In an attempt to distance itself from the massive influx of luxury student housing, a new development called iLiv in Waterloo, Ontario, is set to offer students with some unusual amenities including highly-trained monkey butlers and an indoor heated salt-water 50’ waterfall; but that’s not all. The 25-story building will also offer students a free hover board when they sign a 12-month lease or a lifetime subscription to Netflix, if they sign a 36-month lease.

When asked to comment on some of the more obscure amenities that are being offered, the head leasing agent at iLiv stated, “Students have come to expect gyms, indoor pools and recreation centers. We wanted to do something more and exceed their expectations. So naturally we went with monkey butlers.”

While the community offers monkey butlers, they currently have a no-pets policy in place, with the exception of the primate butlers. The head-leasing agent assured us that the monkey butlers would comply with all animal legislation and residential tenancy laws.

Although it’s not set to open until 2021, the pre-leasing office is already operational and has rented out 75% of its units for the 21’ – 22’ school year. It’s expected that the community will be fully rented out by mid-summer 2016.

The development group responsible for the construction of iLiv has already started planning a second location called iLiv 2. It will be basically the exact same building with a few different quirky features. iLiv2 is scheduled to open the following year in 2022. Rumor has it they may also be developing two other properties called iLiv C and iLiv S.

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In case you haven’t realized it yet, this is an April Fool’s joke and sadly there will be no iLiv or monkey butlers. We’re sorry to get your hopes up.



Happy April Fools Day!