Gotham | 53m | 17 fl | Completed

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Originally Posted by jcphoenix

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/developer-of-anticipated-gotham-condo-building

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This has been brewing for a little while obviously but away from this forum.

As I've said before, I'm relatively lucky compared to many owners in the building. We have some deficiencies but pretty much all of them are things they can fix in a few hours that Lamb could conceivably call standard PDI items. I've seen several other units now and the complaints are absolutely warranted - with some spaces *significantly* incomplete on move-in, from major gaps, to open walls to missing appliances to closet doors being put in the wrong way, sliding doors installed so when they closed there was still a foot between the door and the wall, poor tiling work, cracked bathtubs, etc.

Everything in the building is fixable but Lamb was bringing in handymen to do the fixes and they were doing a pretty sloppy job. Pretty much the day this article started becoming a reality, they stepped up their game - Lamb came to visit the building and just last week, they had a guy from DC come into all of our units to inspect our deficiencies. Supposedly, this week and next, each floor has a day assigned for fixing issues in their units. All of a sudden, I'm getting responses back from the Lamb team regarding issues I have. Our heat pump was broken and they replaced it completely on Friday. We'll see how the "fixing" days go but it looks like they might finally be feeling the pressure to do quality work.

I have seen one unit that had all kinds of issues in the beginning and has now *finally* all been fixed (they redid all the poor tile work, replaced the cracked bathtub, repainted the place and cleaned it up) and it actually looks pretty great now. So there is hope. But that owner was planning on moving in when I did and wasn't actually able to on time because of said issues. That's the kind of thing there should be compensation for, on top of the ridiculous delays we all had (and some still have).

That said, wall tiles in the main areas - downstairs as well as on our floors at the elevators - are also going up and they are looking pretty spiffy. Can't wait till it's all finished.

Still waiting until we get our rug and balcony furniture to take photos of our unit .

I am really the owners here stuck together and made Lamb face the music. If he is being honest and fixes everything as he should, good on him. Hopefully the visiting every unit stuff is not just PR and he actually owns up to all of this. He could really salvage his Ottawa reputation by owning up to the mistakes and fixing them. Us Ottawans are a forgiving bunch, heck Claridge is still in business the last time I checked.

Also can't wait to see those pics.