Palomar at Village Gate West

Palomar has been built in April 2012 and when we came in we even had a discount because the building was almost empty. We were only 3 on our floor.
Rent is not cheap considering you are outside the city. And there is not much to do around the building. So basically, get a car! Islington station is about 10 minutes away by foot and you have to walk through a gigantic parking lot. Not fun. Especially during winter. There is also the highway on the way home. All in all, the surroundings are bad.
The suite however is nice. And you get dryer + washing machine and you can control the heat in your suite which is great since we haven’t had that in our other appartment.
Problem is, since you are close to the train + the subway you can hear it all the time. Litteraly. And that can get annoying if you don’t use ear plugs like I do!
My real problem has been to deal with the management because we had crazy neigbors. I guess they were students, they were 3 in a 2 bedrooms and they had a dog!!! The dog was constantly barking. I told the neigbors it was very annoying and it stopped BUT every time they were going away, they left the dog at home and the dog was crying/​barking in the middle of the night!!! I had to call the Concert kind of 911 emergency phone number and there’s nothing they could do.
My neigbors also were incredibly noisy and were partying all the time. Since our bedroom was attached to their balcony (How silly is that!!!) we could NOT sleep. I told them multiple times but they didn’t care. They didn’t even speak english so what do you want to do.
I wrote several complaints to the management and they obviously didn’t care. They said they would send them a note and if the noise was on an ongoing basis they would sue them. As if!
We finally left and because we didn’t want to pay for their silly maintenance cost (You need to repaint the walls, clean the carpets professionnaly for $ 150!!!) they sent a collection agency after us. We had no choice but pay $ 500!!! And I am obviously not the only one on Unilocal who had a problem with them and their collection agency. I even saw a guy who litteraly sent $ 20 bills right at their face because they told him «if you don’t pay we will sue you».
They do that all the time. Never deal with them!