Friday, September 11, 2009
Do not go gently into that good night
Sage advice
The building that civility forgot
Welcome to 109 Jameson Avenue chronicles
This site has been created to share some details of our time as tenants at 109 Jameson Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6K 2X2.
Suffice it to say, the building kept a roof over our heads and only once did that roof fall down when water pipes burst and saturated the plaster overhead. Our unit also featured four walls with a fantastic distressed look that we're assured is all the rage. Large sheets of paint would peel right off the wall thanks to over-painting and water damage. To top it off, the apartment has a front door that only occasionally showed signs of attempted forced-entry as well as a floor to walk on. Never mind the fact that the parquet tiles would sometimes come right off the floor when walking bare foot.
On the appliance front, we enjoyed the luxury of a stove whose elements would work at least 75 per cent of the time and a glorious fridge whose bottom door support was broken when we moved in and that our landlord decided to fix by flipping the door hinges to the un-broken side. This shows a clear concern for the environment as it would otherwise certainly have ended up in landfill; I can't see someone purchasing it with a broken support and a freezer door that doesn't quite seal. This fantastic refrigerator also did an excellent job of hiding the water damaged parquet flooring tiles that laid underneath.
In the bathroom, guests were offered luxurious accommodation to do that which must be done. A porcelain throne with rocking action, a mismatched sink in a strange yellow colour and a bathtub that, prior to moving in we had to convince the building manager not to paint. With standard house paint. The same house paint that has been known to fall off the wall in slabs.
Each room save the bathroom and kitchen boast at least two electrical outlets, only a couple of which are of the annoying three-prong grounded variety.
None of this luxury would really mean anything though without quality people to share it with. To that end, several times the revolving door that lands people in the rental office at 109 Jameson Avenue saw its way clear to send us tenants who were only too happy to share their joie de vivre with us. At 3am. On a weeknight. Some of these tenants took great pride in the exterior of their dwellings too, decorating with disused mattresses, reclaimed junk from the downstairs refuse area and in one special case, custom art work spray painted on the door. We couldn't quite make out what that scrawled tag said but assumed it was marking territory. Beats pissing on the balcony I guess, which was the option a couple of our other neighbours decided to exercise.
If you're thinking of renting a unit at 109 Jameson Avenue, Toronto, Ontario from Jameson Avenue Rental Inc., I can only suggest you get your application in right away, lest some other lucky incumbent gets his foot in the door before you have your chance. Jameson Avenue Rental Inc. has been an absolute joy to deal with. They keep things mysterious by never answering the phone when you call, touch base at least once a year to see how you're doing financially by upping the rent the legally allowable amount and will just generally treat you as a human being who deserves to live a full half-step above squalor.
Suffice it to say, the building kept a roof over our heads and only once did that roof fall down when water pipes burst and saturated the plaster overhead. Our unit also featured four walls with a fantastic distressed look that we're assured is all the rage. Large sheets of paint would peel right off the wall thanks to over-painting and water damage. To top it off, the apartment has a front door that only occasionally showed signs of attempted forced-entry as well as a floor to walk on. Never mind the fact that the parquet tiles would sometimes come right off the floor when walking bare foot.
On the appliance front, we enjoyed the luxury of a stove whose elements would work at least 75 per cent of the time and a glorious fridge whose bottom door support was broken when we moved in and that our landlord decided to fix by flipping the door hinges to the un-broken side. This shows a clear concern for the environment as it would otherwise certainly have ended up in landfill; I can't see someone purchasing it with a broken support and a freezer door that doesn't quite seal. This fantastic refrigerator also did an excellent job of hiding the water damaged parquet flooring tiles that laid underneath.
In the bathroom, guests were offered luxurious accommodation to do that which must be done. A porcelain throne with rocking action, a mismatched sink in a strange yellow colour and a bathtub that, prior to moving in we had to convince the building manager not to paint. With standard house paint. The same house paint that has been known to fall off the wall in slabs.
Each room save the bathroom and kitchen boast at least two electrical outlets, only a couple of which are of the annoying three-prong grounded variety.
None of this luxury would really mean anything though without quality people to share it with. To that end, several times the revolving door that lands people in the rental office at 109 Jameson Avenue saw its way clear to send us tenants who were only too happy to share their joie de vivre with us. At 3am. On a weeknight. Some of these tenants took great pride in the exterior of their dwellings too, decorating with disused mattresses, reclaimed junk from the downstairs refuse area and in one special case, custom art work spray painted on the door. We couldn't quite make out what that scrawled tag said but assumed it was marking territory. Beats pissing on the balcony I guess, which was the option a couple of our other neighbours decided to exercise.
If you're thinking of renting a unit at 109 Jameson Avenue, Toronto, Ontario from Jameson Avenue Rental Inc., I can only suggest you get your application in right away, lest some other lucky incumbent gets his foot in the door before you have your chance. Jameson Avenue Rental Inc. has been an absolute joy to deal with. They keep things mysterious by never answering the phone when you call, touch base at least once a year to see how you're doing financially by upping the rent the legally allowable amount and will just generally treat you as a human being who deserves to live a full half-step above squalor.
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