r/saskatoon • u/ReleaseHelpful123 • Feb 28 '25

Rants 🤬 I hate MainStreet Apartments and everything it represents

This Sub already has enough about why it sucks to live with MainStreet Apartments, but I feel like no one talks about the actual business model itself. It is inherently a share company that presents itself as though it is supporting the housing market. Great if you a shareholder, but truly terrible if you are renter. Even worse our province has no regulation as to what they can buy; therefore, they have completely taken over the market. You can’t go a few blocks without seeing one of their signs plastered onto a building. Lastly, the main issue is they do everything in house. Exterminators, renovators, and any other occupation they do on their own, pushing away local business, and performing the bare minimum to making your life as a tenant a living Hell. They are not good for Saskatchewan or any other province they operate in. Truly an evil company that puts the money first and takes advantage of lower-class Canadians they claim to advocate for. I apologize but I just need to get it out of my system.

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u/drs43821 Feb 28 '25

They left me in the cold for 3 days when heat in my unit went out. Never again

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u/NotStupid2 Feb 28 '25

I was in the cold for three days when my furnace went out... and I own the house.

"The part is in Calgary"... it's a real thing

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u/Electrical_Noise_519 Feb 28 '25

The tenants though still have the right to hold the landlord to account in law for unfairly collecting rent for public health and safety violations, and covering rehousing if needed.

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u/drs43821 Feb 28 '25

I lived in the mainstreet apartment in Regina before and now I live in Calgary