Yet another "emergency" water shut-off

Thursday July 14th 2016 from 10 am to 4pm the water will be shut off. 6 hours!!!

Malicious Fire Alarm

On Wednesday May 18th 2016 at around 5pm in the afternoon, teens ran through the 15th floor, grabbed a fire extinguisher and emptied it on the 15th floor making a mess, and then ran off. This caused the fire alarm system to sound and send all the residents out of the building as the fire department arrived. What is astonishing is that these teens, who are supposedly tech-savvy, did not realize that there are security cameras on each floor and at all exits, which captured the entire event. The video will be handed over to the police and the teens will evidently be identified, due to the high quality video system and also since they were apparently recognized by staff who viewed the video footage. Apparently these teens have been around a lot, and while accompanied by others, hang out in the stairwells above the 16th floor next to the roof exits and smoke drugs and drink alcohol.

Another "emergency" water shut-off

A few days ago papers were posted around the building indicating that the water would be shut off on Wednesday May 11th 2016 between 9 am and 2 pm... and it was. (AGAIN!) With all these so-called emergency shut-offs, it would be better to scrap the existing water system and put in a new one. In fact, with these chronic shut-offs, it is easy to get a rent reduction via the Régie du logement. Just file a claim and ask for a retroactive rent reduction of say, 50$ per month. All you need to do is print out this blog with all the dates of the water shut-offs to substantiate your claim and you will have it accepted by the judge. You can also add in the fact that the grounds are always filthy and that the elevators are always broken. You can even explain that you had to pay for the keys when you moved in which is not allowed. This should get you up to 100$ per month retro-active reduction!

Saturday noon NO HOT WATER AGAIN!

As it has happened almost every Saturday in the past few months, there is no hot water in the kitchen around noon time. I guess so many people are cooking at the same time that there is not enough hot water to go around. And this even though they changed the boilers a few years ago for new ones. Lousy building!

No hot water during supper time

At around 7:30 pm today Saturday April 9th and yesterday (Friday) there was no hot water in the kitchen. Instead ice cold water was running from both the hot and cold water sides of the tap! Should we be surprised?!!! This is the building from hell!

Water shut-off again

Well it happened again (no surprise)... today, Wednesday March 23rd 2016, the water is off from 10 am to 2 pm. Another "emergency" shut-off. Need to go to the bathroom? You get one flush! After that no more water! Need to do your dishes? Nope, no water. Convenient eh?! No chance of them doing repairs between midnight and 6 am? No, we wouldn't want to disturb the sleep of a couple of plumbers, lets just inconvenience some 400 residents instead!

More Renovations

I guess the owner(s) are panicking with summer coming and the new building at the corner of Gouin and Rive-Boisée opening as apartments instead of condos. I am sure many people will be leaving and it will be much harder to rent this place once the new building opens. So the owner(s) of the Marina Center have started to renovate the halls by ripping out the walls and tiles next to the elevators to replace them with new walls and fancy floor tiles. You can see the work on the 16th floor, since they are starting up top and working their way down. They started replacing the hall carpets in December and never finished leaving a sloppy unfinished mess in the halls. Looks really professional... NOT! But it doesn't really matter how much they try to revamp this building... it just won't work. Its just too big of a job because of the years of neglect. Outside, the parking area is littered with garbage, not to mention all the dog poop. The apartment are small and very old. Cheap material was used to renovate and that makes for low grade results. And lets not forget the elevators, also known as the elevators-from-hell. They look bad and never work properly. Not a month goes by that either an elevator is out of service or the water is shut off. I know, I know, I am ranting... I need a vacation.

Mezzanine Elevator

The mezzanine elevator has been out of service for almost a month. Apparently they are redoing this elevator with a new interior. And apparently all of the tiles around the elevator entrances on each floor will be redone with fancy new tiles. But in early December of 2015, they started installing new carpets in the halls of each floor. Unfortunately they never finished. They just laid the carpet but never put the carpet border back and did not even make an attempt to paint the area where the old carpet border was. Not very impressive. Hopefully the new elevator will be better.