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Moral of all these horror stories is forget renting. It's best to invest in the market and sleep sound at night.

Tenants unable to pay rent\nShould just be out on the streets \nAnd join the homeless!!\n\n\nThis landlord has been taken advantage of right from the start \n\nRenting out your apartment to dishonest people is the worst thing to happen

Can you imagine!! living rent free!!! gross just evil and gross!

Most people in Canada do like immigrants and try and want to accept newcomers . I am happy to see new faces younger people, people with a different outlook. However this lack of housing is a major problem for poor and lower middle class people - citizens and noncitizens. Unfortunately rents are a racket in most cities, the real estate business is full of unnumbered accounts and money laundering; Canada is full of organized crime from all over the world, we cant control foreign attempts at killing our citizen. So we can tell our government is not efficient and is doing a poor jobHowever I dont think the average immigrant is the problem and I feel they are treated like rubes by our government and taken advantage of and so are Canadians of different ethnic backgrounds who also suffer the same problems of many immigrants. That's the truth. Letting people in with out providing opportunities for jobs, housing, support is foolish and destructive to our country. Our politicians are selling us down the drain-i.e. all those who are not in the upper middle class or the elites. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!! VOTE FOR CHANGE !

It is exactly the same dynamic in the US. There is a pull of immigrants into the country by moneyed interests. Those who make money from selling essential goods, those who own properties to rent, those who gain from higher cost of homes, those who want to keep wages low, all benefit from the influx of immigrants. They are creating this flow.

In Alberta province u dont pay rent for a month u will be kicked out. \nSo why cant Ford governments bring same law to ontario.

I live in rural Atlantic Canada. There is lots and lots of land not being used. People driving long distances from their huge single family home to get to town or the city. If no Canadians are moving to the country side to start homesteads, then why not immigrants. I don't see the point of someone moving to a local small town to work in a Tim Hortons or not if there is no job available and buy franken foods from huge corporations. Instead if some immigrants want a homesteading life (some probably would), give people grants to make apartments in their huge single family farmhouses left from the days when people had ten kids, and subdivide their land so the new people can farm it. The local people can get rent money and payment for the subdivision and still have a large plot of land left over). Grow the local farmers markets! Grow the small towns to what they were 100 years ago! Make it so people only had to drive to the city when they wanted to, not for work. There is so so much empty land out here used for massive lawns.

$ 1400 a month rent free , I'm Canadian I get A $ 750 a month pension . I wanna be a migrant .

I hate to say it but look who’s next paying there rent, now ask yourself are you shocked ??

And people wonder why some would rather keep their property empty than rent it out.

if you rented a car and don't pay or machines, tools or appliances (though most of the time you have to pay up front), they have option to chase you up with additional fines and send to debt collection even after you've returned the item if you didn't pay up upon return. But rents arrears don't usually remain after tenants moved out because landlord are not companies able to chase them up.

Must be nice to live rent free in luxurious condo mean while people are juggling 3 jobs just to pay rent at a crappy appartment

To avoid future problems, just don’t rent your units to these people. \n\nThey have extra rights that’s you don’t have. They are allowed to take goods out of the store without paying. They can be captured for serious crimes in the morning and being bailed out in the evening.

Government will tax vacant unit and not punish offenders for not paying rent. Welcome to Canada.

That is why I would never rent my property to anyone. Not even to God. I don't trust anyone. The government created the housuing crisis by giving tenents the rights to screw property owners.

Kinda strange how it's people of color who don't wanna pay rent

Sorry if you rent someone’s place and take advantage of the situation we’ll try to make other arrangements sorry . She wants to live in condo and you choose not to pay the rent . renters are taking advantage hope this is a learning lessons to owners .

What’s that woman is finally evicted after Owen $46,000 I hope she is well blacklisted from buying renting or even living underneath a bridge

You shouldn't rented any but you are too greedy

This legislation needs to be changed to support the landlords and if the the federal , provincial and municipal levels provides incentives to landlords maybe people wouldn’t withhold rent. Olivia Chow invited people to Toronto and the NDp will support you.

This is awful because good citizens are loosing opportunities to rent decent affordable housing because the trust is lost. It’s a crime

This will result in increased squalling and unpaid rent because they know they can when Tribunals Ontario doesn't do anything to protect landlords. Our liberal government is garbage.

Don't forget to plaster her face all over Facebook and Instagram as a bad tenant and payer. Make sure that when she finally gets kicked out, no one else will rent to her.

She did her plastic surgery, make up, and luxury clothes instead of paying rent. Lol

$41.6K over 4 years= about $866/month in rent. That woman is getting a great deal and is still abusing the poor man...

