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I’d give half a consideration to the landlord but they live thousands of km away from the rental unit and mom (they’re claiming is going to move in) is in a care facility.
They saw an opportunity to make cash and now they get what they get. Sounds like a good situation. Long term tenants. But these people needed more!
I rented a house below market. They didn’t raise the rent the entire 3 years I was there. They said they’d rather have it rented to quality people longer than have people in and out chasing the highest rate. Best landlord I’ve had.
I rented out my house while I was working out of town, I had exactly the same attitude. I just wanted someone that wasn't going to trash the place, so I found someone that wasn't an asshole and gave them a deal for a few years.
I had another place years before that where I thought I was giving someone a similar deal and they paid me back by absolutely gutting the place, even pulled the copper plumbing out of the walls. Cost me tens of thousands even after insurance. I had trust issues after that bullshit.
I know Lemmy hates landlords, but the fucking shit I've seen from renters would stagger people's minds. Had a place where the kids wrote on all the walls with Sharpies and the carpet was covered with orange koolaid stains that wouldn't clean out, had to tear out all the carpets.
I knew a guy that rented a place to a RCMP and when he went in there one day to fix something, he found a stack of used diapers at the bottom of the basement stairs where they were tossing them for several weeks. Couldn't evict them for that, had to give full notice because the board sided with the cop.
Oh damn, I’ve never heard of someone gutting the house! That must’ve been quite the shock.
Yeah, there are assholes on both sides of the landlord tenant dealings.
I saw a reddit post once of a tenant complaining the landlord was withholding the damage deposit due to new stove top needed. The tenant was looking for sympathy and shared a photo of the stove top. It was the glass top style and looked like the tenant had claned it for a few years by scrubbing the surface with 40 grit sandpaper and used angle grinders on the baked on part.
A family member managed a low income building:
There were tenants who removed all the plastic switch plates and plug covers, and pulled all the baseboard and door jamb frames off.
One had a closet full of garbage and human feces. Toilet worked fine.
One had a water leak they never reported and the entire lower kitchen cabinets looked like it was being eaten by an alien tentecle creature made of black mold.
People just aren't well, whether its a tenant or a shitty money grabbing landlord
"Ashmin Goolab says she wants Jonathan King and his wife out of their bungalow, so that her mother-in-law can eventually live there."
Sounds like you should have used that property as a dwelling rather than fuck up the housing market by converting into a rental for easy money. Get fucked landlord scum
She bought it with the renters already in there. She didn't convert it to a rental.
While I acknowledge my lazy reading of the article, I feel like this fact makes her even less justified to want to use it for her MIL. Now it just sounds like she should sell the property and use those proceeds to buy a place for the MIL.
Her story with her in-laws gets a little sympathy, right up until she's complaining that the tenant is doing all these things to her and she "didn't do anything".
You served him illegal rent increase notices and you tried to evict him! That's not nothing! All the tenant has done is get the regulator in the loop, and the regulator has repeatedly said, "yeah, you can't do that." Flawed as they sometimes are, we have laws like these for a reason.
I’m also noticing the owners said they are bleeding cash. But they bought 7 units (in 4 buildings) for 295,000. Assuming 0 down and 5% apr that just north of 1700 a month. So this one renter paying 727 is nearly half of their mtg.
Even if we say expenses and upkeep adds 50% to their monthly outlay, their costs are covered at 4 units rented…
I’m not exactly anti landlord but this screams rent seeking crocodile tears.
If she's "bleeding money" she can sell one of the seven units she owns.
Landlords are leeches.
That being said, Blaine Higgs, our former Premier, has removed all tenant protections last year. While our current (more competent) government brought a lot of them back, the leeches feel empowered, like we took something for them for basic regulation to protect renters.