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Bitter feud ensues after landlord's failed attempt to raise tenants' rent 65% (www.cbc.ca)
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A New Brunswick tenant says he’s being pushed out of his rented bungalow as retribution for complaining about his landlord, but his landlord says she’s the victim of an unfair tenancy tribunal ruling that is preventing her from using the unit to house family.

Jonathan King and his landlord, Ashmin Goolab, have been embroiled in a bitter year-long dispute involving a notice of a 65 per cent rent increase, a failed eviction attempt, and claims that the unit is needed to house Goolab's mother-in-law.

King, who lives in Chipman, said Goolab is trying to force him and his wife out of their affordably priced bungalow in an effort to circumvent New Brunswick's rent cap, and as retribution for a complaint he made about being given improper notice to alter their lease.

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[–] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I rented out my house while I was working out of town, I had exactly the same attitude. I just wanted someone that wasn't going to trash the place, so I found someone that wasn't an asshole and gave them a deal for a few years.

I had another place years before that where I thought I was giving someone a similar deal and they paid me back by absolutely gutting the place, even pulled the copper plumbing out of the walls. Cost me tens of thousands even after insurance. I had trust issues after that bullshit.

I know Lemmy hates landlords, but the fucking shit I've seen from renters would stagger people's minds. Had a place where the kids wrote on all the walls with Sharpies and the carpet was covered with orange koolaid stains that wouldn't clean out, had to tear out all the carpets.

I knew a guy that rented a place to a RCMP and when he went in there one day to fix something, he found a stack of used diapers at the bottom of the basement stairs where they were tossing them for several weeks. Couldn't evict them for that, had to give full notice because the board sided with the cop.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    People are weird.

    Had a neighbour who just left the basement door open and threw a bag of dog food on the floor for their dog and left for three weeks. I didn’t know what was going on or I’d have called someone - anyone. They were homeowners.

    Over COVID I heard the apocryphal stories of support payments going out and landlords getting stiffed as they watched new TVs being delivered. I don’t believe a lot of that, though.

    I do think that short of a serious effort to acquire, build, maintain, and expand public housing, small scale landlords are an important part of society. But they need a lot of controls and limits, and tenants likewise need to have reasonable respect for the property. It’s not always the case but I feel a small scale landlord is better positioned to be (and certainly isn’t always, as in this case) connected to the community than BlackRock.

    It would be nice to have a public record for tenants and landlords to share warnings about bad behaviour, but that sort of thing gets corrupted so quickly.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    That one reminds me of a place my dad went in to rehabilitate for the credit union my mother worked for that had repossessed it. Former owners had left the dogs in one of the bedrooms, presumably all the time for a couple years. There was six inches of dogshit on the floor, only spot clear was where they opened the door to be able to throw more dogfood, all the empty bags were in there as well.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, there are assholes on both sides of the landlord tenant dealings.

    I saw a reddit post once of a tenant complaining the landlord was withholding the damage deposit due to new stove top needed. The tenant was looking for sympathy and shared a photo of the stove top. It was the glass top style and looked like the tenant had claned it for a few years by scrubbing the surface with 40 grit sandpaper and used angle grinders on the baked on part.

    A family member managed a low income building:
    There were tenants who removed all the plastic switch plates and plug covers, and pulled all the baseboard and door jamb frames off.

    One had a closet full of garbage and human feces. Toilet worked fine.

    One had a water leak they never reported and the entire lower kitchen cabinets looked like it was being eaten by an alien tentecle creature made of black mold.

    People just aren't well, whether its a tenant or a shitty money grabbing landlord

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