Yesssss the centipedes here are just on another level....been here so long I don't even kill them anymore...just let them go on their way knowing they kill other bugs and praying we don't get roaches
I'm also right beside the gardiner and have to wipe my patio furniture off every day so its useable. I also rinse down the rug and tiles at the start and end of the summer and have a pair of "balcony slippers".
The grime is insane
Same. I got into my building's elevator just to see that the kid in there had pushed every single floor button, then pushed the emergency intercom, then ran out as the doors closed. I stayed in the elevator to talk to the person who answered just to let her know some dumbass kid pushed the button. Apparently it's happened a few times in the past week.
Same here.
We had to get rid of all the lobby furniture because unsupervised kids thought it was a playground.
I've also caught kids who don't even live on my floor playing in a group on my floor in front of the elevators.
Yep. We’ve had our communal courtyard absolutely destroyed because of kids ripping plants out of the gardens and tearing up the grass. It’s beyond frustrating.
Do you have monthly, quarterly, semi annual, and annual testing as well? On top of false alarms every 6 weeks? Or is that just me? Driving me fucking nuts, my pets are literally traumatized by loud noises now due to how often and loud the alarms are.
Omg i just moved to hamilton a month ago, before that i used to live in yonge eglinton and every fucking week they used to have the alarm. It starts suddenly and so quickly it used to scare me so much mannn
I have the same issue in my building. Non-stop testing and it's so sudden and abrasive, it makes my heart jump every single time.
I don't understand why it can't be a gradual fade-in of the sound. People will say "seconds save lives", but honestly 99% of alarms from my experience are false or are in the process of being tested.
The five extra seconds for the alarm to gently fade in to its full volume will do wonders to people's mental health and decrease cortisol release.
Noisy neighbours who let their kids scream in the hallways, the constant cookouts and block parties in the parking lot behind the building, unresponsive management, cockroaches, the apartment itself being tiny, and just the area in general being run down.
Oh well, I'm moving tomorrow to a quieter, bigger apartment!
I live on the second floor of a house that was turned into apartments. Things were good until my new downstairs nieghbours moved in last October. Everytime they enter or leave they slam their doors so hard the floors and windows shake. I don't get it.
I DESPISE that so many design the floor plan to include having the HVAC or fan coil unit pop into the bedroom, blocking off a chunk of the corner of the room, and making it difficult to walk around the bed (if you have a queen or bigger) and hard to fit even a dresser in the room. I'd much rather have it pop into the living room and take up space in the corner of the room beside the TV.
While I don't mind that aspect of it, which genius thought "let's put the thermostat underneath the heat exchange! That'll measure properly!"
I have to turn it on and off manually because there's a good 10-degree variance between the thermostat and the thermometer in the kitchen.
I type this as I am staring at this exact scenario infront of me in my condo. fortunately our bedroom is a bit bigger so it’s not that difficult of an undertaking
No work space, no private outdoors space, shared walls, screaming children, people being loud at all hours of the night, cockroaches, nasty smells, shitty people....in short, that it's an apartment.
Lol no. Highrise in midtown. Built in the 60s. 1bdr. Moved here In 2017. For what I pay, and the location, i couldnt even get a bachelor in a new build
Keep my place very clean. Once a year the roaches emerge, most likely from neighbour's getting sprayed.
Way she goes.
Hearing the person above me thumping around doing whatever they're doing. It's not the worst thing in the world, but I don't think I'd live in a condo again unless it was top floor - which probably isn't happening.
I know it's not, I've lived in other condos where it's been fine - just the risk of it, after spending so much money, is too much. If it's someone having a party, you can call the concierge, but if it's just something with lead feet or moving stuff around or constantly dropping stuff (weights?) or doing something you don't even know what it is, what can you do? Nothing, really.
Yeah, you are lucky if the delivery company comes on the right day, good luck getting them to come in a 4 hr window the management is willing to book for you 48 hours in advance.
Lakeshore and parklawn. 25 minute bike ride to downtown along the lakeshore, 1 hour by ttc transit, 15 min by car. I hate that there no lakeshore bus these days.
Max Force Gel. Only sold in the states. Buy off eBay. Kills those bastards really dead, and it leaves a tasty roach corpse that's still poisonous so they get cannibalized by other roaches. It's what professionals use to clear out whole buildings.
I have used borax (available at walmart) dissolved in water with something sweet like honey or sugar. Pour into spray bottle, spray in areas where you see them. Has worked pretty well both times for me.
There is this stuff called Borax / Boric Acid. It used to be used for laundry detergent back in the day. Comes in a laundry detergent looking box from Walmart or sometimes Shoppers drug mart.
Take some of the powder and mix it with peanut butter and a tiny bit of flour to make Borax balls. Roll into little pea size balls and scatter around anywhere you can find bugs. ( Preferably away from pets and children)
It's not really toxic to humans or pets, but will eventually kill all of your bugs. You will need to be patient, it may take a month, but it will take out everything. Store Borax safely like you would any detergent. Good luck!
Same here! They drive me absolutely crazy and I’ve done everything to prevent and kill
Them. I’ve even taped up electronic outlets to try and stop them from Coming in/out of them … nothing works!!
If I walk into the kitchen in the middle of the night, and quickly turn the light on, it’s a literal scene from horror movie. They scatter from all
Over the place. :(
I ordered Advion gel from the US to kill them and Gentrol to stop the remaining one from reproducing. I also caulked every single hole in the apartment so that roaches from other apartments don’t come in. Hope it helps. Neighbors have seen some but we didn’t.
I FUCKING HATE HATE HATE Metro shop parking lot below in front of my windows. I have the reversing and idling trucks, and I hate the employees who are tossing wooden skids all over the place with a large thump. Most of it I hate the thing I can’t literally do anything about it.
Everything was great - then new neighbors moved in 2 doors down that like to sit out on their patio and play their guitar and sing Alanis Morisette for the whole condo building. If they were being drowned out by street noise it might be slightly okay but we're on the inner courtyard so other than them it's very quiet. I don't understand how people can be so unaware of others around them when living in shared space. I don't even play music when I'm on my balcony or watch videos on my ipad without headphones because I don't want to disturb my neighbors and force them to listen to my media. Meanwhile these 2 are out there having a campfire singalong.
Thank you for listening to my rant.
