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How? If I stop paying rent, I will be kicked out within 2 months. Someone tell me again how bad Québec is?

A criminal case should be formed if found that the tenant was in good financial condition and was able to pay rent, but was negligent to pay. Tenants rights should end if found criminally negligent about paying rent.

Such owners should not pay mortgage and they should also be protected by law as the renters.

It's pointless now to buy secondary residence. You got bad tenants who don't pay and you got government who charges you for capital gains. It's risky investment

Please, blame the govt. I don’t think citizens or immigrants are to blame. Finding stable work in Canada is a challenge these days even for permanent residents/new citizens. No guarantee of work even after acing an interview and building skills as needed. At this point I feel like immigrants are just tax paying scapegoats, who are used by the government and hated by local people. This is not real inclusiveness. Govt must give priority to their citizens and encourage immigration if there are real opportunities to offer. Everyone needs work and stability inorder to live a civilized and stable life. Calling loads and loads here to benefit the economy and politicians just be called third world trash isn’t fair.

The government should pay her rent since she can't pay her rent. If she was the owner, she would not like someone to do this to her. I would like to know if she is employed? They are taking advantage of Canada rules of owners and tenant. I hope they will have a resolution of this matter very soon.

Dear Canada, if you stop putting your nose in other country's affairs and stop following your big bully cousin, USA in meddling in evry corner of the world with the not-funny anymore DEMOCRACY, perhaps, people in Africa and middle east would leave their homeland less to move to your country; and, the Canadian people can pay less tax and keep their living standard.

Let the scam colleges pay their fare back home.

It's crazy how Canadians who pay taxes think, against Canadians who don't pay taxes ?

Canada, like Australia and etc., faces a fundamental issue that makes it reliant on—or even more severely, dependent on—immigration. Of course discussing this fundamental issue is inappropriate for Canadians. The housing crisis is not caused by immigrants. While you can criticize immigration policies, they are merely the straw that broke the camel's back. It's similar to inflation; like, even if it remains at 2% per year, we will still experience the peaks and troughs of business cycles, just less intensely. Sure you can have a public housing program, where does that money come from? More and more tax money. Having to work harder to only end up with paying more taxes for those who either did not have the opporunities or didn't work as hard (who cares what the actual reasons are), just feels like a ripoff.

I would love to come and visit, but not in this disgraceful manner, i would pay my ticket go the embassy to apply for a visa holiday come through the airport legitimately on a sight seeing holiday and return to my own nation once my holiday time is up.

Canadian law favours our criminals & law abiding citizens are the ones who get shafted smh. It’s one thing for an honest person to go broke for one reason or another & I can have empathy for them & even wanna help in the short term . However , what she is doing is clearly just taking advantage of the situation & more than likely has the funds to pay she just won’t do it.

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

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.

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.

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 .

Jail her and pay the landlord from her CPP contributions!!

From one side Im sorry for them…We should expect even more of them since Israel actions recently…On the other hand they pay 5-10 000€ / person to get here…Salaries there are 200-300€ max, so how they should afford that? Why they are not going somewhere safe and try to make visa or do it in a legal way?

I have a rental property, and the tenant refused to pay and leave. All i did was bug her. Call the cops. I didnt care.

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.

i feel so sorry for this man. Can he stop paying the electricity bill?

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....

My neighbours had a similar situation they ended up paying their tenant $5k to move out

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

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.

Build more prisons.\nThat's free labor..\n\nOur 13 amendment states\nSlavery is illegal except for felons.\n They trying to get that 15k food stamps and 5k cash.\nWhen i cant pay my bills.\nWTF \nWe are so corrupt.\nI guess only law breakers are the ones who win.

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

I don't understand how people get away with this? .. if there is a legal lease agreement not paying should be considered theft..

So she has to pay OR leave? What about leave AND pay the back rent (41k). ?????

I am a renter who has been evicted before because of a somewhat questionable N-12. I didn't fight it because I knew I would lose in the end. However, if I had fought it I would have still payed my rent. Always pay your rent.

Bro I would rather keep my money in the bank than purchasing a house and renting it to some low life who won’t pay me rent. The law is always on the tenants side so why go through the hassle. It’s just pathetic.

I’m not sure if it does already, but if it doesn’t, this is the perfect reason why paying rent on time should be tied to your credit score. If you missed payments, your credit score should take a hit.

Why is he paying for the utilities? Is he affraid of the retaliation? Because if he stops oaying they csn shut off her electrical etc

So why does the system work for her but not for the actual owner? That’s broken and she should be convicted and evicted, she’s using it for her own benefit and should be punished. Just pay for a PI to watch her when she leaves go change the locks and that’s it, pretty simple.

