Selkirk Meadows - Broadstreet Properties Ltd.

I’ve been living at Selkirk Meadows for nearly 2 years now. If I’ve ever needed anything from the management, they have been fast to reply and accommodate. The building is quiet and my neighbors are friendly.

My review is for management, Carter has been extremely nice and easy to deal with. He has been accessible and quickly tended to concerns when brought up. I appreciate the care he puts in. Good job Carter!

When we asked if smoking was allowed Randi said: "No, not in the apartments," She mentioned nothing about people being allowed to smoke on the balcony. My wife has a severe allergic reaction to tobacco smoke and every night when we go out to sit on our balcony, the tobacco smoke from the unit below us is wafting up to our balcony. Consequently, my wife is not able to sit outside because of this.

Also, every time we walk down the sidewalk we are bombarded with people smoking in their 1st floor balconies. This is so disgusting to say the least.

We are very disappointed in your so called "balcony smoking" plus people who stand outside the main doors and smoke. They should have to go to the dog walk area to light up.

You may not see this as a problem but a lot of people who we have talked with absolutely HATE the smoking outside the main doors and on the balconies. You just might have a petition against smoking in the future as the people are sick of this.

We came from a house on the lake where we NEVER had to worry about tobacco smoke.

We were excited to be moving in here but this smoking issue has really caused a big problem for us.

Also, we were told that there were no families with children allowed in our "A" complex. However, we have seen at least two families in the "A" complex. How did this happen when this complex is supposed to be "kid free"? This is exactly what we thought we were moving into -- no kids!! These families need to be moving some place else. We have noticed a lot of kids running loudly down the halls and you can't help but hear them.

We never know when someone is in the Office here. This is very frustrating because when you want to talk to someone, you should be able to go there and talk to someone. When Randi was here, she was more than accommodating and we were sorry to see her leave.

Hope you take this e-mail for what it is meant to be -- clean up the problems us non-smokers are having to put up with. Even the hotels don't allow you to smoke on their balconies! So, why here? Maybe you need to consider building another complex and let all the non-smokers move over there and leave this smoked up facility to all the tobacco smokers. Let us know when this happens, as we will be first on the list for the new place!

You asked for our opinion so now you have it! Maybe things will improve immensely within the next two months so we can give you a more positive report next time. We sure hope so!

NELSON & MARY-ANN HASTMAN

I have been very happy at both Broadstreet locations. Everyone is friendly and helpful if I ever needed any help or information.