Panarama Tower

This was an overpriced ripoff. Looks good from the outside but it’s all façade. The day you move in you realize they cannot keep track of the parking spots and keep assigning you ones that are already in use. Once you’ve lived there for a few months stuff starts falling apart, like you bathtub /​shower fawcett and then you need to shower in the gym. I had neighbors complaining their heating wasn’t working and the management never did anything. To get them to fix anything you have to make a fuss or take them to the tenancy board. You can’t expect anything to work in this place, not even the elevator, and it’s a highrise. Management is the worst I have ever seen, no exaggeration!

This building is an expensive joke. There’s 26 floors and supposed to be 3 elevators. For the past 4 months, they’ve been renovating the elevators, supposedly one every 6 weeks. The new elevator rarely works, the second elevator is completely out of commission and the old elevator rarely works also. I’ve had to walk up to the 17^th floor 3 times, been stuck in the elevator 3 times for 15 to 25 minutes and my husband has been stuck at least 4 times and had to walk up 5 times. I can’t count the number of times I’ve pressed the button on my floor to catch the down elevator and had it pass me by. I have to leave for work at least 25 minutes early just to try to make sure I get there on time. Elderly people and people with children are crying in the lobby because they can’t get to their apartments or are panicking in the elevators because sometimes you get in and the elevators take you up and down at various speeds and won’t let you out. We can’t invite friends over anymore and, heaven forbid, we should ever need an ambulance. Tonight we had about 15 firemen here because the elevator was giving off sparks. Once again, walk up 17 floors with your laundry basket and then find out that the dryer didn’t do its job. To top it off, they’ve just RAISED the rent. Now on to the water situation. Sometimes you turn on the cold water kitchen tap and you only get hot water, no matter how long you leave it on. I dread taking a shower because I’ve been scalded or hit with cold water so many times. I spend my time in the shower ducking and weaving the water spray. Turn down the hot, it gets hotter, turn up the cold, it gets hotter. Other times, it goes in the completely opposite direction. The taps seem to have no relevance to what water temperature comes out. Are you absent minded? Get out your cheque book — a day late with the rent — $ 50; lost your door fob — $ 50, forgot your keys — $ 60, etc. The people who work here are great but they’re bound by rules set by an avaricious and uncaring management company. There’s lots of other smaller problems but I can only rant for so long. The slogan for the building is «Live, Work, Play in the centre of it all». That’s fine if you plan on never leaving your apartment or having a shower. Luxury living, my buttocks!