So welcoming…unless you are deaf or have any sort of disability. Even if you have a job in a high paying shortage profession.

So sick of these kind of people.. they are the problem with the system! Do they not realize they will have to pay this man in rent owing in the End!? Just pay your Rent!

And the government will raise taxes on the middle class to pay for the housing problem. Always the same, steal from peter to pay paul. Put the brakes on liberals

So I'm wondering here if the tenant has not paid utilities, why is the landlord still paying to keep lights on. can the landlord not pay utilities and just have the lights and water turn off?? And this will then kick the tenant out?

We here in Europe dont have the money to support them, they borrow and we the citizens will pay with taxes. This is crazy !!!\nThey will not be able to work, they need to learn language and so much more.....

Back in 1998 I was laid off and waiting for U.I/E.I to kick in and send a cheque and was 2 months behind on rent, they had me in L/T Tribunal Court at St Clair/Yonge before my 1st cheque was mailed, I wasn't kicked out but had to agree to pay my full rent on the 1st from that point and $200 each month on the 15th til I caught up on arrears (took 1 year) if I had been late once on either date they could have re opened the L/T Tribunal case and kicked me out. If I couldn't have paid I would have moved out, that's the difference between those born before 1990 and after, morals and having a conscience, lacking in most Millennials and Z's because X mothers didn't want to discipline their 90s babies or make them responsible adults.

Landlords should have the right to Kick non paying tennants out after 30 days. Its a business not a charity shelter its ridiculous change the Laws

I think I saw that young woman on the news a while ago saying her rent was going up . two sisters anyways . I'm sorry to her about her sister. but you have a rental agreement with Mr Singh and should adhere to it or get out . and the other people should get out of that house also or keep paying your rent till you come to an agreement with the owner of the home in Brampton . the law has to change .

you gotta be special kind of person who has a brand new truck but you are not paying the rent even though you are running a trucking company

As a landlord - I had this happen to me .\n$35k in unpaid rent which I never got back after the tenant moved out .\nI learnt that the tenant had done this to 2 other landlords prior .\nIt’s a shame - my house was priced fairly and was a brand new home . There was no reason to pay other than greed .\nI have since sold the home and moved on : it’s one less home for people who can’t afford to buy at the moment to rent .\nThis stupid system needs to be overhauled .

Look, the challenging housing market is not this man's problem to fix. He rented his home out, they agreed on terms, she violated them repeatedly. What do you want from him, hes a charity?? He's just a man with a home. He shouldnt be demonized. Anybody can do the same if they want to. This is the simplest concept in society. You dont pay, you leave. I dont know what people are going on about saying he should know the risks, like he's a fool.

How can people afford to pay rent?They end up setting up tents in the streets....they shouldn't have let housing prices go up in BC years ago....

I've got behind on my rent in the past. \nI lived out my last month's rent. \nI'm sorry to the landlord I couldn't pay $2,400 in 2 months. \nBut I left so I gave them no further aggravation and problems so we could all move on. \nI put myself on the street and lost everything. \nEventually I got back on my feet got my own place. \nNot keeping these good landlords supporting me. \nI love this man he sounds like a good man good luck sir you're the kind of immigrants we need in this country to have full-time citizenship you work so hard to get where you are today❤

In Manitoba it’s a little bit easier but the RTB is such a drawn out process. \n\nYou need to have justifying grounds. Easy. They didn’t pay. You have to serve them their termination, with a minimum of five business days to vacate. This is where it gets tricky. You have to attempt at least 3 times on different dates at different times of the day. Usually around 7:00 AM, Noon, around 7:00 PM. If that fails. You have to pay to be allowed to post the notice on the door. After that you have declare they’ve been served. Then book a hearing which can take a month or more. At the hearing which can take hours or minutes depending on how well prepared you are, or how much the tenant wants to argue. \n\nOnce the hearing is concluded. It can take 1-2 weeks to get the final decision. If they’re told to vacate. They usually have 5 business days before you can involve law enforcement. Which then takes another week for them to show up. Finally the landlord can change the locks. \n\nExcept, the tenant can then file an appeal. And take the landlord back into a hearing which can take another month. If the tenant fails to change the verdict it’s final. Then you need permission from the RTB to send them to collections, which can then take months if ever, to get the money back.

Renting is the worst business in Canada. And the Toronto, Ontario and Canada Governements wonder why there is shortage of rental accommodations. I can easily accommodate one family in my home. But I know if there is an epidemic like Covid and the tenant does not pay the rent, I will be screwed. And rather than have a plan that can enable a tenant own a home, the Governments mentioned have plans that will make the landlord bankrupt and become a tenant! The tenancy laws are bad, bad, bad!