his building is in a great location but the building sucks....not worth what they are asking for.

everything had to be moved one foot away from the walls. After 2 treatments 2 weeks apart I thought the bed bugs where eliminated. I though wrong, just this week I've noticed more bites on my arm along with the exoskeleton of one on my mattress. I would rather not go through the treatment again as it would take just as much effort to move to a new building as it did to get everything ready for the exterminators.I'm hoping I can find a way to control them on my own but I have a feeling they are everywhere in the building and will always come back.

d of time in between Metcap and Transglobe when there was no real landlord or management on the premises. Once I accidentally forgot my keys back home in Northern Ontario and the Transglobe landlady would not let me in my own apartment because I was only the tenant on the lease (my parents signed the lease, I am a young student). I tried explaining this fact, that they did NOT live in Toronto, only paid the rent & this idiot wouldn't let me in my own home. When I became rather irate she asked me to PRAY with her. This is the type of lunacy that occurs at 15 Dundonald. Things got REALLY bad once Transglobe took over. During the winter term (January-April) the water/hot water was turned off at least 3 times a month for full days at a time. The shitty fire alarms would go off all the time, always a false alarm except for once in December 2010. It went off in the middle of the night & the firemen had to walk up the smell stairwell to the 20th floor as the emergency elevator wasn't working-why would it, the elevators NEVER worked. The one on the right especially. It was rare for both to be working at the same time, and if they were they were overrun with construction crews, filthy and took forever. Leaving elderly people on higher floors prisoners in their own homes. What if someone needed medical care and the elevators were not working? I personally never had a bed bug problem and never saw a cockroach after the brutal infestation. But I assumed it has only gotten worse there since I left, with the constant construction, herds of roaches are probably migrating in search of food sources. The Transglobe workers were always loud and working early in the mornings, I was often subjected to inappropriate sexual comments made by men older than my father. It was not a pleasant place to live to say the absolute least. I would strongly advise people not to move in there, I hated it by the end. The renovations are just a quick fix-like waxing over dirty floors, or painting over a dirty bathtub-mine had a pubic hair incapsulated under the paint when I moved in.Oh, when I moved out in April 2011 I booked an elevator 2 months in advance for when I was leaving. My Dad took time off work and rented a trailer to come from Sudbury to help me move. The DAY BEFORE I move out (my Dad's en route to Toronto) the landlord calls me and tells me I can't use the elevator as the other one was broken (go figure) & they couldn't put the only working elevator on service for an entire morning. I was furious & my Dad & I moved out regardless. We had to pack up the night before and against the permission of the landlord. It is an awful, unorganized place with huge issues. If I would leave for a weekend, I would come home & turn on the water & it would run rust/red for a few minutes because of the filthy piping. There was a huge hold in my washroom wall to access my neighbors piping which was never repaired. The shower's water temperature was inconsistent and would change from boiling hot to freezing cold in an instant. Don't move in!! The location isn't worth the b.s!

iminated. I though wrong, just this week I've noticed more bites on my arm along with the exoskeleton of one on my mattress. I would rather not go through the treatment again as it would take just as much effort to move to a new building as it did to get everything ready for the exterminators.I'm hoping I can find a way to control them on my own but I have a feeling they are everywhere in the building and will always come back.

serious noise issues, because they're tearing each apartment apart as one by one disgruntled tenants move out.)It's a great location so more tenants are always willing to move in, though.

The 18th floor apartment beside me apparently had a bedbug problem, but I never had a problem---TransGlobe sent pest control guys in as a preventative measure in April; they sprayed and asked me about any rashes etc.

I saw two cockroaches in my entire time in the building, back in '09 while cleaning under my microwave. Killed 'em; scrubbed the kitchen with bleach; never saw another. I don't doubt the people who tell the horror stories about roaches streaming out of the ceiling during the recent renos---but I just wanted to say it was possible to live in the building and not have to deal with an infestation..

THAT SAID...I'd suggest waiting until next year when the renos are done to move there----if at all.

it around the pipes because that's where they come from. Meanwhile there are at least 30 baby cockroaches crawling into our apartment from UNDERNEATH THE DOOR. This place is disgusting and the landlord does NOT listen to complaints. There are no maintenance request forms available, all you can do is call this phone number that logs everything electronically. Not only is this a major problem for you if you want to take legal action, but I found out that our request to that phone number for pest control was never logged. Furthermore, there were maintenance requests under my name that I never made! This place is a complete disaster as far as management is concerned. DO NOT MOVE HERE. They are raising the rent as well, so a renovated apartment is 1700 a month! DO NOT BE FOOLED BY PRETTY CUPBOARDS! You will still have cockroaches, you will still have no hot water, you will still have no heat in the winter, and you will still get stuck in elevators as they fall three or four floors. You will regret moving here, I guarantee it!

now but only wait for house manager to come to fix the problem. But I guess it won't work out as the way you want.

However, We will move out in June......It is so hard to bear sleeping with those bedbugs.....

Metcap) and we thought that things would improve! If anything, things are worse. Water is off every second day, forcing people to bathe by kettle and cloth. Heat does not work (though the tenants act states that in Toronto, the legal minimum temperature is 21C) Elevators are always broken. One night, the elevator slammed shut on my fiancé, locking her in as I had already stepped out and then fell 3 floors with her in it! This has happened to us 3 times in the last 2 months. More often than not, 24 floors of tenants have to fight for the use of ONE elevator. Some nights, neither works. Living on the 17th floor, walking up the staircase is a tough thing to do. Most of the elderly and young children in the building are trapped. Construction in all hallways and most units has been going on for 2 months now, with workers using and holding both elevators (when they work) or the one when the other is broken, and preventing tenants from using them.