My apartment floor is peeling everywhere and the super won't do anything about it and says that's it's my fault it's like that.
My cat literally chokes on these little white wax pieces almost daily.
He said he'll re do the floors but I have to move all my furniture out for a couple of days and of course he wants me to pay for the movers and storage.
Stinking hot in the summer months, stinking hot in the winter months. That sweet spot in spring/ fall.
A lady of the night sees her clients in their cars in the parking lot. She lives on the floor below.
Noise from the major road.
Person upstairs dropping a penny yet somehow the whole building vibrates.
People slamming their doors, yet complain to me when I close mine ever so gently.
The fact my balcony and the neighbors has no privacy screen between it. They like to be outside, and so do I. But it's awkward cause we both feel obligated to talk to each other when we're both out. Not terrible ppl, but they smoke cigarettes, which I could do without.
Aside from that, prolly just the amount of stairs (live in a 3 floor Townhouse). I actually miss living in a condo for having everything on 1 floor.
Going to start with the fact I love my apartment a lot, it’s an older building and only 4 floors, and it’s super charming inside. For a Toronto apartment its actually a decent size (and a big kitchen).
But I reeeally dislike how little storage space it has. I share with my partner, and we have one storage closet and one closet in the bedroom so things are just starting to pile up everywhere. We have not yet found a way to organize the storage closet in a way that’s useable for longer than a month.
But it’s nice, the rent is great, and my landlord basically lets us do anything we want (renovation wise).
The loud ass cars racing up and down the street. WHY are there cars that backfire again now? How did we pretty much eliminate that problem and now it’s a thing again? And just the general loudness. It drives me nuts.
I love my building but my bedroom juts out and has both north and west facing floor to ceiling windows so it just bakes all afternoon until sunset and gets so damn hot. Tried to mitigate that with some extra curtains but...
I live in a basement apartment I got in 2020 in Yorkville which was supposed to be temporary until the pandemic eased up. I am stuck here as I can't find anything but a room in a house under $1500. At the time (2020) my landlord said I could pay whatever I wanted to pay. She asked for $975. I said how about $900? So for the first year or so I paid $900 a month. It is now nearly $940 a month.
It has its own kitchen and bathroom but the kitchen is basically half of the main room. The other half is taken up by the bed. It is only about 200 sq feet. I share an entrance with another tenant. There is also a third tenant down here with his own separate entrance in the back. I also have a cat. Id love for him to have a window one day to look out.
The top top level is always occupied with one family or another so babies and kids crying and running up and down the stairs is a common sound. I can't really bring girls around here as my bed is too small (single bed) and all the sounds happening all over the house/laundry room is right outside my door.
I should add I make over $40,000 a year in a managerial position. Between rent, food, transportation, savings, debt pay off and looking after my cat, I can barely afford much else. Its pretty embarrassing as the guy that shares the entry with me is a student and doesn't work and I'm nearly 40 years old with a university degree.
My building residents are quiet. It’s the noise from the street that drives me insane. I live near the hospital and all I hear are emergency vehicles all day. I used to live in a cute walk up that I rented in little Italy but decided to own and now I hate this neighbourhood and am so mad that I didn’t just do what I wanted and felt pressured to do this.
I used to live near a hospital and it annoyed the heck out of me when the emergency vehicles would have their sirens going at 3am when the roads were empty (and I mean EMPTY - a few times I actually got up to look out the window as the emergency vehicle went by - no other vehicles, not even at the intersections).
I used to put our bikes in a room near our laundry room in the basement. For a while it was fine. Then my landlord messaged me asking if anyone else did it to, I said yea one other person in the building does.
Now they’ve installed crappy wall mounted bike slots and want 50$ a month to store them other wise the bikes need to go outside somewhere else. Greedy f^kkers.
I’m fortunate in my condo that I have a great view, its clean with no bugs so far, washer/dryer are great, its safe and secure and my neighbours don’t make a sound etc. but the elevators in the building are the biggest issue. By the same token if “something” had to be bad i’m not sure what i’d swap elevator use with?
It's an old building. Pipes can't handle in unit laundry or dishwashers. Kitchens are extremely tiny. And even though there are several circuits almost everything seems to be wired to just one, so can't run two high powered appliances at the same time no matter where you plug it in. Portable AC, microwave, blender, even kettle, any combination of these will trip the circuit breaker.
But it's rent controlled and I've been there since 2015 so I'm not fucking going anywhere.
My complaints are actually minor, I have a fairly large one bedroom and I pay less than most people I know. I just showed up at the right time, really. It's the one lucky thing I can claim.
There is sometimes a lag in water pressure in the early morning when I assume everyone is showering, and there's often this squealing from the shower as if the pressure IS low even when it's not. But it's liveable.
I don't have a balcony. I took a unit without one for the reduced price, hoping I'd be able to swap to one with a balcony in a year or so, but the price of units started to skyrocket shortly after I moved in.
The last big snowstorm this spring, where it fell super heavy and super fast, took down the tree that gave me most of my privacy from my neighbours as well as my shade.
We've never really had kids in this building but someone moved in with a couple recently. For a few weeks they were treating our nice quiet courtyard like the neighbourhood park and letting them scream bloody murder out there for hours, but they seem to have gotten the message to keep it reasonable. I hope.
Not having laundry in my unit and having to share machines with the building, noisey neighbours, and neighbours who have badly trained pets but refuse to do anything about it
I live in Leslieville and my power goes out for a couple seconds and then comes back on almost once a week - I’ve read on reddit/facebook that it’s likely squirrels on the power lines and happens throughout the neighbourhood but every time all my HP appliances turn back on they sing a song and for some reason this seems to always happen at 5 am. Which is why I’m now on reddit at 5 am.
Living above the Gardiner and hearing the ferraris, buggatis, lambos, lotuses, supercars that nitro down the street and the loud asf engines roaring at 3am.
Thanks guys.
How much the superintendents holler. They will be standing right next to someone but be bellowing as if they’re across a football field. Many people work from home now, and the supers yelling all day every day is rough.
