Unpaid rent, arrests, arson: Fed-up landlords fight back
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Published 2024-05-06
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The tenant set fire to that man’s house but still had rights as a tenant!! That is total madness. The system is not only broken, it is creating dangerous and desparate situations.
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The LTB has failed both honest tenants and honest landlords. The system needs to punish bad actors on both sides.
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Can someone tell me why nonpayment should not equal automatic eviction?? Is there any other service that you can use and not pay?! Can you eat at a restaurant and leave without paying?! This is theft! Its a crime!! My tenant has an income of 250 k annually, 2 VERY high end SUVs in the driveway, and hasnt paid since day 1!! Just because he can. This is the result of a broken system that allows and perhaps promotes this criminal behavior. Nonpayment of rent should be immediate automatic eviction, period.
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Bravo to CBC for allowing comments on YouTube. So proud of you for this historic breakthrough.
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Somebody should sue the Landlord and Tenant Board for dereliction of duty.
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The LTB is a joke. Automatic eviction for non-payment of rent. Simple as that
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I was a landlord twice. Never again.
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This is a failure of Provincial governments, it's time to make them liable for all of this loss.
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So if the Homeowner runs out of money,and theBank repossess the home, does the non-paying tenant become of the responsibility bank? Does theBank have to go through the tenancy board to evict the tenant? This is crazy. Who in their right mind would want to invest in residential property in Canada ? 🇨🇦
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Once my tenants are gone, I’m done renting to. To much of a risk
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Our government needs to get back to work and give the service that we need !!! This is bs !
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Best thing we ever did was sell our rental property! The stress-relief was incredible!
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My parents were also a victim to a tenant that refused to pay rent for months and has done this to multiple other people. It’s just sick that they get away with this. WE NEED STRICT PUNISHMENTS FOR PEOPLE DELIBERATELY NOT PAYING RENT.
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I don’t understand how it is too difficult for good landlords to get bad tenants evicted, but it is too easy for bad landlords to evict good tenants only to raise the rental prices and re-rent it. 🧐
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This is outrageous. This is the very reason why decent tenants are pained and can't find rent. This is completely broken.
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You know what's missing from this story? The manner in which governments are ensuring citizens can not get ahead financially. At every turn, the average person trying to stay above water financially, is burdened, reburdended, and overburdened to ensure that they can never get ahead. That's what absolute power does...keeps everyone else down.
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I know a retired couple who owned a rental property & who got hosed by their renters. They had to repair their home after the renter eventually left, & they then sold the rental home. There are too many irresponsible people out there who rely on their right to inhabit properties for free.
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How did squatters get rights in the first PLACE .???
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Still waiting for my order from LTB. Owe $25k in rent, threats to torch condo. This story is one many of us are experiencing
