Finally! Someone stands up to the tenant

about time.

There are slumbag landlords, but there are many many more slumbag tenants.
 
I own a house but it is vacant since I have lived with my GF for the last year. I just go over to maintain it. I wanted to rent, but after checking out the Tenant's rights in Ontario and hearing a lot of cases like this, as well as the fact that Landlords have zero rights, I have decided renting it out is not for me at least for now.

You can't even take a security deposit anymore. As a Landlord, if you specify no pets that only means that the Tenant can not move a pet in immediatly. They can buy a pet the next day and is perfectly within his rights to have that pet live at your place. Unless that pet creates damage or affects other Tenants rights it's there to stay. Who needs that s*h*?

I hope the Landlord sees her $ but I wouldn't hold my breath. These deadbeats are everywhere.
 
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I tried evicting one tenant a while ago for smoking in his room. Took months and he wouldn't leave but eventually he stopped smoking in his room.
That's why I try to rent only to referrals. If a tenant doesn't want to pay not much you can do to re-coup all the previous months rent and I think it cost money to try to re-coup some of previous months rent as well. Glad I haven't gone that route yet.
 
I'd never rent out a property again, the dirtbags keep winning.
 
bgfa said:
I own a house but it is vacant since I have lived with my GF for the last year. I just go over to maintain it. I wanted to rent, but after checking out the Tenant's rights in Ontario and hearing a lot of cases like this, as well as the fact that Landlords have zero rights, I have decided renting it out is not for me at least for now.

You can't even take a security deposit anymore. As a Landlord, if you specify no pets that only means that the Tenant can not move a pet in immediatly. They can buy a pet the next day and is perfectly within his rights to have that pet live at your place. Unless that pet creates damage or affects other Tenants rights it's there to stay. Who needs that s*h*?

I hope the Landlord sees her $ but I wouldn't hold my breath. These deadbeats are everywhere.
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Where is your house located?
 
I prefer to set my house on fire than to let some parasite leech off me.
I hope the parasite goes with the house
 
I do the landlord thing with my Dad (I do all the court/legal action stuff). I am 100% opposed to the Landlord and Tenant Board and government Tribunals are supposed to make the legal process "Faster and more affordable because people can represent themselves".

Sure they can, but it doesn't mean they are competent to do so. I have been subject to and witnessed dozens of adjournments where a mishap on paperwork leads to a thrown out case, tenant getting away with another month or the landlord losing a claim.

Prior to 2012, did you know that tenants could "piggy back" off landlord applications without paying anything? It is still possible to do this now unless the landlord makes a specific objection.

Nowadays adjudicators are so power hungry, I have been told to "shush" and "shut up" on one occasion, where my objection had full merit (speaking about settlement terms in the hearing and other causes).

The easy, self represented tribunal system is flawed and naive when it applies strict rules to people who have no legal training. Specifically, legal help for tenants is available on site, but nothing for landlords.

In 9 years I have evicted over 12 people from a house and two apartments. In total we have had, at best, 2-3 AMAZING tenants. The others were filled with empty promises and lead me to lose all compassion and empathy for non-paying tenants. We had a few "career tenants", one of which moved in, didnt pay the 2nd month rent.... a month and a half later, after we got the sheriff to open the door, the mess looked like someone didnt clean up for 6 months. The bastard bought a full groceries worth of meat, put it in the fridge and unplugged it.

There are slumbag landlords, but even more dirtbag tenants out there. My favourite was the one that ran off without paying 2-3 months and left the google map directions to their new place in the recycling bin.
 
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Mr.Azim said:
I do the landlord thing with my Dad (I do all the court/legal action stuff). I am 100% opposed to the Landlord and Tenant Board and government Tribunals are supposed to make the legal process "Faster and more affordable because people can represent themselves".

Sure they can, but it doesn't mean they are competent to do so. I have been subject to and witnessed dozens of adjournments where a mishap on paperwork leads to a thrown out case, tenant getting away with another month or the landlord losing a claim.

Prior to 2012, did you know that tenants could "piggy back" off landlord applications without paying anything? It is still possible to do this now unless the landlord makes a specific objection.

Nowadays adjudicators are so power hungry, I have been told to "shush" and "shut up" on one occasion, where my objection had full merit (speaking about settlement terms in the hearing and other causes).

The easy, self represented tribunal system is flawed and naive when it applies strict rules to people who have no legal training. Specifically, legal help for tenants is available on site, but nothing for landlords.

In 9 years I have evicted over 12 people from a house and two apartments. In total we have had, at best, 2-3 AMAZING tenants. The others were filled with empty promises and lead me to lose all compassion and empathy for non-paying tenants. We had a few "career tenants", one of which moved in, didnt pay the 2nd month rent.... a month and a half later, after we got the sheriff to open the door, the mess looked like someone didnt clean up for 6 months. The bastard bought a full groceries worth of meat, put it in the fridge and unplugged it.

