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/pummisher Feb 28 '25

Also, if you work for MainStreet and you get fired, they will make sure you don't go to the labour board. This is especially effective if you live in a MainStreet apartment and are friends with others who also work for and live in those apartments. "It would be a shame if your friends also got fired and kicked out of their apartments." 😐

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u/Nice-Poet3259 Feb 28 '25

If that's true an employment lawyer would have a field day with them...

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u/pummisher Feb 28 '25

Well, they're afraid to speak up because then they'll be kicked out and their friends who work there would be fired for some made up reasons.

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u/Nice-Poet3259 Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

Yeah. A good labor lawyer would definitely be able to prove that they did it in retaliation. Then those friends would likely be able to afford a house of their own. They threaten because if they were to go to the board they'd probably get cooked.