Submitted by "very_displeased" on 08/24/2008

I also have been living in this cockroach infested apartment. I can't even enter my kitchen at night without shoes. No matter how clean we keep it. Not only that but my apartment started leaking soon after moving in. I brought it to the attention of the manager, but she brushed it off. Since it was Nov. when we moved in I was accepting of the fact that no repairs could be made untill summer. I go to pay my rent in June and also make the manager aware that the ceiling is now leaking in the kitchen along the wiring for the light. She replied with attitude "they where supose to start work on the roof yesterday". So again I let it slide. Now the last major rain fall we had at the end of July cause our kithchen ceiling to develop 5 large holes. I came home to find 2 inches or so of water on my floor, in the stove and in the light fixture. I called the manager right away. She was pissed off that I had called her at 6pm after she is off duty from the office. I had asked her nicly if she could move us into another suite, since I knew there is at least 10 of them available. Her response was "why". Are you kidding me. I was starting to get upset with her so I ended the conversation. Nothing was taken care of. The next day the rain continued harder and my ceiling caved right in late at night. I went to the office first thing the next morning and to show her the picture of what happened (since she is to lazy and does not care to look for herself). She said nothing, she did not care. I asked again if we could move into another suite. Her response was no because the other suites have new carpet and you have a cat. I decided to give notice the very next day Aug2. and payed my rent as I knew there was nothing I could do. Now the large hole in my ceiling is being covered up by garbage bags and the matinence guys put another patch upon 3 other patches on the roof. Now I can't find a place to live and may have to tollerated these conditions for a while longer. If she lets us stay. I don't know why this place hasen't been condemed!!

SO BEWARE DON'T MOVE IN TO 801-807 E 6TH AVE!!!!!!!!

Submitted by "LCJ" on 08/15/2008

I have lived in two different suites in this building. The first one was on the ground floor right beside the entrance doors. It was impossible to have the curtains open at any time because anybody approaching the building could see straight into our apartment. People would constantly be knocking on our sliding door asking to be buzzed in (the buzzers didn't work anyway) or wanting to bum smokes. We didn't have any insects there but I remember a lady chasing Sue the building manager while screaming that her baby is covered with bites. The news reporters came later that day and were looking for stories. The next week somebody had spray painted "Sue is a cunt!" etc, all over the walls in the hallway.

The other suite was not far from the first one, just up one floor and two apartments over. Immediately after moving it became clear that we were not alone. The cockroaches had developed into several varieties; a cockroach in the bathroom would be rounder and blacker with fatter legs while a kitchen cockroach would be longer and lighter in color and would use it's antennae more. But I digress...

On bedbugs: I remember the first time I encountered a bedbug, I was reading a book (I forget which one) and as I was turning the page a blackish insect fell off of me onto the open book. I picked up a pen and popped it. It exploded, leaving behind a pool of fresh blood. My blood. Before that my roommate had insisted that there were bedbugs, but that was the first one I saw. I never got the bites, welts and rashes that my roommate got. I think she was more affected by the bedbugs than I was. After seeing the effect that they can have on a persons lifestyle I believe that they are extremely hazardous to a persons physical and mental health.

The management of 801 and 807 East Sixth (I call it "The 801") has changed since I was there but I don't believe that much else has. That building is fucked. One wall in our apartment was so hot to the touch that you could not touch it, and it was like that all the time. We could not control the heat, and there was only one window. During my stay we received at least 4 notices that exterminators were coming to spray for bugs but if there is a dog in the unit they can't enter unless someone is home. Also, the building is so large that they couldn't treat all the apartments on the same day so the notices would say that it could happen anytime between Tuesday to Thursday of the next week. We both worked but since we had a dog, that meant that somebody was going to have to be home all day for the entire time specified on the notice. Out of the 4 notices we got, there was only 1 occasion that someone actually came. It victimizes tenants because quite often if you are living in that building then you may not be able to afford to stay home from work just to wait for someone who doesn't even come.

A week before we moved out this goof decided to exhaust a canister of bear spray within our apartment. It stained the walls orange but it also suppressed the bugs for a while, giving us a chance to sanitize what few items were important enough to take with us in sealed rubber bins. It is interesting that after that incident nobody called the police even though the air throughout the hallways was filled with bear spray.

If you ever have a chance to see this building up close, be sure to check out the massive pile of infested furniture and household objects that is located at the west end of the upper parkade. The selection changes every week! Also, if you go out onto the cement courtyard at the north side of the building DO NOT let the door close behind you unless you want to climb down a rocky cliff.

Submitted by "Les Miserables" on 08/08/2008

I would just like to confirm the accuracy of the language used in the other report...."the place looks clean when you move in, but it's riddled with bedbugs and cockroaches". My husband, baby and I currently live at this address, and we too are getting out as fast as we can. Although the management has made pest control efforts both for bedbugs and cockroaches, they seem to have little effect....even after the specified wait time.

We have had problems since our first night here 6 months ago, when my husband woke me up in the night, saying "something's biting me"...since then, we've tried everything...changing bedding, using sprays, repellent, clothing, essential oils and fumigation....and now we're reduced to sleeping on the livingroom floor without a mattress. We've lost our sleep, our peace, our quality of life and virtually our sanity!

We're calling it "the house of pestilence" and we wholeheartedly endorse the advice of the other reporter...DON'T MOVE HERE!!!

Submitted by "Jessica" on 06/07/2008

DO NOT MOVE HERE!!

I moved in November 1, 2007 and couldn't get out fast enough by January 15, 2008.

The apartment looked clean when I moved in but quickly discovered the place was riddled with cockroaches and bedbugs..

What a JOKE!!! SOOO not worth the $850 rip off rent!!

Lost sleep, my bed, my bed frame and bedding!!!

Submitted by "David Pellizzari" on 02/27/2008

Full on, lost everything to this place, termites, bedbugs and cockroaches gallore.