I think the pictures, or lack there of, of the unit make it look much more desirable. For the price the location is very out of the way and in a rougher area of the city. Not the "leslieville" area experience I've had at previous locations.
The bedrooms A/C unit is installed in a way the bedroom window must stay open and there is no way to close it or barricade it. Not only did it make me feel a little unsafe, but there were people working outside and there was absolutely NO WAY of sleeping past 5:30 am without drills and saws and yelling in your ear, we could not even be in the apartment without hearing a drill and saw blasting as if it was right next to us
Only after check in did Hamilton inform us there was no coffee pods for the maker left. I said no worries and asked for the closest cafe around and his response wasn't the most helpful.
It also would have been nice to know about the giant staircase you need to climb in order to get up to the unit. So if you had to park a little ways, don't try and be a superhero and carry all your bags in one go of it, because when you get there and think it's almost over, the stairs are a real morale killer.
Our itinerary had changed last minute and we had to stay in Toronto another night, I messaged Hamilton in the morning asking him if it was available for another nights stay. He took a while to respond, after 11am check out time and said no. Which was fine, we booked a hotel closer to the core anyways after not hearing from him right away.
After checking out not even 10minutes past 11am, later that day I noticed an email that Hamilton had raised a case against us for late check out threatening to charge double the nightly rate, whilst we were already long gone and checked into our hotel. I thought this was ridiculous and handled very poorly considering how accomodating and nonchalant I had been about the various missing items, uncleanliness and over all let down of the unit.
Considering the small difference between this apartment and a more central unit/full service hotel, this apartment was not a good value at all