2250 Rue Guy

2250 Rue Guy, Montreal, QC H3H 2M3, Canada

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maikikiuu
Reviewed on May 21, 2021

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I am a tenant of this building. To cover their poor occupancy rate due to the terrible building quality and poor-quality of service, they turned some units into AirBnb for daily rent.

As a tenant who was unfortunately trapped by their FAKE hospitality, I will share the real experience of living here:

1. INTERNALLY NOISY. There is no sound isolation so you basically can hear any sound your neighbors are making. Note, not only neighbors next door, but neighbors above and across the hall. Your neighbors hear what you are doing too of course.

2. EXTERNALLY NOISY. The building is close to the street. Even you live on 27th floor as me, you still hear loud noise from the street even with windows closed. So, in a hot summer with no air conditioner, you will have to open the window and hence do not expect to have a good sleep even for a night.

3. SERVICE. I will endorse the other comment about their service. And here is a detailed example. Many tenants experienced the same as I did. And of course we have contacted the office to at least solve the internal noise. But their response is guaranteed to be: ask their security to have a walk around the floors to pretend they are trying to identify the source of the noise, then no further step. If you bring this issue to their desk, several of them will tell you the noise level is "acceptable" based on all of them. If you are smart, this example is enough to let you know what you will get when you have other complaints.


4. FACILITIES. Definitely dirty. The machines in the laundry room are never cleaned. And sometimes you even find some dirt from the previous users. The pool and the sauna are smelly. Do you really dare to touch them? That is why they have so many rooms but the facilities are never busy. (Or maybe not even enough tenants to make the facilities occupied?)


5. ELEVATOR. The elevator is super old and small. During my rental period, there were 3 maintenance. One elevator allows for 3 people maximal. When maintenance in progress, there will be more than 10 minutes waiting time. The longest waiting time is 35 minutes for me. I've heard complaint of longer waiting time.


6. SECURITY. There is security system in place. However, there is only 1 security guy in this building and if he is away, nobody is really watching. I've seen too many people wandering around with no key then following somebody to enter the building. Thus, your door is basically open to the street.


7. POWER. There are many construction sites nearby (added to the external noise source). And also old commercial buildings use lots of electricity. So you may experience unnoticed outage of power occasionally. I experienced 3 times in 2020, and one during the cold winter when you need heating.

In summary, Montreal is a beautiful city with many accommodation options. Do not fall in the trap of this 2250 Guy building. Not worthy to ruin your impression on Montreal.

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timburkey811
Reviewed on Aug 12, 2019

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very very old building that has no noise insulation. Too much Airbnb scene, that means too much noise all the time.
Extremely infested with bed bugs and roaches.
At least one elevator will not work causing major frustration to tenants.
Try to avoid

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Frustrated T.
Reviewed on Jun 23, 2018

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BED BUGS ALERT! Horrible. Where should I start? I'm writing this review out of pure honesty and frustration. Don't waste your time here, don't live here, and here's why:

I've been living here for three years and this has been my experience:

1) Extremely UNSATISFACTORY conditions of living. After a water accident that occurred in the building, the elevators have been under "maintenance" and NON-FUNCTIONAL for more than 2 MONTHS! This building has 33 floors, a line fills up in front of the elevators when you try to get to work or back home because only 1 elevator works out of 3. RIDICULOUS, and I'm as patient as they get. What's worse is that for this issue to get resolved, the management wants us (the tenants) to contact CAPREIT ourselves in Toronto and want a GROUP of e-mails so that it gets done. This is so simple to get fixed, and is just a lack of professionalism from the management. We don't live here for free!

2) The ROOFTOP has NEVER BEEN ACCESSIBLE in these past 3 years!!! It has been under renovation and we've been told that It would be finished by LAST SUMMER. Plain dishonesty and disrespect, If I could give 0 stars I would.

3) NOISY NOISY NOISY, the other reviewers aren't kidding! The building has been "under renovation" for YEARS. I have become best friends with my ear plugs because you will hear HIGH-PITCHED noise from the water running in the apartment above or under you. You will hear DRILLING at the worst times throughout the day and just as soon as you think its over, there will be more a week later, a month later etc.

4) Despite all of the bull shit, your windows will NEVER be cleaned from the outside ever. And you can't even clean them yourselves (it's too dangerous and I highly do not recommend it).

5) If you have ANY problem and you see the management, they will come up with a way to not make it their responsibility. Nothing ever gets done.

6) The water can suddenly stop working, WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE. Sometimes the heating of the water will fail too.

7) Best for last: there are bed bugs in this building and they do not know how to handle it! They will bring the exterminators and there will be 0 results.

*I don't want a reply or someone to sympathize with me, I'm past that and over it. No sorry bla bla bla, just give the tenants decent living conditions and you won't have to deal with these reviews.*

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kourosh
Reviewed on Feb 4, 2018

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I am a current tenant of one the apartment in this building and here is what I observed in this building as a tenant : extremely noisy (both due the structure defects and excessive Airbnb business) , zero care from landlord to the tenants rights and zero collaboration from landlord where issue arises.
Below I have described some examples to give you and idea how your life would be in this building:
First of all, most of the apartments in the building are rented and being used by specific people for Airbnb businesses. This will result in a noisy and unsafe environment since people are constantly coming and going in late hours mostly with purpose of partying, so you can say goodbye to your sleep at night.
When management team was addressed regarding this issue, they were unwilling to take any action and considering the fact that some individuals were allowed to rent multiple apartment in this building and use it for Airbnb suggests that management are also involved in the Airbnb business.
Landlord has minimum care regarding your belongings if there is an accident in your apartment. There was water leakage in apartment where landlord decided to come to my apartment without my knowledge or a simple heads up, perform a major construction in the apartment (without my knowledge) and damage my belongings in the process and not even clean up after their repairing process.
When landlord was addresses regarding damages they caused , landlord simply said that they do not care what has happened during their repair process and I should call my insurance due the damages they casused!
I hope that these observation helps you in your apartment hunting process since if I knew about what is going on in this building I would have stayed away from this building.

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duji
Reviewed on May 2, 2017

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This is a super noisy place to live. There is no isolation at all. Whenever your neighbour talks, sings and works, you hear it very clearly. Also, they can't stop constructing on the walls. It makes huge noise that trembles the apartment. Call security at night to stop the noise? What about daytime, don't people live here in the daytime? I believe there are a lot students here who don't follow a 9-5 schedule. They may have class at 8pm and need to sleep past 10. And what about the renovation starting at 8:30? You can call nobody to stop it, it is legal but inhumane.
I really think those who posted the comment below which said "quiet" should really reflect on their conscientiousness. You cannot lie to rent out your apartments.


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