If you're a renter considering a Devon Properties ...

If you're a renter considering a Devon Properties building - do yourself a huge favor and move on, because despite how good the place may seem on the outside, you're in for a world of stress and frustration once you sign that lease. This ownership group is incredibly disorganized and will completely ignore you if you have any legitimate issues that require landlord/building manager support.

Our apartment building was bought out by these guys back in the summer, and since they've taken ownership, the garbage hasn't been taken out, we've been given less than 24 hours notice of suite entry regardless of if we consent or not (tenancy act requires three days written notice, one day of verbal notice), there have been no communications to any of the tenants about any building work despite being woken up at 7:00AM to crew workers outside of our rooms making no effort to be quiet, and not a single call or email has ever been responded to. We've never actually met our landlord (I believe she is also the landlord of 3 other large apartment buildings). These guys are one big enigma.

Need more reasons to walk away? We had a police incident in our building that required us to evacuate our rooms last night, and when we called the Devon "emergency" line, we waited for around half an hour before we gave up. The police couldn't get a hold of them either so eventually just knocked some holes in the wall to do their thing. Don't count on them to be reliable should there be an emergency in your building. You're on your own.

Obviously ownership groups are in the business of making money, which I completely understand and won't complain about, but Devon Properties doesn't even make an attempt to seem like decent building managers. They have bigger fish to fry, apparently.