Anonymous on 05/25/2012
I have been living in the building for over a year,and since the owner had addressed the bed bug issue,they have not returned,and have not noticed any bugs whatsoever.or heard any complaints..the building is always kept spotless and the owner seems very friendly and responds quickly to any issues,,eg,my door wasnt closing properly,,,was taken care of in 48 hours,,,
Anonymous on 05/11/2012
Noticed some apartments here are up for rent.So-many-bugs. And they're increasing rent prices too.
Roaches, bed bugs, carpet beetles and probably fleas. The problem is so presistant in the building that even if you get a spray, it's back in full swing two or three weeks later. and yes, the landlord WILL blame you.
I told the super (before he lit his apt on fire. Obviously he was fired, but that he was here so long shows a serious lack of judgement from the building owner) that I thought t
here might be fleas in teh building and he said "Nope. No fleas in this building". Clearly the standards here are high........
They put some lights on the building and waxed the floors in the hallways. That's what they mean by "renovated" in the ads for this place.
We've given up asking for sprays since they do such a crappy job and only spray one unit. I wash my floors and baseboards with bleach everyday. I wash bedding three times a week and have to run a lint roller over the entire bed several times a night. This is no way to live. We are covered in bites and miserable. Just waiting for the day we can give notice....and then have to spend several hundred dollars replacing furniture and several extra hours scouring and laundrying every-single-item before packing it in air tight containers, which cost A LOT more than cardboard boxes.
DON'T LIVE HERE!!!!!! IT'S AWFUL!!!!
Anonymous on 04/23/2012
DO NOT MOVE HERE!!!!!! Save yourself from the headache and the most horrid living experience of your life.
The landlords are absolutely shady and only care about getting their monthly rent cheques. I moved in here Sept of 2011 with completely brand new furniture. After a couple of months I noticed awful red marks on my body but never occurred to me that it was bedbugs. Lets say the night my boyfriend and I discovered we had bed bugs was not pretty. We got a spraying and then also a second on
e two weeks later. Unfortunately, last week I found them on one of my walls AGAIN! Our unit had to get a THIRD spray, however, no one else in the building got sprayed. I also found out they have roach problems in some of the units.
They clearly have not got the issue rectified or under control. Living here has made my life a miserable. Its so bad that my boyfriend and I are breaking our lease early so we can get the hell out of here!
i know the truth. on 03/14/2012
Just so people are aware, the land lord has recently discovered the building is red flagged for bed bugs here on the site and people have been venting their experiences, warning others to stay clear.
to combat this they've been commenting saying how good the building is and how there aren't any issues.
believe me. there are issues.
the people watching over the building are lazy as ever, they won't fix anything, they lie to tenants, they blame tenants, etc.. etc..
this place is a C
URSE.
do yourself a favor and live somewhere else.
anonymous. on 03/05/2012
This is truly one of the best buildings in the Bathurst and St. Clair area. All the units have been renovated and the building is kept top class.
Anonymous on 02/10/2012
We moved in last summer.Shortly after moving here, they did a "preventative spray" in the apartment because our neighbour had them. Didn't have any problems with bed bugs until just before christmas/new years.
I started being covered in bites. It took a week for my boyfriend to believe me,and start noticing bites on himself. We contacted the landlady and it took a WEEK for her to get someone in here to spray for bed bugs.I've never actually SEEN a bug, but I feel little pinches on me all the
time and there are sometimes mysetrious black specks on my sheets. In the past month I have easily burned through $150 in laundry money trying to get this under control. I can't even believe what a bug filled hole this is! I haven't had a decent sleep in weeks,I feel dirty just sitting on my furniture.
They use the same company to spray all the time and while they certainly do a great job of moving stuff around,I'm not sure they actually do much spraying.
I also had a roach problem in December. I complained. A lot and just under a week later someone came to spray. One month later I found a roach in the sink, I wrote the landlord and she never responded. She dosen't care about the tennants just so long as the rent keeps coming in.
DO NOT MOVE IN HERE!!!!
