Being a landlord in Ottawa these days is often not enjoyable:
“I can’t believe this was the place I used to live, this was my family home. It just smells like a zoo, even a zoo smells better,” Salter said.
The 29-year-old takes in the damage she says was caused by her previous tenants. Salter says they only paid rent for three months of their 13-month tenancy, owing her more than $35,000.
She invited CBC for a tour of the property just minutes after she got the keys back following a lengthy battle at Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB).
The tour revealed damaged baseboards, holes in the walls, broken lights and faucets, a clogged toilet, broken banisters and carpets covered in stains.
Hmm. So the tenants treated it like they treat the Reservations
The CBC didn’t try very hard to hide that the subjects of the article and cause of so much suffering and damage are native.
How come they didn’t have one of their aboriginal reporters file this?
Considering that government bureaucracies nullify landlord property rights, in a very perverse way Trudeau’s plan to rent your house out to immigrants does have its advantages. The rent cheque would come from the government and repair costs when the tenants leave would also be covered (at least that’s how it works with hotels that are leased for immigrants). I suspect the rent would be half of market value and the tenants would be entitled louts.
Sorry, don’t support the CBC with my clicks.
#defundtheirentitlements
I believe the Landlord and Tenant act was heavily revised by the NDP under Bob Rae. Since the NDP believes landlords are evil capitalists screwing over the working class the LTB is extremely biased against the landlord. My neighbours inherited her mom’s house in the late ’90s and decided to renovate it and rent it out. After receiving only 3 months rent it took over a year to evict the deadbeats and then $20K of repairs were needed.
EXACTLY!
Ontarians are getting EXACTLY what they’ve voted for. And they’re getting it good and hard
“Thank you sir, may I have another?”
Faster please.
PS: why didn’t the Harris and now Ford “Conservatives” fix this the Landlord and Tenant Act?
Since the NDP believes landlords are evil capitalists screwing over the welfare bums…
There, FIFY
(Parasites are the NDP’s number one supporters.)
I assume this definition of “parasites” includes the NDP itself! LOL
Both the NDP and the Liberals are largely the party (they are are one party) of “government as an interest group.” With some exceptions – e.g., military, law enforcement – if your salary comes to you via a forced transfer from the “productive” sector of the economy (and I’m including here ostensibly “corporate” types whose business is completely dependent on goverment transfers), you’re NDP-Liberal,
Except Doug Ford and his PCs have been government since 2018. 100% of the highlighted cases have occurred under Doug Ford and the PCs. Ford is Kathleen Wynne in a Fat Suit.
I don’t recall a single CBC exposé of a landlord/tenant dispute where the landlord was white. Maybe I missed them all. At least they threw in a token one this time.
BIPOC is an order of operations acronym, like BEDMAS.
Black trumps Indigenous…
I experienced the same damn thing many years ago. They were white people with good jobs and two kids. They trashed one of my apartments but back in those days I could not be screwed around for 13 months. I cut their hydro and water and kicked them out. No lawyers no courts no B S. The damage was extensive and after repairing it I decided no more apartments. I sold the building for what I paid and never went back in the business.
Sound like she received a good dose of Cultural enrichment.
The problem is that being a landlord, is very high risk if you aren’t a corporation with 100s or thousands of units, because 1 bad tenant can break you, especially with Landlord Tenant board being infested with Tenant Advocates, and huge delays.
Reason 34,597 that there is a housing shortage in Canada. Builders, owners, developers, anyone thinking about building or renting out or making a profit including financiers, and investors have been vilified by fiat and they are all going Galt. Import half the third world within a few short years while making it as difficult as possible for building new homes and pass more idiotic laws criminalizing those you rely on to solve the problem, that’s Canada.
I know people who are leaving residences empty vrs renting to unreliable tenants. There isn’t a line up of people wanting to buy these places at what they paid. Being a landlord is not a great money making proposition.
