My stay in Scarborough apartment wasn’t so brightness like previous tenants. Honestly I dont believe that all reviews was truthful. I based on reviews before I choosed that place, but was very unpleasantly surprised when i came.
First, this is absolutely not sparkling clean place. I arrived to the basement apartment and it was very dirty, nobody cleaned it after previous tenants. Everywhere was crumbs, dirty floor, microwave, fridge, bathroom. Moreover, bed linens wasnt changed after people who slept there before. When I said to the host about the linens, he was seems surprised and said to me that cleaning person suppuse to do it. However, during our settling he came in the apartment and closed the windows, he said that he opened it for the airing. So, the host was there and didn't check what's going on there, how looks the place where will come people to rent it soon...
They gave me new set of linens and I had to sleep on it with my little child without provisional washing.
So, first two days I cleaned everything there: kitchen (crumbs, fat, food stains on furniture, stove, dirty sink), I cleaned the floor in all apartment, under the sofa and bed was plastic bottle and food packaging), bathroom: toilet, sink, shower.
Second, this is the basement. I also knew that basements are different ( sometimes it comes with personal heat or with heat floor), I also knew that can be not enought warm there (because it's deep autumn) and I asked the host about the climate in the apart. He assured me that this is warm place. It was point for me and I made a decision to rent it. So, there two hole in the basement and from there goes all the time air (this is like wind tunnel), from there you can get hot or cold air, (and also all smells after cooking upstairs goes to the basement). Thats the heat system.
In the bathroom no heat, and it was no more than 15C. I couldn’t to take a shower for my child because of it, even it was cold for me.
On second night I understood that cold air from the hole goes directly to our heads, I woke up with sore throat, because during the night cold air blew on us. I said to the host about the problem, he start to dispute with me, so familiar I with canadian heating system or not, that in the house even colder than in the basement. After my child started coughing hard they switch on enought warm, but it was already too late.
So, I started to looking for place more safe for my child and people who can take us till my child get better it was unconvinient for us and for them, but this is case about the child...
I returned there after two weeks (I rented for the month), in the apartment was enougth warm, except bathroom. The owner tried to be very nice, but I felt all the time since I came first time there and still feel that they tricked me, I completely wasted my money (2155 CAD per month).
At the end, as a vacational rentals they didn't provide the towels (second day they gave me one towel and small one), no iron (but in the descpiption it was), no teapot (there are coffeemaker, but water never start boiled there). Three times I killed the silver fishes (as cockroches). And it's Scarborough, not close to the Toronto even by car.
So, I don't need the answer and explanations, just everything I said it's truth (I have the pictures as evidence).