bigboi on 10/19/2011

10/19/2011

It's been about a year and 4 months since me and my mom moved in 219 Bell st. N, but since the beginning we started seeing bed bugs and lots of cockroaches, so my mom cleaned the apartment every single day for 5 months with bleach, and we had it sprayed! but guess what... they keep on coming back! and the shitty manager keeps on saying 2morow we'll come and see and they never came for about a month, so we gave up and my mom started her intense cleaning again and from so much cleani

Unhappy Tenant on 07/20/2011

219 is horrible, I have lived there since November, we have had infestation problems with cockroaches and i had found rat shit all over my broom stick when I swept.

These are very common problems along with bedbugs, and NOTHING IS DONE to take care of this.

I suggest you investigate or find more information about this building prior to even CONSIDERING on living here.

You will probably find information about the same subject which dates back to 2007 and this is a consistent problem th

Jo on 12/17/2010

I live in the 219 building and my sister is in the process of moving to Ottawa from Vancouver. Naturally I told her to move here. In her research she came across this site. I'm shocked. I don't get what everyone's problem is. The management here is one of the most proactive in terms of pest control I've ever come across. A couple of months ago I got a notice from the office that they wanted to do a preventative pest inspection. I'd never heard of a landlord doing this before so I called the offi

catherine. on 08/17/2010

HA. Fairview Towers is a joke. I only wish I had known about this website before I moved here. This was my first apartment ever, and my first time in Ottawa. We've been living here for a year and the lease is up and we are moving. We had a problem with bed bugs during the winter after we moved in September of 2009. They tried to blame the bugs on us.. and when the rental agent called the exterminator, she goes, "hey, I got another one for you - yepp.. same building!" I guess our infestation wasn

Jessy on 03/26/2010

219 Bell St. N is infested!
My roommate and I moved in to our apartment in June of 2009. Before the bedbug problems started or the mice started to call our apartment home, we realized that we were in trouble. Upon moving into the apartment there was a large knife shoved under the kitchen cuboards, mould in the washroom, the balcony window was broken, and there were black patches along the corners of the ceiling and floor boards....
We eventually realized that the black patches were bedbug egg

Breebree on 10/12/2009

September, 2009
I found bedbugs in my apartment and reported it to the rental agent. My bed was so infested with them I had to throw it out. When I reported it to her she handed me a sheet of paper which was within reach (without having to even leave her desk) on what to do to prepare for my apartment to be sprayed. I got my apartment completely ready for it to be sprayed and let her know. She told me it would be sprayed two days after me giving her the sheet. Two days later, no one came. So I

John Smith on 10/03/2009

Also, do not be fooled by the rental agent. She is very sneaky in that she will not willingly admit that there is any infestation of any kind, unless you confront her about it.

The management company's strategy in fighting this horrendous infestation is to call in pest control ONLY for select rooms (ONLY if you complain about bites from bugs, or show them the damage done by the bugs), and almost all of the time they will try their hardest to charge you for the costs. This building is infeste

Anonymous on 08/26/2009

I\'ve lived here for almost a year. In the summer of 2009 I had to throw out a lot of my stuff from the first infestation. $60 of laundry later, the management company didn\'t think they should share only the cost of the stuff I had to wash. Two months later and I have to throw out more stuff and prepare for another fumigation. Between all of this, I had to lay traps because they wouldnt come in and had to kill 5 mice on my own. My apartment is crazy clean, dishes are washed, no food is lef

Anonymous on 07/09/2009

I lived in this building for a year and we had bed bugs over 5 times!!!! The landlord wasn\'t understanding with us and said many people had the same problem and it was expensive for them to take care of... obviously she doesnt know what the tenants go through. Having bedbugs means you have to wash all of your clothes, bedding, and clean out your closets and dresser!!! not only time consuming but very expensive. They also neglected to inform us that after the spray you have to go through your bo

219 on 06/16/2009

I lived on bell the year of \'08 and it was infested with bed bugs AND cockroaches. DO NOT MOVE INTO 219 BELL ST N!!!! (a.k.a FAIRVIEW TOWERS!)

It was about 3 months of living there that i started getting huge bites all over my arms, and found a little brown bug on my curtain hanging above my bed. Of course I freaked, and insisted my unit be sprayed, but my bitch of a roommate at the time hadn\'t had any bites, so she decided not to help get the apartment ready for spraying. I was over react

Anonymous on 04/05/2009

This entire building has bedbugs. That's not to say that every single apartment is infested, but I know for sure that different apartments on different levels have them. They were also found in the washers and dryers onsite. We've had them for fall and winter 08', and now spring 09'. They will come in and do sprays, but they sometimes ask YOU to pay for it.