OMG!1111!!! BEST NEWS EVAR!!!!
I now live on Keizersgracht, southeast of Leidsestraat. I am extremely happy and excited. It is considered impossible to get an apartment on a canal, I have been repeatedly advised to not even try. I have achieved the impossible. This is beyond awesome!
I have to give full credit to Breigh, who found the ad for me on marktplaats.
Told you it would work out.