Here's the point I'm getting to: The workers left big gaping holes in the ceilings in the hallways. We have video footage and pictures of dozens of cockroaches streaming out of these holes. Now, unfortunately, we have a severe infestation in our apartment since they are coming in from the hallway, through the cracks in the door. Our cats sit in front of the door and hunt them all night long, but they can't keep up. We have asked for pest control a month ago. They advised it would take 2 weeks. We called after 2 weeks. They advised that they said no such thing and that it would be another 2-3 weeks before they can get around to it. That's almost a month and a half since we've asked for pest control. We are still waiting with no news and being brushed off. With every passing day, we are killing more and more roaches. Sleeping with lights on doesn't help. They are everywhere. (Please note that we are very clean people.) We have 24 roach traps, which we bought ourselves, in and around the apartment. We have pet friendly roach powder which isn't working. Our next step is to buy caulking and sealing up every crack and hole we can find. Unfortunately, we have to pay for all of this ourselves as our landlords don't seem to be concerned with the problem. Our efforts aren't effective though. Roaches are everywhere!! You can seem them running down the hallway outside the apartment. Thankfully we have not noticed any bedbugs yet, but waking up with a cockroach in your hair isn't pleasant either. DO NOT MOVE HERE. The new landlords are renovating, true, but they do not listen to tenants or care about safety. The elevators are still in service (when working) and still dropping multiple floors with people trapped in them. Mgt is condescending when approached and rarely gets anything done. Before Transglobe, I'll admit that Metcap was horrible, but at least when Kevin (the building manager at the time) was called, he showed up within the hour to help fix the problem. The lesser of two evils.

Again, DO NOT MOVE HERE for your own safety.

ys later, still half alive -- both of which I put in the garbage and down the chute, right away. Last week my cat was making a lot of noise -- he is normally quiet -- he had apparently just found a dessicated, mummified mouse carcass, med.-sized -- and I don't know where he found it, but it was somewhere here in the apt. Anyway, I am moving out in next 2-3 weeks -- DO NOT RENT IN ANY BUILDING MANAGED BY METCAP LIVING -- as per CTV, Ch. 8 Rogers, the News, on Aug. 18th, 2010, at 6:00 p.m. -- this landord was voted worst in Toronto, and was awarded the "Golden Cockroach" award. also, the award was taken, in a tenant protest march, over to MetCap head office on Richmond St. E. -- but MCap staff locked the doors to keep the tenants out. Yes, the elevators are always broken down here -- or we have no water, or no laundry room, or -- it's always something. Re. no elevators -- people upstairs are totally imprisoned, with no elevators, especially the older tenants -- and there could easily be a medical crisis, with paramedics not being able to get upstairs, with no elevators, where someone could actually die -- but elevator service is not considered an "essential service" under the Residential Tenancies Act!!! -- no doubt because the landlords fought to keep that out of the essential services list! So, get yourself out of 15 Dundonald, as soon as you can, and/or never move in, in the first place! 1 bedroom apts., with or without bugs/mice, are going for $1,269, to over $1,300 now -- in a bldg. that is falling down, with dirt and chipped & peeling paint everywhere. Also, MetCap is v. controlling -- the supers (called "Bldg. Mgrs." by MCap) are the "wardens" and the tenants are the "inmates" --get it???? Note: Go to the Landlord & Tenant Board, 79 St Clair E., and fill out an application, for the previous 12 months, to get a rent rebate, because of all of the services that MetCap didn't provide, and maintenance that wasn't done. Look into the T1, T2, T3 and T6 claim applications that you are permitted to submit. (It costs $45. to submit all of them at once.) T6 is for lack of proper maintenance (always the case at 15 Dundonald St., now, with not enough staff), and the other three forms cover things like being harassed by the landlord/staff, and requesting a rent reduction --so your monthly rent is reduced to some lower amount every month, at least until the repairs, or whatever, are done. You can also apply to have your monthly rent paid into the Board's account -- and held there until the landlord complies, and does all the outstanding repairs and maintenance. Okay???? If you don't make all these claims, and do these actions, where applicable, MetCap then gets away with it -- again and again and again!!!!! Also, support the tenant protest group from the other 2 MetCap bldgs. in Parkdale, and their "Golden Cockroach" award! The CTV newsroom can give you the contact names and tel. nos. of organizers of this protest group, so you can try to get support from these fellow tenants, and to give them suppport, also, when asked, I would suggest. I have made my claims -- T1, T2 T3, and T6 -- to the Board and will try to get as many as possible of these other Parkdale tenants up to my claim hearings at the Board, and have them up there for support, and I hope to fill the room with them!!!!! Normally, MCap's lawyer is there, the property manager, and the super. couple, and possible more MCap staffthan that -- and I am there alone, trying my best to stand up to these people, and the adjudicator. (Note: Lawyers do not want to get into lengthy cases on a Legal Aid Certificate -- they only will take quick hearing work re. the Board -- as they do not get paid enough to take on big claims, or long claims, like my claims are - but, I have been doing pretty well, so far.) If anyone in a MCap bldg. wants my help with claims, or support at a hearing, after reading this, just leave me a message here with your contact info.

problems. so i suggest dont move there.

le bites. Be cautious if you plan to move to 15 Dundonald.

ple say you can simply store your stuff up high, but I have seen these tenacious little bugs climb up walls, climb on ceilings, hide in mattresses, hide in shoes, etc. You can try killing them with HOT steam, iron your clothes, iron your sheets, iron the mattress directly. I use tape as well to grab any eggs, and I find bleach works pretty well at killing them.

I would avoid 15 Dundonald unless you like having to battle a bedbug problem, and like having to wait around forever when you are down to a single working elevator.

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