I was just browsing reviews for other apartments and happened to see my old apartments, Doncaster, had some feedback so I read all the reviews. I lived at Doncaster about 3 years and I have to agree with all of the negative posts. The noise is what I remember most - Doncaster was my first apartment and I've lived in others since, and the noise in Doncaster, there is nothing like it anywhere else. Water running in someone else's apartment sounded like a herd of buffalo. I also asked about an adults-only building, I guess no one does that anymore but they told me there is a limit of 2 people in the 1-bedroom apt. buildings so I thought I was fairly safe from a lot of noise. However, the kids all played in an around my building, I guess their parents yelled at them for playing in theirs! They bounced balls against the building and always played around it and I lived on the ground floor so that was annoying. They even played in our hallways. I was down a small hill so my bedroom windows were level with car headlights. If you rent here, only get a top floor apt, I'm serious. I had a snake once and 2 mice that got into my apartment (not very good overall insulation/protection from outside) and they actually said to me that they don't exterminate for those. There was no space in the kitchen, only 1 small drawer. Apartment was very small. I agree that the parquet floors were horrendous. I finally moved out because I had the noisiest neighbors above me. There was supposed to be a limit of 2 people per 1-bedroom apartment, but the people had a baby and they were noisy before, but after, they were up pacing and banging up and down the floors all night long. The management would not enforce their 2-person limit rule and would not make them get carpet. I am not a crank, I complained about it very civilly both on the phone and with a followup letter. No response. So 6 months later when I don't renew my lease, they want to know why. I again stated my complaint. Oh, they said, we can fix that! Too late, I said. You should have acted on my complaint at the time. I knew then that they only cared about attracting new tenants, not keeping the ones they had happy. Please note the rent I quote is what I paid several years ago.

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