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After a months-long fight with his landlord, Shannon Lucas accepted a $40,000 payout to move out of a North Bay, Ont., townhouse, but says he would give it all back if he could stay. The landlord says the building needed extensive renovations and that Lucas could have moved back in …
Read More »Bitter feud ensues after landlord’s failed attempt to raise tenants’ rent 65%
A New Brunswick tenant says he’s being pushed out of his rented bungalow as retribution for complaining about his landlord, but his landlord says she’s the victim of an unfair tenancy tribunal ruling that is preventing her from using the unit to house family. Jonathan King and his landlord, Ashmin …
Read More »Montreal landlord struggles to evict tenant he claims brought chaos to neighbourhood – Montreal
A Montreal engineer and part-time professor is voicing his frustration at Quebec’s slow housing tribunal after he alleges a new tenant in an apartment he owns sparked chaos on the streets and rattled the neighbours. Francois Tardy rents out an apartment on a Hochelaga Maisonneuve street, which he said rented …
Read More »Push on to ban N.S. landlords from having pet-free buildings. Not everyone agrees
As Nova Scotia continues to grapple with a lack of available housing, debates are circulating around the issue of landlords refusing to allow pets into apartment units. On Wednesday, Nova Scotia’s NDP party tabled a bill titled the “Family Pet Renter Protection Act” that, if successful, would prevent landlords from …
Read More »Landlords struggle to evict tenants who turned Toronto homes into rooming houses, owe rent
Marissa Andersson and Oksana Kravchuk both own properties on the same Toronto street but didn’t know one another until they say they discovered a troubling connection. Their tenants, who told the landlords they were in a relationship, built extra bedrooms in their homes without their knowledge, leased them out to …
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