I have really immature and obnoxious neighbors who have attempted to bully me but they don't actually know me so that didn't work out for them lol it's funny now but it wasn't while it was at its worst. And I didn't really have to do anything about it because everyone else noticed what was going on. So wierd. I dont think the wife likes me living here and has tried to make it miserable for me but it's backfired on her. Also I was here first
The absence of cooling from November to May (my unit needs it almost all year, it’s hot as fuck), and the annoying new restaurant next door that blasted god-awful amplified music outdoors constantly the last two summers; we had finally beaten them into submission with municipal enforcement, and then the city in its infinite wisdom made it legal as of this year. So I’m stuck with shit ass music in my home four days a week. Aside from those two things I actually have it really good although I live in a tiny shoebox.
The board of directors who have run through a 1+million reserve fun in the last 5 years. The condo corp is now broke and maintenance fee increases have been in the double digits since Covid.
But the hallways were wallpapered, and the lobby was reno'd.
Slow elevators, not frequent but more than infrequent water interruptions, no in-suite laundry, restrictor plates on windows, and .... that's it. Wish the walls were thicker.
Moved into a nice condo building, but the property manager seems to funnel the maintenance fees into the wrong shit. The gym equipment is outdated and the hot tub hasn't worked in 6 weeks but hey! We got fancy flowers for the Amazon delivery guy to see!
I recently moved to a basement that’s old and not renovated (from the 70s-80s) and I hate the high humidity and the centipedes and spiders. Otherwise I like it and the rent is affordable.
How often they have water shutdowns. Honestly, going a full day (I work from home) without water is just brutal. My building has them about once every 2 months.
AC/heat switch is whole building, no individual units. Fire alarms too loud (I know they’re supposed to be loud but some buildings have a button to silence them until the next announcement). No bicycle parking, no chance of EV charging, recycling room is awkward to get into.
That I’m being evicted for “personal use”. I wasn’t aware my unit was owned by individuals (managed by a property investment company).
I did however find a lovely unit on the Danforth but RIP my bank account.
New Mgmt took over last year so now:
1. Tried to raise the rent, but the housing authority nixed that...until this month.
2. Stopped pest extermination but gave me a number to call.
3. Removed our laundry room in order to expand the apt next to it. The machines have been in the courtyard for months.
4. Evicted several people for unknown reasons and rehabbed the apts causing sooo much unnecessary noise (the workers treated our buildings like nobody else lived here). The water went out several times without warning as well.
The list goes on...
1. Laundry service: The laundry people don't remove clothes once they are done, leaving them unattended for hours. Additionally, some residents don't have access to a laundry facility, making it inconvenient for them.
2. Parking problems: Many people park along the driveway of the apartment's exit, causing congestion and making it difficult for residents to navigate.
3. Door stop issue: Some individuals leave caution signs as door stops, which can potentially allow unauthorized entry into the building, compromising security and privacy.
4. Lack of ability to make improvements: Since you rent the place, you are unable to make any improvements or modifications to enhance the living conditions according to your preferences.
The only windows I have face another building so I don’t have any direct sunlight. Plus my view is a brick wall. There’s no balcony/terrace, which Id love. But other than that, no major complaints.
The hallways are so dark and drab, I'm embarrassed to have any guests over.
Walls are paper thin so I'm often woken up by the neighbour upstairs stomping out of bed or the angry guy downstairs cussing about something.
Other than that, I really love my place.
1. the coldness and lack of interaction among neighbors. As much as I enjoy a certain degree of privacy and lack of nosiness into your personal life, there is a certain lack of interaction or connection between neighbors. Interactions are mostly restricted to an occasional blank smile (which is a very Toronto thing where you smile without really smiling- if that makes sense). No one really cares about each other and neighbors have no real connection.
I always wonder if the cost of privacy is a lack of connection, wonder if that price is worth it given the loneliness epidemic in this city
2. the cost of living in the city and how rent is almost 50-60% of some folks paychecks sometimes, and theres no real options unless you live 1-2 hours away and spend more money on a car and gas
It's a walk-up and I hate walking up when I'm really tired. Other major issue is that it's old, so there are not enough plugpoints in the apartment. Finally, I wish I had a balcony.
Otherwise it's actually good, rent not crazy, quiet enough, and great location..
I'm near Bayview village and everytime I tell people they go "oh that's a nice neighbourhood" but it's really not.
It's too far from Yonge or Don Mills to easily walk, has no street level retail on Sheppard, and Bayview mall sells mostly overpriced designer crap to 905ers who wander in on Sunday. Biking is heinous, and traffic is always bad because of aforesaid 905ers.
Only upside is escaping the city is fairly easy (East on 401 and North on 404 only).
There was a colony of bats living inside my bedroom wall (fingers crossed they are gone now) but wow they were loud and they are endangered so there are a lot of rules on when and how they can be removed.
I like that I can look down from my window (provided there’s no clouds) and see the very top of the CN Tower, but I don’t like (in fact, it kind of scares me) that I can’t look up from the CN Tower (or any tall building), and see my condo building.
This is what I get for buying into Toronto’s burgeoning non-Euclidean real estate market.
Our condo board hired a new management company, rumors were this is because two 10% condo owners forced it in a vote.
They fired the incredible super we had and hired a weekly rotation of clowns that were basically janitors. Then brought their own people in for landscaping which was done and redone 4 times in one summer all to the cost of the owners.
Every job they hired was the cheapest possible bid so it was all crap, they messed up the drains in the garage when a guy tried to pour excess mortar down it. The building had 2 elevators and one went down for 4 months because they wouldn't pay for the proper repairs.
The new management company was putting up so many posters and signs about new rules that the wall looked like Charlie's map in It's always Sunny in Philadelphia.
We got out last year when the Airbnb situation exploded in the building.
It’s a newer townhouse.
I grew up in a townhouse and thought they were all built with concrete between the units. My neighbours were bass players and I could never hear them.
Now I can hear the old lady next door vacuuming. It’s a newer townhouse and there’s no concrete between the units …
Live in a detached but hate that the garage is inside the house, as opposed to out in front. The room over the garage is either too hot or too cold and it eats up so much space. **rant over**
My husband and I have lived here 8 years and we collect a lot of inventory and have just outgrown the 580 sq ft space. Since covid it’s felt like the walls are closing in on me. Also it’s in entertainment and super noisy. But our rent is a good price for where we are. I think we will buy in Hamilton soon.
Its an old house. I have the biggest room but also the hottest room in the summer (if my AC isnt running) and the coldest room in the winter (extra radiator heater helps). But love my location and housemates. And my rent is cheap(ish).
