Worst Burlington Apartments

Welcome to Where NOT to Live in Burlington..... 1460 Ghent Avenue, Burlington ON "Burlington Square Plaza" http://www.burlingtonsquare.com/residential.html BEWARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pictures Lie.......If you visit the above web site in consideration of moving here it appears to be a well kept, modern and newer building. Truth...... The apartment shown is a model ONLY... NONE of the actual apartments that they have to rent look like this. Each apartment has a kitchen that has not been updated in approximately 15 years. The cupboards are old, stained, broken, chipped and made of particle board which is warped. The kitchen faucets all leak or spray and the counters are scratched, chipped, dented and tired. The appliances are not bad if you don't include the vent which is, well, gross! The living area/dining room is an odd shaped rectangle which makes accommodating furniture a nightmare. There are more coats of paint on the wall then humanly possible to count (still doesn't cover-up old grease stains! yuck!) and the trim throughout the units is broken, missing or so old its no longer secured to the walls. The sliding doors which go out to the balconies are also old and no longer sealed. Watch out for a windy day as the doors bend under pressure and allow cold air and sometimes snow to enter your unit. Bathrooms. Yes there are 2 full bathrooms. That's about the only good thing to be said. The fixtures are old and rusted and the tile is either a sea grass green colour or pastel blue (not a nice pastel). The tubs are worn and show the signs of just how many people have bathed there (gross, I know). The cabinet under the mirror is painted shut and there may or may not be a cover on the light fixtures.....Oh, I almost forgot....as an added bonus, while you are using one of the showers/tubs, the water then fills up in the other shower/tub!!!!!!! Closets are through out the unit and are very large. Just don't expect the doors to function properly. Now on to the building.... It is a very large, older building with commercial space in the bottom part. The under-ground parking is large but extremely under kept. On February 14/08 the fire department and health inspector where called in to try and ventilate the entire building as 10 out of 10 exhaust fans in the parking garage were not working and it allowed for a dangerous amount of CO2 to build up and enter the ENTIRE building. Residents were not allowed to leave their apartments due to the unsafe level of poison in the hallways and stairs. Do you smell smoke? That's right, smoker or non-smoker get used to that smell. While in your unit you may have the wonderful experience of smelling and sometimes seeing smoke enter your unit from adjacent units! There are small hols in the walls and the "shared" air circulates throughout the building allowing all sorts of wonderful and offensive smells to enter your home. Elevators are always slow, broken or on service. If you are lucky enough to be in the elevator when it does break down please don not waste time with the Emergency button......No one will answer! Police/Fire Department - You know its bad when you haven't seen either the police or fire department in a few days and then you worry. It wouldn't be a Friday or Saturday night if the cops weren't in the building for one reason or another ( probably something to do with the nice smells!). Finally, if you do for some reason decide to move to this building, bring ear plugs, tools and a lot of patients....your gonna need them!