Transglobe Property Management on CBC 2008-04-07

News story on the CBC about Transglobe Property Management's 50 Selkirk building in Ottawa.

Please post your comments about Transglobe, if you have any experience with them. Alternatively, search for transglobe on Facebook and find one of many tenants groups.

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[Andralynn]

All you whiners that have been complaining that things have not been done for months: DONT WAIT FOR MONTHS. You wait 2-3 weeks and if things havn't been done you take them to the Landlord and Tenant Board (or your provinces equivalent). MAKE THEM GET IT DONE. They will let it slide unless you get it enforced.

Don't be a doormat any longer. You have rights, excercise them.

[darealwiggum]

@Andralynn I don't think calling your fellow tenants whiners is particularly useful. I do not think I was a doormat, and used both municipal and provincial resources in my favour. Even then, it took many months, and too many hours of my own personal time. My application to the LTB is a few years ago, and I hope things have changed, but I was not impressed by the efficiency nor effectiveness of the LTB to hold landlords like TG accountable for people in my situation.

[darealwiggum]

For the record, I've posted the video, but didn't live in this building, check out my other video.

[Sevilea]

Why would you expect to be compensated by the landlord for your loss of furniture ? Get Tenant insurance. It is not like the Landlord put the bedbugs in the building.

[darealwiggum]

landlords are responsible for clearing infestations in their buildings just like any other maintenance issue. failure to take appropriate action should result in some compensation to the tenants if they lost reasonable use of their unit or property.

it's also more than likely that the people in this video didn't bring the bed bugs into their units either, and i'm really unsure if most tenant's insurance even covers claims due to infestations.

[darealwiggum]

User mikelopi posted this comment today, and then deleted it within a few minutes (unaltered):

"i think that transglobe does a good job i have bin with them for like 8 years and i have never ever had a problem with them this video is trash and probably a fake that someone has added to be a tool i think that they you all were problem tenents that never paid your rent or just like to complain about everything and it is like the boy who cried wolf so grow up and act your age here."

not my comment.

[darealwiggum]

Just as a side note to my other inline comment, there was another comment for this video, which was also deleted in short order, that I reposted above, from someone who claimed to have worked for Transglobe. Just food for thought.

[WilsonGiggles]

That's disgusting! My sister lived in a nice apartment, until Transglobe took over. We all were under the impression they'd improve it, but their management sucks, and trying to get a hold of any of the upper management is a waste of time because they keep saying oh talk to this person, or talk to that person. Never ever stay in a Transglobe building. Nothing will ever get done for you! They're just a lot of talk, and no action!

[BlyndSDragon]

Trashglobe continues to be allowed to rent to people, collect evidence and take them to which place you need

[113063219]

@darealwiggum I live in London Ont & just moved into 520 Mornington , it has been hell since I moved in, never got a proper inspection of my unit & I have have phoned Toronto Head office & just get the runaround, I would like to start a Tenant Association would anyone

like to join me (:) George

[Payam6]

TRANBSGLOBE sucks. I also lived in one of the building in OTTAWA and finally moved out . This is NOT A SLUM becuase u don't pay for living in the SLUM

The poor refugees and Somalia are filling this building likes cattle's.

[TheDarthChilli]

@Andralynn do you not live in canada? do you know how inefficient anything governmental is? landlord tenant board is run by fregging morons who postpone everything so you have to keep coming back. they make more money that way

[slypher2005]

.......and it doesn't help that everything that is on there so called lease agreement is a real joke there are only 4 sections that has to do with them everything else is up to the tenant, me and my roommate are planing to move out by the end of march 2011. I do have to agree with the one guy that Transglobe are slumlords, me and my neighbors call them Slumlord International cause that is what they amount to.

[slypher2005]

Here is the latest with Transglobe, the appartment building on Rundlehorn Dr. NE Calgary have for most of this Winter have had little to no heat and it dosn't help that Transglobe has provided Mini Heaters that only do so much. Some of the tenants have to have them going 24/7 racking up there power bill in excess of $200 a month. Myself and a hand full of tenants are not paying rent for this fact, I welcome a lawsute if that is what they want to push for.........More.........

[Andralynn]

@Andralynn I was mostly talking to the people putting in maintenance request after maintenance request unending for months, without exercising their legal rights, expecting something to happen by only filing out a maintenance request with the company.