There are slumbag landlords, but even more dirtbag tenants out there. My favourite was the one that ran off without paying 2-3 months and left the google map directions to their new place in the recycling bin.
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Some of the tenants' mentality are, we're paying you money, so we're entitled to X
 
I know a couple that played the game and left the landlord on the hook for IIRC about 30 thousand. All the check in the mail, renegotiate etc scams. If you met them they seemed to be nice people and professionals to boot. Same crap as the OP's link.

A friend was sharing a rented condo with another guy and the owner decided to rent the extra room out. A tenent from hell, the easiest way to get rid of him was to sell the unit. TV full blast all hours. Hygene issues that would make you puke etc.

Why don't they make more rental housing units???? Guess!
 
I've had one difficult renter out of the four I've had so far. She still paid her rent but it was often late and the place was in bad shape when she was done, but not a major deal.

Don't you guys check referrals and credit rating? If you're not convinced they're good folk, move on. Or your place is a dump and no one reliable would choose to live there?
 
you only really remember the bad tenants anyway.

I've had more success with viewit.ca and referrals from friends, than through craigslist and kijiji, fwiw.
 
I only rent to upper year students/grad students and have had good ones so far. I'm a live in landlord so I can keep an eye on things too and this also scares away the party seekers. You can also report students to the University under a code of conduct thing that affects their graduation etc. If I ever did have any serious problems like this I would like to think I would follow the law....but to be honest I'd probably change the locks, shift their crap out and have a very large mean looking friend come round to stay for when they come back and I would be "away on vacation" and not able to answer the phone.

I have had some odd requests though....people with zero means trying to rent the room or requests to move a small family into one bedroom etc. I always demand references and make sure everyone knows the house rules. I say no pets and would tell people that my dog is aggressively violent toward other animals but fine with people.

To summarise...if the tenant is pleasant, honest and well behaved with me I'll always reciprocate. If they tell me not to cash a cheque for a week I'll do that occasionally. If they act like a ****** though I'll do the same.
 
I'm subletting right now and the landlord of the place came to talk to me bacause apparently the other tenants having been paying their rent and might be getting evicted soon. Most of the rent goes to him through their disabilitly but there's still $200/month for over a year they haven't been paying. It pisses me off because they're just lazy, and sit at home playing on facebook all day instead of getting a part time job at timmies or something. That and for people who can't afford $200/month, they sure have a lot of pets (4 cats, 2 dogs, a turtle, fish, rabbit and now two guenie pigs), eat out a lot and drink. Oh, and I just learned after living with them for 4 months, that they went to jail for fraud becaus ethey kept collecting government money for their kids even after chil services took them away. So now they might be getting evicted which means I'll be screwed too, and I pay my rent the last week of every month for the next month. Gah!
 
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Where is your house located?
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Pickering.

Funny story: My sister's neighbour had some trashy family living in their basement under the table and their kids were wrecking it and wouldn't move out. They gave keys to some of their Rasta friends from downtown who "moved in" to the basement with them. The family lasted a couple of days and were gone. lol
 
It's unfortunate that there are so many a-hole deadbeat and dirty as sin renters out there. They ruin renting for those people who are not deadbeats and dirty. E.g., no one would rent a house to me because I have a dog. I'm one of those neat freak people, and always clean up after my dog (who is also quiet and not destructive at all). But of course irresponsible jerks ruin it for the rest of us.
 
Another funny story.

My BIL was renting out a house to a couple that let things go to the point he was able to legally evict them and put their stuff on the front lawn. Expecting trouble he called the police and started moving stuff out. A cop noticed bags of garbage in a kids bedroom and called childrens aid. My BIL called the renter at work to let him know what was going on. The renter showed up all hyper yelling about this is all his stuff. The cop asked if it was all his stuff and the guy says "Every bit" Cop points to a bag of weed on a dresser and says "This too?"
 
Amazon said:
I'm subletting right now and the landlord of the place came to talk to me bacause apparently the other tenants having been paying their rent and might be getting evicted soon. Most of the rent goes to him through their disabilitly but there's still $200/month for over a year they haven't been paying. It pisses me off because they're just lazy, and sit at home playing on facebook all day instead of getting a part time job at timmies or something. That and for people who can't afford $200/month, they sure have a lot of pets (4 cats, 2 dogs, a turtle, fish, rabbit and now two guenie pigs), eat out a lot and drink. Oh, and I just learned after living with them for 4 months, that they went to jail for fraud becaus ethey kept collecting government money for their kids even after chil services took them away. So now they might be getting evicted which means I'll be screwed too, and I pay my rent the last week of every month for the next month. Gah!
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Living with convicted felons? Sounds like fun
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