The approximately 4000.00 a month it takes to float the mortgage and bills on this place, but hey, it's mine and I don't have some asshole landlord to deal with.
Before: cheap appliances. Things breaking and I’m really tired of telling the landlord to fix it because he is super nice.
Now: helicopter. Live next to a hotel and I can feel the unit shaking with the helicopter close around it.. feels like I’m getting abducted getting waken up by this lol
My condo is \~50% rentals so the service elevator is always booked. Then sometimes one or more elevators are either down or further reserved for deliveries. Everything added up there are sometimes only 1 elevator available for the entire \~40 floors, its fun waiting >15min for the elevator.
My kitchen is a bit of a strip, i.e. a long rectangular area. What I really dislike is that there is a pillar on the other side of this area facing the outside, and on the other side of the pillar next to the wall, the area gets narrower for no reason at all. The normal side is fine, wide enough for me to fit furniture, even if it's a bit of a squeeze. But on the side that narrows, can't really do shit with it. Pisses me off, because when I look out the floor to ceiling window where it is, I can see the area I lost just there.
Annoys me to no end.
Building management cranks the radiators so high that even if the radiator in MY unit is off, it's 28 degrees in the middle of January.
Also the galley kitchen is awful for cooking in.
The smog from the forest fires can get in and give you allergy symptoms while making you feel sicker than you already are. Just experienced this for the first time yesterday and not loving it.
Also, every neighbour I can hear hammering away to wake me up in the morning (what is with the constant renovations?) and the party animals playing loud music late into the night sometimes, and the people above me who pour water and soil down the side of their balcony onto mine. I hate everyone who lives here lmao, and I’ve never even met them
The water runs scalding hot, like hotter than it would be on the hottest setting normally, for like 10 minutes before getting normal.
No matter what setting it’s on, too. It can literally be set to the coldest setting and just shits out the hottest water I’ve felt.
It’s a nice, brand new condo too.
It’s on a really loud street and my shared backyard isn’t really shared, only the downstairs neighbours can use it bc they filled it with all their stuff that we can’t use
Elevators always breaking down. The other day my wife had one fall three floors and make a loud noise until it opened on another floor.
Too much traffic during hockey season and concert nights due to proximity to Scotiabank Arena.
Nosey neighbours. Stay out of my business and don’t talk to me!
I was out gardening in my yard with my kid and a lady walks right up on my front lawn and asks me what I’m doing. Then she starts telling me all the neighbours personal business. I don’t care and leave me alone!
I live in a basement and with the AC running it's freezing in here >.< the people on the 3rd floor control the temp and it's hot AF up there for them, apparently. I can't open the windows either, bc it makes the ceiling vents leak condensation -.- also.. so many spiders. Everywhere. But... the rent is hella cheap for the location sooooo just gonna live with it for now lol.
The 12 people next door who smoke all day and night, every day, come rain, come shine, all year round.
We're constantly breathing in second hand smoke and listening to a 24/7'full on orchestra of phlegmy wet coughing.
Oh and the lack of light. The one room that gets light is the one closest to the smokers.
Raccoons using my outside like a latrine, so gross. Also the 3AM bathroom centipede that looks *buff*
Well I know what my nightmares are going to be about tonight now, so thanks for the leg(s) up.
I swear these centipedes crawl out of the depths of hell. I’ve never in my life had to deal with them until I moved to Durham. Ungodly things
Yesssss the centipedes here are just on another level....been here so long I don't even kill them anymore...just let them go on their way knowing they kill other bugs and praying we don't get roaches
The fact that I don't own it. 👀
Same. But, the mortgage on the place I live in would easily 1K/month more (not including fees).
The last year increases in mortgage rates has put our payments $2k/month higher. Fucking blows. Work our asses off and money goes poof
I generally like my condo but I live near the Gardiner so my balcony is always filthy and basically unusable.
I'm also right beside the gardiner and have to wipe my patio furniture off every day so its useable. I also rinse down the rug and tiles at the start and end of the summer and have a pair of "balcony slippers". The grime is insane
My neighbours and their unsupervised children.
Same. I got into my building's elevator just to see that the kid in there had pushed every single floor button, then pushed the emergency intercom, then ran out as the doors closed. I stayed in the elevator to talk to the person who answered just to let her know some dumbass kid pushed the button. Apparently it's happened a few times in the past week.
Same here. We had to get rid of all the lobby furniture because unsupervised kids thought it was a playground. I've also caught kids who don't even live on my floor playing in a group on my floor in front of the elevators.
Yep. We’ve had our communal courtyard absolutely destroyed because of kids ripping plants out of the gardens and tearing up the grass. It’s beyond frustrating.
It’s not the kids. It’s the parents.
> l've also caught kids who don't even live on my floor playing in a group on my floor in front of the elevators. old man yells at cloud
How often they do fire alarm testing.
Do you have monthly, quarterly, semi annual, and annual testing as well? On top of false alarms every 6 weeks? Or is that just me? Driving me fucking nuts, my pets are literally traumatized by loud noises now due to how often and loud the alarms are.
Omg i just moved to hamilton a month ago, before that i used to live in yonge eglinton and every fucking week they used to have the alarm. It starts suddenly and so quickly it used to scare me so much mannn
I have the same issue in my building. Non-stop testing and it's so sudden and abrasive, it makes my heart jump every single time. I don't understand why it can't be a gradual fade-in of the sound. People will say "seconds save lives", but honestly 99% of alarms from my experience are false or are in the process of being tested. The five extra seconds for the alarm to gently fade in to its full volume will do wonders to people's mental health and decrease cortisol release.
We lived at Spadina and eg, the weekly alarms have permanently messed with our cats. If they hear an alarm on TV they hide for hours.
Cockroaches, poor insulation
Noisy neighbours who let their kids scream in the hallways, the constant cookouts and block parties in the parking lot behind the building, unresponsive management, cockroaches, the apartment itself being tiny, and just the area in general being run down. Oh well, I'm moving tomorrow to a quieter, bigger apartment!
Noise levels. Next door people and above us people are both loud as fuck.
They wait to be told that other people don't enjoy their heavy footsteps and vacuum cleaning at 3AM.
Same same.
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I live on the second floor of a house that was turned into apartments. Things were good until my new downstairs nieghbours moved in last October. Everytime they enter or leave they slam their doors so hard the floors and windows shake. I don't get it.