It is not fair to the landlords renters those don’t pay rents for years. \nLandlords have to spend money to up keep the properties.\nNot that renters don’t pay they also sue landlords if something go wrong.. They should and must put theirs feet in landlords shoes and see how they feel.

Happened to us, our tenants were in our home and owe is $35K in rent. Meanwhile had a 100k SUV in their driveway. Canada is a joke?

Well my house to taken over by convicts and out of compassion me and my wife gave them our house, as we didn’t know how absurd the laws are to evict a bad tenant.\n\nI being helpless called police and email PM helpline , housing minister, but nothing happened till 4 months, they destroyed my property, and still owe me 14k rent plus utilities, excluding the damages and property mess they created. \n\nWe were terrified , they had two big rescues dogs and would threat us if we come to ask for house check or rent , they would release the dogs on us. \n\nI still have tenant body order for money claim, but my family suggested to leave and move on . But then i think , they would do the same with what ever place they try to move.\n\nWhy would government not spare out property tax or give the home owner the loss of property amount. \n\nYou miss the tax the government pr bank come after you with all the forces. \n\nIts like the house crises , the government want to say , let the stupid home owners eradicate that issue and them let they suffer from the bad tenants abuse the so called tenant laws. \n\nI know my family had to go through.

Wish there were as many people pissed off at the housing crises as they are at this one person who’s not paying her rent. Maybe if landlords provided affordable housing there would be less people not paying their rent.

As a former Ontario landlord, key word being former, DO NOT RENT ANY UNITS OUT IN ONTARIO! Rent is the only thing the government allows you to steal. If I owned a corner store and I caught people stealing candy bars from me, then found out it takes at least a year to get a hearing with the CandyBay Tribunal to force thieves from walking off with my candy bars.....I WOULD STOP SELLING CANDY BARS! If you are renting a property in Ontario, your tenants could stop paying you. Then use 'Cash For Keys' to extort you for dozens of thousands of dollars, in plain words, EXTORTION. This is the cold reality of Ontario, find another way to make money....

Press4Humanity: Epic fail by government. Nothing is free. Pay your damn rent!

The landlord tenants board is a complete waste of time, how about seizing her assets to cover back rent?

Thats why you never rent your condo to a nika

Personally I think it’s not worth relying on rent pay for your retirement… stock portfolio would be better. If you want real estate income, then buy publicly traded REITs, and even the REITs, buy multiple of them and spread the risk across. If your retirement relies on income from a few tenants, those few tenants can really screw you over in your retirement. Feel bad for the man.

Everywhere, it’s the rich that are causing most of the problems. They are luring in the immigrants. They are the ones causing the rent increases. They are the ones not providing affordable housing. And on and on it goes.

She looks like criminal mind set. She must be thrown out from the house. How come she is having 3 meals, coffee and other luxury. Pay rent or leave. Dont take advantage of Canadian laws.

Sue the city. It’s because of them that this is happening. Best not to rent to anyone.

When owners can keep property without paying mortgage how can tenets live without paying rent !!

This is a big part of the reason why we have a housing crisis. Nobody wants to invest their money in creating rental units if they can’t collect rent, so that reduces the supply of rental units. Less supply equals higher prices. Landlords also have to charge more to account for potential lost rent in this system. So in the end the stolen free rent is simply paid for by other renters who get passed on the higher prices

Shes behind 41k in rent... and missed 2 months payments ?

Sad part is Jagmeet Singh is pushing for MORE tentant rights to make this even more difficult. I'm dealing with similar situation, massive repairs stiffed on rent, thankfully it's not Ontario or BC. If they ever go to buy a house now they will have outstanding court order against them.

Tenants done pay rent, Landlord is terrified and leaves Investment property vacant. Govt charges vacant tax. Landlord hikes rent to cover interest and past dues, tenant stops paying again. Govt collects tax from both.

Lol Toronto, 41k is probably the monthly rent.

Renting to a Somalian was his first mistake

If a thousand renters work together, they could avoid paying $41,600,000 that they would ordinarily have paid in rent. Using that money, they could start a credit card company. A credit card company doesn't have to extend much credit to one person, and it can charge high interest rates.

I would put clause in rental agreement if rent isn't paid we can move back in, move anyone we want in with them.

It's worse in commie BC. No point renting anything in this province, zero landlord rights, landlords and seen and treated like criminals as everyone complains about the lack of housing.

If theres BEEN no payments, then yeah it makes sense to evict. But if theyre expecting 41k monthly that would be ridiculous. Dont get how she stacked that many months without paying rent and didn't get kicked out alot sooner. Police could remove her

That why people are holding their properties and not renting them anymore. Letting someone live for free is the norm.

If the state wants to allow these scabs to stay in rental properties, they should pay the rent.