smith arranges to keep $669.32 of a $1,000 "security deposit" on this 3 room basement apartment in Fort Smith

Click here to see the full set of pictures as I left it on September 30... click on the individual pictures to see more detail... see if you can see anything that was damaged and in need of repair.

To see a slide show of the pictures... click here
Take a look at the pictures and decide for yourself if $669.32 is a fair price to charge for the "repair" of this basement apartment.

If you are renting in the NWT or are about to rent one.. you need to read this information from the Rental Office of the Northwest Territories, by clicking here
This note on the "Security Deposit" is taken from the above page..

What is a security deposit?
A security deposit is money given to a landlord by a tenant. The money is held by the landlord until the end of the tenancy at which time the security deposit may be used for rental arrears or tenant damages.

How much money can a landlord request as a security deposit?
In the case other than a weekly tenancy, the security deposit may not be greater than the amount equal to one (1) months rent.(Section 14[1]

You can download a PDF version of the official Residential Tenancy Agreement of the NWT by clicking here.

Hal Logsdon, Rental Officer for the NWT
Rental Office
3rd Floor, Panda II Mall
PO Box 1920
Yellowknife NT X1A 2P4
Telephone: (867) 920-8047
Fax: (867) 873-0489
Toll Free: (800) 661-0760
can be reached via e-mail at via Kim Powless

You may choose to leave your opinion on this... or telling us about your experience with landlords in the NWT by clicking on the little pencil just below this....

Pictures of China Daily

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This link will display the same set of pictures as a slide show

Myself, photographing the Great Wall

One of the things one learns at the wall... is that if one visits the tourist sections of the wall... one sees a rebuilt Wall... that's evident if one visits the orther sections... as they are quite delapidated and crumbling..

My photos of people and places in & around Fort Smith, NWT

An archive of my photos that I've been taking in and around Fort Smith... on the shores of the Slave River... just north of the Alberta border... on the 60th degree of north latitude.

Professional Memberships

Canadian Association of Journalists
Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes
Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective

Some of my online work

My weblogThe MediaMentor's Blog
E-mail lists I moderate....
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Remembrance Day 2004 in Fort Smith

Images of Fort Smith's 2004 Remembrance Day ceremonies are online.
Remembrance Day Montage 2004
The following link will bring up up a slide show of the pictures I took of the ceremonies and the parade to the cenotaph in Fort Smith.
This link will take to see the full set of pictures. Click on any picture to see the full size version.

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TASSS bake sale buyers...

TASSS bake sale buyers..., originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

On October the 30th, 2004... TASSS (The Artists of the South Slave Society) of Fort Smith had a bake sale and raised about $350,,, These are some of the folks who supportted the arts by buying some of the goddies.. I manned the table and recorded these faces as a way of saying thanks to them.

Daynee Paulette Benefit Concert Images online

Our hearts go out to Jerry and Jamie Paulette in their time of crisis. Funds raised at this concert will go to assisting them and their family while they are staying with their daughter in Edmonton. They and their family thank you all.

We pray that, God willing, Daynee will recover soon.

The Daynee Paulette Benefit Committee would like to thank the following for their kind and generous support to this concert.

Fort Smith Metis Local
Northwestern Air Lease http://www.nwal.ca/
Uncle Gabe's Friendship Centre
Keaser's Store
Northern Store
Gallery Restaurent
Gartal Holdings http://www.gardtal.com/

And all the volunteers and performers too!

Here is a slide show of the images I took at the concert that I've put online for Daynee, Jerry and Jaime to see in Edmonton. To see them too, just click here.

Stone dragon stair carving... Beijing

ths carving cried out to be photographed... such a wonderful dragon...

Another stone dragon carving

All the work at the Summer Palace was great... but the stone carvings were by far the most intricate I have seen... they even surpass IMHO the temple carving I saw in Orissa, India.

The old gods eye the new god in Beijing

The first weekend I was in Beijing... one of the other Foreign Experts took me to the Beijing antiques fair... reall just a large field where folks were standing around next to their goods... Funny thing... the next week the authorities closed it down... to clean up the city for the International Women's Conference that was held later that year.

Money in China

Money in China
Originally uploaded by Beijing Foreign Expert.

We were paid $500 US dollars oer month as a Foreign Expert... (half in US dollars the rest in yuan) dosen't sound like much... but when you know that a meal for ten people with a dozen Beijing Beers cost less that $10 US and we had free accomodations... I was able to save about $200 US every month...
This is a one yuan note of the time (1995).

My Beijing Residency Permit

My Beijing-Residency-Permit
Originally uploaded by Beijing Foreign Expert.

Everyone who lives in China needed to have an official permit from the government to be able to live where they lived... this is the inside of my permit to live in Beijing.

The inside of my China Daily Press-Pass

The inside of my China Daily Press-Pass
Originally uploaded by Beijing Foreign Expert.

I spend almost a year working at China Daily in Beijing as a "Foreign Expert" brought in by the Foreign Expert's Department of the government of the P.R.C. It was a great way to learn about China and the way of life there in 1995... and get paid for it too!

A handle...

A handle...
Originally uploaded by Beijing Foreign Expert.

... on a beautiful bronze urn at the Empress' Summer Palace in Beijing... 1995

My first test of Audioblogging

I have downloaded it to my Mac and played it there... The audio quality seems to be quite acceptable and would certainly work as a way of doing news reports for a radio station... and since it is free... would certainly be of interest to community radio stations... Why not try it yourself to check the quality? George

Myself in Tianjin

Myself in Tianjin
Originally uploaded by Beijing Foreign Expert.

... video taping a beautiful bronze pot... I'm in the yellow jacket... with our minder looking over my shoulder in the background.

An inukshuk outside of Arviat, Nunavut, Canada

Inukshuk

Inukshuk
Originally uploaded by Arviat Nunavut.

.... a tradional artistic expression in Canada's Arctic.