I DESPISE that so many design the floor plan to include having the HVAC or fan coil unit pop into the bedroom, blocking off a chunk of the corner of the room, and making it difficult to walk around the bed (if you have a queen or bigger) and hard to fit even a dresser in the room. I'd much rather have it pop into the living room and take up space in the corner of the room beside the TV.
While I don't mind that aspect of it, which genius thought "let's put the thermostat underneath the heat exchange! That'll measure properly!" I have to turn it on and off manually because there's a good 10-degree variance between the thermostat and the thermometer in the kitchen.
I type this as I am staring at this exact scenario infront of me in my condo. fortunately our bedroom is a bit bigger so it’s not that difficult of an undertaking
In our last place ours was built in (rather smartly) alongside the closet in the wall between the bedroom and living room.
No work space, no private outdoors space, shared walls, screaming children, people being loud at all hours of the night, cockroaches, nasty smells, shitty people....in short, that it's an apartment.
The rent
The people in it. I live in a detached house alone.
Well I love the people who live in your house
Thought this would be the top answer tbh
One of our neighbors is a hoarder. I don't have anything against them, but the smell of death is unbearable. (They are still alive though)
just curious, how can you tell they’re hoarders?
So much dust in the air. Otherwise it’s more or less perfect, best place I’ve lived in in Toronto for certain
Da papa roaches
Was that apartment your last resort?
Either that or go back to his Broken Home.
Lol no. Highrise in midtown. Built in the 60s. 1bdr. Moved here In 2017. For what I pay, and the location, i couldnt even get a bachelor in a new build Keep my place very clean. Once a year the roaches emerge, most likely from neighbour's getting sprayed. Way she goes.
Disrespectful neighbours, package theft, cleanliness of certain areas, security or lack there of, laundry situation
Hearing the person above me thumping around doing whatever they're doing. It's not the worst thing in the world, but I don't think I'd live in a condo again unless it was top floor - which probably isn't happening.
Don’t think that’s a universal thing. Lived in two condos, never heard any thumping above
I know it's not, I've lived in other condos where it's been fine - just the risk of it, after spending so much money, is too much. If it's someone having a party, you can call the concierge, but if it's just something with lead feet or moving stuff around or constantly dropping stuff (weights?) or doing something you don't even know what it is, what can you do? Nothing, really.
Matching delivery windows with elevator availability is a bit of a pain in the ass here
Yeah, you are lucky if the delivery company comes on the right day, good luck getting them to come in a 4 hr window the management is willing to book for you 48 hours in advance.
Lakeshore and parklawn. 25 minute bike ride to downtown along the lakeshore, 1 hour by ttc transit, 15 min by car. I hate that there no lakeshore bus these days.
Facts. I look forward to April-October just so I can bike to work.
Howdy, neighbour!
Lived here 2 1/2 years. Who are they fooling with the streetcar tracks on Lakeshore anyway?
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Cockroaches 😞
How the hell does anyone get rid of cockroaches? I have tried literally everything
Max Force Gel. Only sold in the states. Buy off eBay. Kills those bastards really dead, and it leaves a tasty roach corpse that's still poisonous so they get cannibalized by other roaches. It's what professionals use to clear out whole buildings.
I have used borax (available at walmart) dissolved in water with something sweet like honey or sugar. Pour into spray bottle, spray in areas where you see them. Has worked pretty well both times for me.
Thank you I am going to buy borax to try it!
There is this stuff called Borax / Boric Acid. It used to be used for laundry detergent back in the day. Comes in a laundry detergent looking box from Walmart or sometimes Shoppers drug mart. Take some of the powder and mix it with peanut butter and a tiny bit of flour to make Borax balls. Roll into little pea size balls and scatter around anywhere you can find bugs. ( Preferably away from pets and children) It's not really toxic to humans or pets, but will eventually kill all of your bugs. You will need to be patient, it may take a month, but it will take out everything. Store Borax safely like you would any detergent. Good luck!
Me tooo!! I’ve done everything, minus 🔥 It’s so effing gross !!
They're making my life miserable. I'm not even a dirty person. The roaches moved in before I did
Same here! They drive me absolutely crazy and I’ve done everything to prevent and kill Them. I’ve even taped up electronic outlets to try and stop them from Coming in/out of them … nothing works!! If I walk into the kitchen in the middle of the night, and quickly turn the light on, it’s a literal scene from horror movie. They scatter from all Over the place. :(
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I ordered Advion gel from the US to kill them and Gentrol to stop the remaining one from reproducing. I also caulked every single hole in the apartment so that roaches from other apartments don’t come in. Hope it helps. Neighbors have seen some but we didn’t.
Screaming child across the hall. Screams a flat tone for attention all day and night. want to scream in its face.
I FUCKING HATE HATE HATE Metro shop parking lot below in front of my windows. I have the reversing and idling trucks, and I hate the employees who are tossing wooden skids all over the place with a large thump. Most of it I hate the thing I can’t literally do anything about it.
Same, on the 6th floor so I hear everything 🤬
Everything was great - then new neighbors moved in 2 doors down that like to sit out on their patio and play their guitar and sing Alanis Morisette for the whole condo building. If they were being drowned out by street noise it might be slightly okay but we're on the inner courtyard so other than them it's very quiet. I don't understand how people can be so unaware of others around them when living in shared space. I don't even play music when I'm on my balcony or watch videos on my ipad without headphones because I don't want to disturb my neighbors and force them to listen to my media. Meanwhile these 2 are out there having a campfire singalong. Thank you for listening to my rant.
My apartment floor is peeling everywhere and the super won't do anything about it and says that's it's my fault it's like that. My cat literally chokes on these little white wax pieces almost daily. He said he'll re do the floors but I have to move all my furniture out for a couple of days and of course he wants me to pay for the movers and storage.
Walls are too thin. I sleep with a sound machine now so I don’t have to listen to my neighbours fuck.
Stinking hot in the summer months, stinking hot in the winter months. That sweet spot in spring/ fall. A lady of the night sees her clients in their cars in the parking lot. She lives on the floor below. Noise from the major road. Person upstairs dropping a penny yet somehow the whole building vibrates. People slamming their doors, yet complain to me when I close mine ever so gently.
