I have lived in the building for two years Over all the building is well run with a few exceptions No building is perfect and you will never have have 100 of the people happy in any strata run complex The owners are of a mix of ages and different culture backgrounds more friendly than not What I like at Park Ave Towers is all the amenity that are available in the complex and open until 10 00 pm The grounds are big and landscaped so you can walk around as well across the street is Central Park General maintenance is pretty good but some areas could be improved upon A lot of landscaping debris blows down the ramp into the underground parking It is never swept up and ends up plugging the rain water drain One of the elevators has moving protection hanging in it more often then not At the present time it has been nearly 5 month with it hanging in there very unsightly Some of the major repairs and renovation projects are not managed very well The projects take a long time to complete and are often followed by complication I have seen that more money is often spent because work is done incorrectly or has cased additional issues Overall for what you pay it is a good place to live and excellent location

I think it worth mentioning that upon move out the one main elevator was down for a period of weeks for a building with 18 floors Very frustrating NEVER conduct a back to back move with only one elevator Sadly the Strata had an 80 year old woman with a walker managing the one elevator She was supposed to manning the elevator lock for 2 moves over a 6 hour period Good on her for volunteering her time but she abandoned her post after a few hours understandably This is a serious indication of the type of management you will encounter Fraser Campbell Property at this time were working with a too busy too costly attitude to dealing with issues leaving it up to the volunteer elderly tenants strata living here Location is good skytrain shopping etc but you will have a lot of issues with the homeless drug addicts living in Central Park shootings needles yelling screaming and drug deals

This building received a notice that a unit on the 16th floor has bed bugs Professional electric heat treatment by Care Pest Control will be undertaken March 20th In addition all 15th 16th and 17th floors will undergo a canine inspection to ensure that the insects have not spread A report is made it will be necessary to inspect the units above below to either side of the infected unit I see that there are a number of listings for sale of the 16th floor lately and tossed furniture to the curb for the City to pick up BE CAREFUL OF WHO YOUR NEIGHBOURS ARE LIVING HERE

Fire was in this building on the 15th Floor 15 Jan 2013 Smoke water damage to the south west corner of a few floors above below beside I d be very careful about buying here you should carefully consider who your neighbours are There are some younger irresponsible home owners living here who tend to bring in a range of guests I ve seen a few sketchy characters in the elevators possibly drug addicts Not saying that the fire was a result of this activity but it does make a person wonder

Rented a 1 bdrm middle unit appox 740 sq ft from an owner who did some upgrades and the rent was reasonable with d w w d However it was not until after I moved in that I noticed the loud rude neighbour I reported issues with his hardwood floors stomping and late night BBQ s after midnight marijuana smoking on the balcony aka smoke transference Non smoking was voted on and it failed to pass If you are in a middle suite you will suffer greatly in the summer no air flow and the fan above the stove only recycles the air back into the suite Lots of dial a dopers coming and going from Central Park Great skytrain access