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I don't know, in Toronto the big management companies are often super sketchy- Transglobal is one often cited as the worst (not that I've lived in one of their buildings).
I recently moved out of a place owned by a small management company (adnat) that was the absolute worst- they would trash other employees over the phone, play dumb whenever I followed up on something they said they'd do, and eventually, I had to take them to the rental tribunal (and won).
It totally depends. I don't think you can develop any hard and fast rules on this sort of relationship, just as you can't for any other relationship.

That is the PERFECT couch. Where is it from?

I currently live next door to casa domestic violence.

They have loud, obscenity filled screaming fits at least once a week. One night, the wife sat on the flat roof over the second floor and screamed about throwing herself off, alllll night. Or so my roommate says. She didn't call the cops though, and i asked her why, and she said "not 911 worthy". I had to explain the concept of the general line, and we decided next fight, we'd call.

So two saturday nights ago, they were screaming and fighting so loud, i could hear them over the TV. Stuff kept falling down the stairs too. (we share a wall with their staircase). So when I heard a very large item (body?) go thudthudthud down the stairs, I called the police. One car shows up. Suddenly, there are 7 cars, an ambulance, and the ambulance SUV that shows up sometimes.
Someone was taken away on a stretcher.

Soooo, calling before talking to the landlord is a good thing sometimes.

(Best part though? the trashy punk neighbours on the otherside, who think they're DJs were all like "you're THOSE people?" when my roommate mentioned that we had called the cops as they were talking about the shenanigans. Assholes. Can't wait to move.)

Beautiful! And exactly the colour scheme I've been planning for my new bedroom.

If you don't mind, what paint colour is this? Thanks!

Heh, yeah, most downtown Torontonians have not yet figured out how to deal with these ginormous bins.
We have the blue recycling one, a big black one for garbage, and a small green one for compost, and we live in the middle house of three row houses. No backyard/side of house/alley access.
Instead, our front porch (and most of the porches of our neighbours as well) are now devoted to bin storage.
Although one of our neighbours had a good idea - they put a door in the lattice on their front porch, allowing them to store the bins underneath. They do have a high porch and the "one bag" size bins though.

Oh and with a 36 day garbage strike, leaving the house smells lovely.

I love the idea, some of the houses just don't accommodate it well.

In toronto you can get cavallini paper at write expression at bayview and davisville - i acutally already have a couple of their designs as art.

Love it! BUt would use bigger rocks in the sink.

I live in a three story walk up in Toronto - not going to lie - the solar powered hot water was a definite selling point in deciding to move in : )

Things I love about Toronto:
- it doesn't take its self too seriously. It's a bit grungy and dirty, and I like it that way.
- The public transit.
- the Crystal (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Royal_Ontario_Museum.jpg/800px-Royal_Ontario_Museum.jpg)
- The diversity and multiculturalism

Things I don't love about Toronto:
- Entitled 905ers (suburbanites)
- The public transit.
- The smog
- RENT (1200 for a two bedroom basment? Gah)

oohhh, I want a cheaper version of that couch. Any recommendations?