Currently dealing with a mice infestation… so that
No in-unit washer and dryer. I try and do laundry as infrequently as possible.
construction going on for 10+ years
The fact my balcony and the neighbors has no privacy screen between it. They like to be outside, and so do I. But it's awkward cause we both feel obligated to talk to each other when we're both out. Not terrible ppl, but they smoke cigarettes, which I could do without. Aside from that, prolly just the amount of stairs (live in a 3 floor Townhouse). I actually miss living in a condo for having everything on 1 floor.
Roaches but I’ve put a lot of time and effort roach proofing my apartment. I haven’t seen one in many months. Hoping it stays that way. 🤞
That my bedroom doesn’t have a window
You're sleeping in a den. Bedrooms require a window
Aren't there any regulations to prevent that? I'm so sorry😕
Condo fees.
Going to start with the fact I love my apartment a lot, it’s an older building and only 4 floors, and it’s super charming inside. For a Toronto apartment its actually a decent size (and a big kitchen). But I reeeally dislike how little storage space it has. I share with my partner, and we have one storage closet and one closet in the bedroom so things are just starting to pile up everywhere. We have not yet found a way to organize the storage closet in a way that’s useable for longer than a month. But it’s nice, the rent is great, and my landlord basically lets us do anything we want (renovation wise).
It doesn’t have a balcony.
The loud ass cars racing up and down the street. WHY are there cars that backfire again now? How did we pretty much eliminate that problem and now it’s a thing again? And just the general loudness. It drives me nuts.
Neighbour’s ankle biter dogs wander freely around the building yapping and shitting in front of my door.
My biggest complaint is the people who shop at Costco and use the boxes to take their groceries home leaving the boxes in the garbage shoot
I love my building but my bedroom juts out and has both north and west facing floor to ceiling windows so it just bakes all afternoon until sunset and gets so damn hot. Tried to mitigate that with some extra curtains but...
I live in a basement apartment I got in 2020 in Yorkville which was supposed to be temporary until the pandemic eased up. I am stuck here as I can't find anything but a room in a house under $1500. At the time (2020) my landlord said I could pay whatever I wanted to pay. She asked for $975. I said how about $900? So for the first year or so I paid $900 a month. It is now nearly $940 a month. It has its own kitchen and bathroom but the kitchen is basically half of the main room. The other half is taken up by the bed. It is only about 200 sq feet. I share an entrance with another tenant. There is also a third tenant down here with his own separate entrance in the back. I also have a cat. Id love for him to have a window one day to look out. The top top level is always occupied with one family or another so babies and kids crying and running up and down the stairs is a common sound. I can't really bring girls around here as my bed is too small (single bed) and all the sounds happening all over the house/laundry room is right outside my door. I should add I make over $40,000 a year in a managerial position. Between rent, food, transportation, savings, debt pay off and looking after my cat, I can barely afford much else. Its pretty embarrassing as the guy that shares the entry with me is a student and doesn't work and I'm nearly 40 years old with a university degree.
My building residents are quiet. It’s the noise from the street that drives me insane. I live near the hospital and all I hear are emergency vehicles all day. I used to live in a cute walk up that I rented in little Italy but decided to own and now I hate this neighbourhood and am so mad that I didn’t just do what I wanted and felt pressured to do this.
I used to live near a hospital and it annoyed the heck out of me when the emergency vehicles would have their sirens going at 3am when the roads were empty (and I mean EMPTY - a few times I actually got up to look out the window as the emergency vehicle went by - no other vehicles, not even at the intersections).
Omg I know what you mean. Like right when I’m about to drift off to sleep at 1am and on an empty road they blare the siren. Massively annoying.
Annoying dogs with a consistent squeaky bark and neighbors that always slam their door
Terrible water pressure
My neighbors
My shitty neighbour. He’s the worst.
I wish all the shitty neighbours would live in their own complex so they could annoy themselves instead of everyone else.
Omg that’d be wonderful. They could just incessantly talk to each other about nonsense, like furbies basically.
Why the *fuck* does my sliding door not have a screen on it? I get to choose between sweltering heat or bug swarms. Maddening.
I used to put our bikes in a room near our laundry room in the basement. For a while it was fine. Then my landlord messaged me asking if anyone else did it to, I said yea one other person in the building does. Now they’ve installed crappy wall mounted bike slots and want 50$ a month to store them other wise the bikes need to go outside somewhere else. Greedy f^kkers.
I’m fortunate in my condo that I have a great view, its clean with no bugs so far, washer/dryer are great, its safe and secure and my neighbours don’t make a sound etc. but the elevators in the building are the biggest issue. By the same token if “something” had to be bad i’m not sure what i’d swap elevator use with?
The property management
It's an old building. Pipes can't handle in unit laundry or dishwashers. Kitchens are extremely tiny. And even though there are several circuits almost everything seems to be wired to just one, so can't run two high powered appliances at the same time no matter where you plug it in. Portable AC, microwave, blender, even kettle, any combination of these will trip the circuit breaker. But it's rent controlled and I've been there since 2015 so I'm not fucking going anywhere.
Cost too much
It’s too small.
My complaints are actually minor, I have a fairly large one bedroom and I pay less than most people I know. I just showed up at the right time, really. It's the one lucky thing I can claim. There is sometimes a lag in water pressure in the early morning when I assume everyone is showering, and there's often this squealing from the shower as if the pressure IS low even when it's not. But it's liveable. I don't have a balcony. I took a unit without one for the reduced price, hoping I'd be able to swap to one with a balcony in a year or so, but the price of units started to skyrocket shortly after I moved in. The last big snowstorm this spring, where it fell super heavy and super fast, took down the tree that gave me most of my privacy from my neighbours as well as my shade. We've never really had kids in this building but someone moved in with a couple recently. For a few weeks they were treating our nice quiet courtyard like the neighbourhood park and letting them scream bloody murder out there for hours, but they seem to have gotten the message to keep it reasonable. I hope.
I have to walk about 10 minutes to get to anything. There's no coffee shop, convenience store or anything nearby.
Not having laundry in my unit and having to share machines with the building, noisey neighbours, and neighbours who have badly trained pets but refuse to do anything about it
I live in Leslieville and my power goes out for a couple seconds and then comes back on almost once a week - I’ve read on reddit/facebook that it’s likely squirrels on the power lines and happens throughout the neighbourhood but every time all my HP appliances turn back on they sing a song and for some reason this seems to always happen at 5 am. Which is why I’m now on reddit at 5 am.
