Im looking for an apartment in Montreal can anyone suggest the best places?

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Hello,
He is my opinion ( I was born and raised in Montreal....and still living there).
Here are the trendiest neighborhoods: Plateau Mont-Royal Mile-End, Quartier Latin and the McGill Ghetto are probably the nicest /trendiest places to live...they can be expensive BUT also affordable, many students find apartments in these areas so it is possible.
Also Rosemont is nice but more french, N-D-G is nice to and more english. The downtown area is also nice to live in but is more expensive.
If you want much cheaper apartments you have to go further form downtown...Ahuntsic, Côte-des-Neiges, Villeray and Hochelaga-Maisoneuve have very nice apartements for lower prices...but you are either further from downtown or in not as nice neighborhoods than the firsts that I mentionned...

I don't know if you know that...but in Montreal we all move on the same day (well the big majority), they are apartments available all year round, but most are vacant on July 1st. The advantage of getting a place at other times of the year is that you usually get a better deal for it because it's low season...and less (much less) people are looking for a place so it is less crazy. (ex. I got my place ( a 6 rooms + basement and backyard in Plateau Mont-Royal for 1000$/month...in April, in July it would have been at least 1500$...) In the high season a place gets rented in about a day, so you have to be fast...right now you can take you time and shop around more...

Here are the best place to look for adds...
The Hour is the place everyone looks for an apartement...
http://www.hour.ca/classifieds/heading.aspx?iIDRubrique=200
so there you go..
good luck!