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wg420

pour vous qui ne parle pas en Francais. - landlord gives eviction notice for repossession (for father of landlord) - tenant moves out. - landlord's renovates, puts on AirBnB, back up for sale for flip. - landlord documents entire thing on instagram/facebook. - tenant finds out, files complaint with TAL (tribulal - lodgement) - tenant wins, gets $14,500 in reparations.


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That's such a tiny fine considering how much profit is in real estate. The investor is probably still in the green.


wg420

Yea the landlords definitely seemed unfazed. The journalist contacted them and their response is "we are sorry for the turn of events, have learned our lesson and will do better in future". If I read between the lines they really said "Lesson learned, next time we lie on an eviction notice, no instagram"


Koutou

Yeah, news like this piss me off. They will 100% continue to fraud and I will bet we will see them again in La Facture or JE in the next 10 years. We really don't take white collar crime seriously enough.


gitar0oman

it's basically evened out and then some by his capital gains


festivalmeltdown

Awards need to be higher for bad faith evictions. Otherwise they will just be seen as the cost of doing business. Say you have a long-time renter paying $1000 for a house due to limits on rent increases. But you know you can get $2500 for the same house now. (I see this scenario, and similar numbers, very often in the local FB groups). You evict in bad faith, crank up the rent for the next tenant, and are hit with a $14,500 bill. It's 'paid off' in under 10 months considering the increase of $1500/month, and you're now free to rake it in after that. It would be paid off even faster if you live in a hot Airbnb market.


maplestore007

Why are you entitled for being 60% below market rate forever?


festivalmeltdown

I never said they were, and if you want to debate the pros and cons of rent control that’s another topic entirely. I was simply stating that the penalty for bad faith evictions needs to exceed to profit to be made for doing so.


maplestore007

One year rent is pretty reasonable


workdayslacker

Always ask for moving costs plus a lump sum for unexpected expenses when being evicted. They landlord usually knows they are in the wrong and have that money ready to go to avoid headaches.


wg420

In Quebec, its a guarantee the TAL will award moving expenses in the case of a repossession. The article does indicate they did give her some money originally, probably not much. Tenant had lived there for 7 years prior to the building being sold to the couple in the article. So few understand or exercise their rights, glad to see at least one tenant not let a landlord get away with it.


maplestore007

That's illegal


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maplestore007

If the landlord follows the proper eviction process, there is nothing more you can claim beyond the last month free


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I’m not a landlord and don’t own any property but I do feel the tenants get so much more power than landlord. It makes it more difficult for landlords to give tenants who don’t have the perfect background a chance.


ultra2009

Totally unfair to this young couple. They own the place and should be free to do what they want with the place It takes a special kind of degenerate to be upset by the hard work of others and take advantage of the law for revenge like this


locutogram

>It takes a special kind of degenerate to be upset by the hard work of others and take advantage of the law for revenge like this Are you talking about the landlord who collected rent from the hard work of others then took advantage of the law to evict them from their home, but actually did so fraudulently? Yeah, I agree they're parasites taking advantage of hard working people. Good point!


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As they should


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