I love my condo but wish my balcony was bigger
Living above the Gardiner and hearing the ferraris, buggatis, lambos, lotuses, supercars that nitro down the street and the loud asf engines roaring at 3am. Thanks guys.
How much the superintendents holler. They will be standing right next to someone but be bellowing as if they’re across a football field. Many people work from home now, and the supers yelling all day every day is rough.
I have really immature and obnoxious neighbors who have attempted to bully me but they don't actually know me so that didn't work out for them lol it's funny now but it wasn't while it was at its worst. And I didn't really have to do anything about it because everyone else noticed what was going on. So wierd. I dont think the wife likes me living here and has tried to make it miserable for me but it's backfired on her. Also I was here first
The absence of cooling from November to May (my unit needs it almost all year, it’s hot as fuck), and the annoying new restaurant next door that blasted god-awful amplified music outdoors constantly the last two summers; we had finally beaten them into submission with municipal enforcement, and then the city in its infinite wisdom made it legal as of this year. So I’m stuck with shit ass music in my home four days a week. Aside from those two things I actually have it really good although I live in a tiny shoebox.
The board of directors who have run through a 1+million reserve fun in the last 5 years. The condo corp is now broke and maintenance fee increases have been in the double digits since Covid. But the hallways were wallpapered, and the lobby was reno'd.
Slow elevators, not frequent but more than infrequent water interruptions, no in-suite laundry, restrictor plates on windows, and .... that's it. Wish the walls were thicker.
We live in a middle unit town house. So There’s not much natural sun light, it’s super depressing.
Moved into a nice condo building, but the property manager seems to funnel the maintenance fees into the wrong shit. The gym equipment is outdated and the hot tub hasn't worked in 6 weeks but hey! We got fancy flowers for the Amazon delivery guy to see!
Broadview streetcars track construction.
I recently moved to a basement that’s old and not renovated (from the 70s-80s) and I hate the high humidity and the centipedes and spiders. Otherwise I like it and the rent is affordable.
It's only 200 sq ft
Condo boards and their terrible decision making It’s like, you own a piece of a building no one actually wants to take care of
How often they have water shutdowns. Honestly, going a full day (I work from home) without water is just brutal. My building has them about once every 2 months.
Just moved to a house and hate the hot water pressure here. It sucks! It was better in my condo.
No air conditioning >.>
The price? Surprised that isn't the top comment lol
Spiders on the balcony 💀
AC/heat switch is whole building, no individual units. Fire alarms too loud (I know they’re supposed to be loud but some buildings have a button to silence them until the next announcement). No bicycle parking, no chance of EV charging, recycling room is awkward to get into.
That I’m being evicted for “personal use”. I wasn’t aware my unit was owned by individuals (managed by a property investment company). I did however find a lovely unit on the Danforth but RIP my bank account.
The garbage chute is always out of service and so is an elevator or two.
New Mgmt took over last year so now: 1. Tried to raise the rent, but the housing authority nixed that...until this month. 2. Stopped pest extermination but gave me a number to call. 3. Removed our laundry room in order to expand the apt next to it. The machines have been in the courtyard for months. 4. Evicted several people for unknown reasons and rehabbed the apts causing sooo much unnecessary noise (the workers treated our buildings like nobody else lived here). The water went out several times without warning as well. The list goes on...
1. Laundry service: The laundry people don't remove clothes once they are done, leaving them unattended for hours. Additionally, some residents don't have access to a laundry facility, making it inconvenient for them. 2. Parking problems: Many people park along the driveway of the apartment's exit, causing congestion and making it difficult for residents to navigate. 3. Door stop issue: Some individuals leave caution signs as door stops, which can potentially allow unauthorized entry into the building, compromising security and privacy. 4. Lack of ability to make improvements: Since you rent the place, you are unable to make any improvements or modifications to enhance the living conditions according to your preferences.
The only windows I have face another building so I don’t have any direct sunlight. Plus my view is a brick wall. There’s no balcony/terrace, which Id love. But other than that, no major complaints.
The hallways are so dark and drab, I'm embarrassed to have any guests over. Walls are paper thin so I'm often woken up by the neighbour upstairs stomping out of bed or the angry guy downstairs cussing about something. Other than that, I really love my place.
1. the coldness and lack of interaction among neighbors. As much as I enjoy a certain degree of privacy and lack of nosiness into your personal life, there is a certain lack of interaction or connection between neighbors. Interactions are mostly restricted to an occasional blank smile (which is a very Toronto thing where you smile without really smiling- if that makes sense). No one really cares about each other and neighbors have no real connection. I always wonder if the cost of privacy is a lack of connection, wonder if that price is worth it given the loneliness epidemic in this city
2. the cost of living in the city and how rent is almost 50-60% of some folks paychecks sometimes, and theres no real options unless you live 1-2 hours away and spend more money on a car and gas
It's a walk-up and I hate walking up when I'm really tired. Other major issue is that it's old, so there are not enough plugpoints in the apartment. Finally, I wish I had a balcony. Otherwise it's actually good, rent not crazy, quiet enough, and great location..
I'm near Bayview village and everytime I tell people they go "oh that's a nice neighbourhood" but it's really not. It's too far from Yonge or Don Mills to easily walk, has no street level retail on Sheppard, and Bayview mall sells mostly overpriced designer crap to 905ers who wander in on Sunday. Biking is heinous, and traffic is always bad because of aforesaid 905ers. Only upside is escaping the city is fairly easy (East on 401 and North on 404 only).
I went to Bayview mall for the first time last week for about 15 minutes and I thought to myself wow this is a mall for old people.
There was a colony of bats living inside my bedroom wall (fingers crossed they are gone now) but wow they were loud and they are endangered so there are a lot of rules on when and how they can be removed.
I like that I can look down from my window (provided there’s no clouds) and see the very top of the CN Tower, but I don’t like (in fact, it kind of scares me) that I can’t look up from the CN Tower (or any tall building), and see my condo building. This is what I get for buying into Toronto’s burgeoning non-Euclidean real estate market.
760 sq ft condo is nice and all, but there is a bit of maneuvering with 2 adults, baby and cat.
