Built after watching a friend figure it out alone.

How this started

A friend of mine — a Saudi physician on fellowship at Vancouver General Hospital — moved into my building. I watched him spend his first weeks in Vancouver the way most Gulf physicians do: calling landlords who hung up when they heard he had no Canadian credit history, discovering school registration had closed months before he arrived, figuring out the SIN and MSP and banking system entirely on his own while starting one of the most demanding professional roles of his life.

He told me: someone should do this properly. He was right.

Why I'm the right person to do this

My father is from Iraq. I grew up with Arab culture — its hospitality standards, its family expectations, its relationship to formality and trust. I understand what Gulf families expect from a service, and I understand when a Canadian system will feel impersonal or confusing to someone arriving from the Gulf.

I also live in Vancouver. I know the neighbourhoods near VGH and St. Paul's. I know which property managers will work with international tenants and which won't. I know the SD39 school registration deadlines, the MSP wait period, where the halal groceries are, and which RBC branch has the shortest wait times on a Saturday morning.

That combination — cultural familiarity and local knowledge — is what makes Baytik different from a generic relocation service.

How I work

Baytik is a personal service. You work with me directly — not a team, not an automated system. When you send a message, I respond. When something comes up that you didn't expect, I handle it. That's the standard I set for myself and the reason I keep the client roster intentionally small.