In October last year, Streips posted an advertisement on social networks and real estate market pages that he was selling his apartment. “I have changed my financial circumstances – I need to sell an apartment and find something more modest. The apartment has two floors, a total of seven rooms, in the city center. The apartment is registered in the Land Register and is completely unencumbered. I would like to receive about 140,000 euros for the apartment.” Kārlis Streips approached potential buyers.
A few months later, there was a buyer for his apartment, which Kārlis was especially happy about, because due to the Covid-19 crisis, the number of clients who used his services as a translator had decreased to zero. The buyer, as Streips wrote in his diary at the time, was an actor in one of the Latvian theaters. At the beginning of June, Kārlis bought himself a three-room apartment in a block of flats in Purvciems and started to improve it, completely renovating the kitchen and bathroom.
“Fortunately, now that I have bought a new apartment and paid the real estate agent for the repairs, there is also something left over from the amount I received for my apartment. It will be a very nice financial pillow, because I was left without a Covid-19 epidemic. clients who need my translation work.This financial impact will be very nice.I do not lead a very expensive lifestyle.I, for example, I have not bought new clothes in a few years because I do not need them, it is enough with those that are.But television shows clothing – shirt, tie and jacket – taken care of by “Rīga TV24”, in exchange for advertising on television, “Kārlis Streips wrote in the diary on June 9.
The renovation of his new apartment took place throughout June, and at the beginning of July the journalist moved to Purvciems. How does it feel to get to the city district after many years of living in the very center of Riga? “The stop is a few meters from the door of the house. I go to work by trolleybus, which takes about ten minutes. No problem! At least at that time I can read a book. There are grocery stores near the house, including a large shopping center,” says Kārlis Streips. who is happy about the beautiful renovation of the apartment and is especially excited about the balcony. “Balcony, balcony, balcony! This was the only drawback of the previous apartment. But now I take a chair and a small table and in the morning, when it’s not cold, I drink tea on the balcony. That’s great, “Kārlis Streips is pleased with the new residence, revealing that it is cozy and comfortable, although a little smaller than the previous one:” Three quite large rooms: one for my office, one for the living room, one for the bedroom. feel good, I’m used to it, the house is completely normal, the repairs are very beautifully done, and I don’t hear any noise from the neighbors either. ”
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Kārlis Streips, by the way, is in search of additional work. “If there is an advertising agency, publishing house or other institution that needs a professional text translator from Latvian to English or vice versa, give me a message. I currently have very few clients, I would be happy to welcome new ones,” admits the journalist.
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