Anonymous on 10/18/2011
The Landlord is always blaming someone else and doesn't do anything to fix the issues ... avoid the building.
Full of Regret. on 09/29/2011
I was put in a terrible situation right after moving in. My girlfriend found bites all over her body, we searched high and low for signs of the bugs but found nothing at first. Then finally I found one of them, just walking by me. Then later, another, and another, and another, another, another. A woman moved in around the same time as us, she found them too. We noticed a number of mattresses put outside the building, some said "warning bed bugs" all over them.
The landlord was VERY disrespec
tful. He blamed us, the previous tenant, someone who used to live in the building, the woman down the hall. Anyone he could. He did pay to get the treatment done, but it became obvious he knew there was a problem before renting it to us. Neighbours told us horror stories about the man. I was very concerned that this was going to completely derail my life. I lost sleep (sleeping on the kitchen counter), I had to take time off work which cost me a lot of money. In the end I eventually got in touch with the actual building OWNER. He allowed me to break my lease and seemed upset with his buildings management, even apologizing on their behalf.
In the end. It all cost me a small fortune replacing my bed, clothes, linnens, paying for a second move and so many other things.
Do yourself a favor. Don't move in here. Avoid it at all costs. Even if the building isn't having a problem right now, if it ever comes into another problem you can rest assured it will be AWFUL. For example, during all this we also found cockroaches (something we were promised the building did not have). No matter who I spoke with, they told me "oh, you're the only one who has it. we can't do anything until we hear more people have it". Waiting until a small problem is a big problem is a terrible way to manage a building. Turns out every floor had bed bugs, every floor had cockroaches.
I moved out around the same time as several other people. I've never looked back. I hated my time there, I hated the building management.
Anonymous on 09/29/2011
I've lived here for over a year....no bed bugs.....no problem....cute building.....
Anonymous on 08/01/2011
Irresponsible owner. Bed bugs. Stay away!
Anonymous on 05/26/2011
This property is owned or managed by the same guy who is a broker at Prudential Grange Hall Realty. Good luck - he's been very rude to me. I wouldn't deal with him again - not for all the money in the world. Don't expect him to help you.
Anonymous on 10/04/2010
The owner has not been cooperative with me either. Although I do not have any bedbugs, I am a little scared I might get them.
When the owner was contacted he brushed it off like the tenants who are complaining about bedbugs were only trying to get out of paying rent. I wasn't impressed by his reaction on this matter.
The couch (on which it was written bedbugs) has been outside for the past month. I have continuously asked that it be removed. Nothing has been done.
Anonymous on 09/22/2010
We also live here. We actually just found out that our landlord has been lying to potential new tenants. They seem to think that the problem is a figment of our imaginations, despite the fact that several tenants have caught bugs in jars (including ourselves).
So supposedly they sprayed the entire building and spent thousands of dollars to 'put our minds at ease'.
We also know that they did not spray the entire building on that day. So, the treatment could have all been a waste of money
and efforts.
Be very cautious when signing a lease at this building as the landlords are just out for your money. After knowing about our bedbug situation we had not received a follow up phone call from the landlords,which shows a complete lack of regard for their building and client's well being.
Anonymous on 09/16/2010
Moved into the apartment and two days after being there found bites. Didn't know if they came from the move or the building had them. Then found out that another tenant who moved in around the same time had them right away as well. Most likely in the building before hand.
The landlord DID NOT say before moving in that there was a problem with bedbugs. Nor did they tell about the cockroach problem that they were getting treated days after moving in.
The landlord payed for the treatment bu
t threatened that he would kick tenants out if rent was not paid and that he could make way more money off of the building. He (Joe Moriello) did not call back to check to see if they were gone or not. He was extremely disrespectful in the way he handled the situation.
Recently noticed bites again and found a couch outside saying 'bed bugs' on it. They treated the whole building this week. They are supposed to come back in two weeks for a follow up treatment but haven't heard word of it yet.
I would recommend NOT moving into this building for a few more months (to a year) until the problem has been solved. Its not worth the stress.
Summer 2010
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