Full disclosure. Property manager in BC, where no pets means no pets, period, sneaking one in is prohibited.
I know, big meanie.
If residences are left empty, then they get charged a speculation tax (federal and provincial in Lotusland) and any primary residence capital gains exemption is hived off by CRA on sale, if not before, as they become ever more desperate for our money, thus our fealty, with their “unlimited power of taxation” backing their bonds.
They have convinced millions that landlords are subhuman robber barons with no right to decide what to do with their God given property rights (which PET omitted), like leaving a place empty, or running a BnB.
Government creates the problem, housing in this case, expects the landlords to fix that for them, then blames and punishes owners after inevitable market failure, even though statists caused it all imho with their taxation, regulation, duplication and regurgitation of past failures like rent controls and dictating uses of property.
Faulty wiring would be a better way to evict…
When you think that sabotage or other shenanigans will help you get your property back, think again. The fines you are forced to pay are in some cases disbursed to the tenants. That means there are built-in incentives for tenants to goad you into such actions. In Ontario, even if they don’t pay, you can’t let the water, gas or electricity be cut. If you don’t pay on their behalf, you’re liable for harassment or some such. The only things that are outside of the mandatory services are air conditioning and hot water, I believe. So you take out the tank and remove the fuse from the A/C. That’s it.
One principle guides Ontario (and other province’s) tenant laws and regulations: “Distributive justice”.
There are activist redistributionist (i.e. Marxist) groups like ACORN Canada (ring a bell?) that will help tenants entrap and fine landlords. Literally, if you have them evicted to move into your own property, you cannot sell it or rent it out within at least one year. There’s a site where tenants can register the property and, if it sells within a year, the activist group will help fine the owner. The money (either $25k or $50k, I can’t remember) goes to the tenant.
The bottom line is that as soon as you rent out your property, it is henceforth government housing. You might own it but they control it. You are a de facto provider of low income housing and forevermore need to beg at the Landlord and Tenant Board if you want to do anything *with your own home*. And BTW there’s no such thing as a fixed-term lease in Ontario. Once they’re in, they can stay forever –including if you sell it– unless the owner gives notice, files the form, waits months for a hearing, gets approved, gives enough time for them to move out and lives in the property for a year (as explained above). There’s no legal way to say “You can rent it for a year, then I’m moving back in.” They don’t *ever* have to leave without an order from the LTB. They call that “housing security”.
Being a landlord pretty much anywhere in Canada is not enjoyable. The deadbeat factor is high and the law and processes favour the tenant. I would never own property in Canada that was not for my own use and would never do any rental whatsoever, not even short term. There are many other places you can invest your hard-earned dollars that are much less hassle. This is one of the reasons there is a housing crisis in Canada and why so much of the rental housing that does exist is owned by major, specialized corporations.
I wonder how many NGO’s are training these “professional tenants”? Just like the NGO’s deploy thousands of Lawyers to our Southern border to counsel illegal aliens about what to say and do to get into America on fraudulent asylum claims.
Our nations are being conquered by unelected political entities bent on bringing down Western, capitalist culture.
Being a landlord is quite literally hell at times. I used to run multiple properties, and had some good tenants, and some really bad ones. In one case, the tenant turned the house into a boarding facility and had eight people renting beds in the basement, which caused so much wear and tear on the building, I had it deemed unsafe and tore it down. Made more money renting it as a commercial parking lot.
That was when demolition was easier. Now you have to get an asbestos inspector in and he takes 25 samples from the house for testing at a $150 per sample. Then if any is found, a special team has to come in and remove all of the material that contains it, costing you $15,000, then if your really lucky, they’ll let you tear down what is left of the house, and that has doubled in the last ten years. So a one story, 700 sq ft bungalow ends up costing $50,000 to demolish.
p.s. Asbestos is so dangerous that it gets grouped with “other” in the list of cancer causesat less than 1%
At some point in time the tenant is going to leave the building.
That’s when “somebody” makes them decide to leave permanently.