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Imperial Towers, Barrie Reviews (1)
By eb15 on
Jul 24, 2015
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Ever since DMS property management has taken over this building, it has turned into a nightmare. They changed all the shower heads with some low water pressure solution that makes it almost impossible to wash shampoo out of your hair. They replaced the ceiling lights with some low hanging contraption that you'll be lucky if you don't hit your head off every time you walk by it. The water goes off in the building CONSTANTLY! It was down for 5 days in a row a few months back and even made it on the local news. When I tried to get an ETA from DMS property management when the water was off they couldn't care less about communicating and basically just said "when its done".
Seriously, expect your water to be off from 9-5 at least once a week. It'll probably be on a Monday morning JUST when you really need that morning shower before work...
The way they give "notice" to tenants about things is to post something in the downstairs lobby 24-48 hours before doing it. I had an instance where I did not have a reason to leave my apartment for 3 days. In those 3 days they had posted the notice and towed my car. No phone call or knock at my door to ask me to move it, nothing. I ended up having to eat a $170 towing charge because they were too lazy to slip a notice under my door or to pick up the phone and call me.
When they need "reasonable" access to your apartment to do 20 minutes worth of work, they will put a notice in the lobby saying that your apartment will be entered sometime in the next week. They are too lazy to coordinate a specific day with you to do repair work, and even if they do, as i had happen to me, they said they would come in on a Tuesday to do the work but actually came in on Monday when I was not home. When I complained about someone entering my apartment illegally they again just didn't care.
The apartment itself is over-priced and you can hear EVERYTHING that the unit above and to your sides are doing. If you do decide to move in I would strongly recommend having some kind of ambient noise device playing in the background or you'll go insane hearing other peoples conversations all day long.
Seriously, expect your water to be off from 9-5 at least once a week. It'll probably be on a Monday morning JUST when you really need that morning shower before work...
The way they give "notice" to tenants about things is to post something in the downstairs lobby 24-48 hours before doing it. I had an instance where I did not have a reason to leave my apartment for 3 days. In those 3 days they had posted the notice and towed my car. No phone call or knock at my door to ask me to move it, nothing. I ended up having to eat a $170 towing charge because they were too lazy to slip a notice under my door or to pick up the phone and call me.
When they need "reasonable" access to your apartment to do 20 minutes worth of work, they will put a notice in the lobby saying that your apartment will be entered sometime in the next week. They are too lazy to coordinate a specific day with you to do repair work, and even if they do, as i had happen to me, they said they would come in on a Tuesday to do the work but actually came in on Monday when I was not home. When I complained about someone entering my apartment illegally they again just didn't care.
The apartment itself is over-priced and you can hear EVERYTHING that the unit above and to your sides are doing. If you do decide to move in I would strongly recommend having some kind of ambient noise device playing in the background or you'll go insane hearing other peoples conversations all day long.
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