Boardwalk Rental Communities

Steer clear of this management company! Nothing but problems and anyone we met was moving out and fed up. We did the same. Poor management. Some rude office staff. Old apartments from 70, s going for ridiculous prices. 1500 2 bdrm teen tiny kitchen old appliances threw out rotten food and took months to get a fridge. Months to get a stove as oven heated unevenly burners had bare wires. Tried sleeping garbage truck banged the huge commercial bin under our bedroom and we were on higher floors. Even with window closed woke us up. Could hear elevator through closet since apt backed onto them. They were always with one down or both. Office told us to call elevator repair inside elevator as they are not responsible. Fire bell going off once or more a month for long periods or malfunction. Water shut offs every single month. One tenant noticed it was always beginning of every month after the we all paid rent.
Could smell pot smoke cigarette smoke up from balconies below and would be sucked into our living room bedrooms also same up from other apts inside bathroom floor storage area inside apt. Through our hallway.
Smelly stinky elevators and dirty… smelled either pot or urine. Do you really need to read more to stay far away? Read other reviews especially the «not recommended ones» at the bottom.. It’s all true. They rent to anyone.. move in move out nightmares. Rules are. office locks one elevator off for you. out of two but more than one move double booked. .other tenants get mad at waiting and get extremely hostile. No where can you reach management. Police already know staff and buldings. Not helpful. dangerous read between the lines.. Only one person on here had anything good to say. our beef is mostly with Sarcee and Richmond rd area buildings. But all same upper management. Like we said stay clear youll be thankful. Wish we knew.. puffed up dangerous.. Attacked moving out even with using correct rules.. not evicted as far as we know. worst injuries not shown. Charged with serious assault. Crazy tenants and management. Only a handful of good nice ppl but lots were moving out like we did.

I have lived here for over 4 years and I have nothing but great things to say about O’Neil Towers!
Staff are always helpful — yeah, there’s been a glitch or two, but I’ll let those slide: we are only human. If ever I have something to get repaired in my suite, the maintenance team is promptly dispatched to my suite, except during mid-​month and month-​end move-​outs, of course.
Yes, rent is higher but this is down-​town. We have an outdoors swimming pool and a tennis court. We also have saunas and an exercise room. Wintertime? No need to put on a coat or snow shoes to go to the store for milk. AND almost everything is within walking distance — even a hospital. If you are a socialite, you will always meet people down-​town and you will fall in love with the many amenities!

BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE!!! We rented thru Boardwalk for a few years and it just got progressively worse as we went. You had to file complaints with the Head Office in order to get any work or repairs done at our unit due to the insane laziness of the On Site Manager.
Boardwalk also had the audacity to charge us 500 dollars for steam cleaning our tiny apartment, which we had hired a professional company to come in and do prior to Boardwalk also doing it. 500 dollars to carpet clean and change a light fixture. Ridiculous. I have filed several complaints and was told it would be dealt with. Now I get a letter today that they have sent those charges to collections. Horrible company! No communication at all. Watch out for these guys. They charge you astronomical fees for teeny repairs. (Oh and we never did get any kind of compensation for the double carpet cleaning either)

While it’s been nearly two years since I left O’Neil Towers, I was prompted to write this review by a nightmare I had the other night… a nightmare in which I was forced to move back into this building (for real!).
When I arrived in Calgary I didn’t know where in the city I would be working, and I was using public transit, so I thought living downtown near the C-​Train line would be best. My logic was sound, and I’m glad I didn’t move to the far southeast (as I ended up working in the far northwest)… but I wish I hadn’t chosen this apartment building.
The building itself is not in good condition. The elevators frequently don’t work, and the fire alarms go off ALL THE TIME (usually at 4:00 am, and mostly when the weather dips below –20!). Many of the Boardwalk staff will blame it on people burning food, but one Boardwalk employee AND numerous firefighters responding to the alarms told me that it was because the building’s heating and pipe systems were faulty (on firefighter told me that freezing water in the pipes deactivates the sprinklers, which sets off the fire alarm as a precaution). The laundry room is dirty (and lots of yucky people leave their laundry sitting in machines for hours on end, making it difficult to do your own loads). The parkade (I think parking is $ 100ish per month?) is not particularly secure, and the back entry to the building is frequently occupied by drug users and dealers.
My suite (a corner suite on a floor near the middle of the building, costing $ 1219 monthly) was not particularly clean when I moved in, despite the fact that I moved in two weeks after my lease began (giving them plenty of time to properly clean the carpets– something they bill you for when you leave). Noise from the neighboring suites was an issue. Maintenance was a pretty significant concern– my toilet broke once, and my shower leaked almost non-​stop for several months (despite my submitting regular maintenance requests). Maintenance workers were friendly but always left their work areas dirty (and not actually repaired!). You also have to be prepared to take a serious hit on your electric bill– Boardwalk deals with a private electric company (in which they have a financial stake) that charges extremely high «service charges». These «service charges» vastly exceeded the actual cost of my energy use every month– sometimes two– or three-​fold.
I ended up moving out three months early, as I could no longer take the late-​night fire evacuations and leaky shower. Because I «broke the lease», Boardwalk kept my entire damage despite. They’re a crappy company and it’s a crappy building… don’t even consider this apartment building!