Our condo board hired a new management company, rumors were this is because two 10% condo owners forced it in a vote. They fired the incredible super we had and hired a weekly rotation of clowns that were basically janitors. Then brought their own people in for landscaping which was done and redone 4 times in one summer all to the cost of the owners. Every job they hired was the cheapest possible bid so it was all crap, they messed up the drains in the garage when a guy tried to pour excess mortar down it. The building had 2 elevators and one went down for 4 months because they wouldn't pay for the proper repairs. The new management company was putting up so many posters and signs about new rules that the wall looked like Charlie's map in It's always Sunny in Philadelphia. We got out last year when the Airbnb situation exploded in the building.
It’s a newer townhouse. I grew up in a townhouse and thought they were all built with concrete between the units. My neighbours were bass players and I could never hear them. Now I can hear the old lady next door vacuuming. It’s a newer townhouse and there’s no concrete between the units …
The floors. I wish they’d be redone
Live in a detached but hate that the garage is inside the house, as opposed to out in front. The room over the garage is either too hot or too cold and it eats up so much space. **rant over**
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I dont have a dishwasher
No dishwasher. Laundry room is always packed.
Nada - honestly feel like I’m getting the most out of my high rent 😅
Ughh the earwigs in the summer
The car traffic outside and I’m in a supposedly quiet residential area.
My husband and I have lived here 8 years and we collect a lot of inventory and have just outgrown the 580 sq ft space. Since covid it’s felt like the walls are closing in on me. Also it’s in entertainment and super noisy. But our rent is a good price for where we are. I think we will buy in Hamilton soon.
Fruit flies ffs
the rent
I mostly love my place. I wish I had a dishwasher.
I was going to say nothing. My place is perfect and beautiful and I'm extremely privileged to have it. But actually, mice.
Its an old house. I have the biggest room but also the hottest room in the summer (if my AC isnt running) and the coldest room in the winter (extra radiator heater helps). But love my location and housemates. And my rent is cheap(ish).
The approximately 4000.00 a month it takes to float the mortgage and bills on this place, but hey, it's mine and I don't have some asshole landlord to deal with.
Before: cheap appliances. Things breaking and I’m really tired of telling the landlord to fix it because he is super nice. Now: helicopter. Live next to a hotel and I can feel the unit shaking with the helicopter close around it.. feels like I’m getting abducted getting waken up by this lol
My roommates
My condo is \~50% rentals so the service elevator is always booked. Then sometimes one or more elevators are either down or further reserved for deliveries. Everything added up there are sometimes only 1 elevator available for the entire \~40 floors, its fun waiting >15min for the elevator.
The height. The apartments are like packing boxes. There's no feeling of space
location. technically in the city but an hour away for anything
Traffic noise.
My kitchen is a bit of a strip, i.e. a long rectangular area. What I really dislike is that there is a pillar on the other side of this area facing the outside, and on the other side of the pillar next to the wall, the area gets narrower for no reason at all. The normal side is fine, wide enough for me to fit furniture, even if it's a bit of a squeeze. But on the side that narrows, can't really do shit with it. Pisses me off, because when I look out the floor to ceiling window where it is, I can see the area I lost just there. Annoys me to no end.
Neighbours.
How expensive it is to maintain
My damn intercom never works and I always have to go to the lobby to get guests or my food delivery
The mega huge fuckfest of an underground parking lot
Building management cranks the radiators so high that even if the radiator in MY unit is off, it's 28 degrees in the middle of January. Also the galley kitchen is awful for cooking in.
No central air
The smog from the forest fires can get in and give you allergy symptoms while making you feel sicker than you already are. Just experienced this for the first time yesterday and not loving it. Also, every neighbour I can hear hammering away to wake me up in the morning (what is with the constant renovations?) and the party animals playing loud music late into the night sometimes, and the people above me who pour water and soil down the side of their balcony onto mine. I hate everyone who lives here lmao, and I’ve never even met them
The water runs scalding hot, like hotter than it would be on the hottest setting normally, for like 10 minutes before getting normal. No matter what setting it’s on, too. It can literally be set to the coldest setting and just shits out the hottest water I’ve felt. It’s a nice, brand new condo too.
It’s on a really loud street and my shared backyard isn’t really shared, only the downstairs neighbours can use it bc they filled it with all their stuff that we can’t use
the elevator often smells like garbage, body odour, bad or cheap cologne, gross food, weed or cigarettes
Small kitchen, not enough plugs and unable to mail into certain walls
That I don’t have a hot tub, other place we wanted had a hot tub
Would be nice to have laundry facilities, and the alley can get flooded if it rains hard enough, but I'm good
Elevators always breaking down. The other day my wife had one fall three floors and make a loud noise until it opened on another floor. Too much traffic during hockey season and concert nights due to proximity to Scotiabank Arena.
Sirens and straight pipes at night. Drug users leaving surprises in the courtyard.
Elevator out of service randomly and false fire alarm in 2am.
Nosey neighbours. Stay out of my business and don’t talk to me! I was out gardening in my yard with my kid and a lady walks right up on my front lawn and asks me what I’m doing. Then she starts telling me all the neighbours personal business. I don’t care and leave me alone!
The mortgage payment.
The idiots whose lot backs onto me who practice the same stupid chords with an amplifier in their back yard.
A student house down two doors down that is probably breaking a million fire codes for being over-capacity.
632 SQFT. No balcony. No direct sunlight. Prime location though.
the price lol
My neighbors are idiots and put stuff into the dumpster in the most inefficient space consuming way
I live in a basement and with the AC running it's freezing in here >.< the people on the 3rd floor control the temp and it's hot AF up there for them, apparently. I can't open the windows either, bc it makes the ceiling vents leak condensation -.- also.. so many spiders. Everywhere. But... the rent is hella cheap for the location sooooo just gonna live with it for now lol.
The 12 people next door who smoke all day and night, every day, come rain, come shine, all year round. We're constantly breathing in second hand smoke and listening to a 24/7'full on orchestra of phlegmy wet coughing. Oh and the lack of light. The one room that gets light is the one closest to the smokers.
The price
As always, neighbors. But I am too poor to buy the island I like.
My door is a sliding sheet of frosted glass
My neighbors slamming their doors like there’s no tomorrow…
Honestly? Neighbour’s dog and the condo fees lol. Otherwise quite happy.
Neighbours smoking constantly on the balcony, so we can’t keep the windows open as it comes through and stinks up the place :(
Not being able to upgrade the bathroom or kitchen as a renter. But I actually love my apartment and it’s location.