Tenant advocacy groups, be warned! You are not going to like what I’m about to show you.
But I share your outrage, I really do.
Even though I believe that tenancy laws in Ontario are, in certain areas, overwhelmingly and unnecessarily in favour of tenants, that doesn’t mean I would flaunt the rules, or give credit to those who do.
I’m beyond frustrated with how difficult it is to evict a drug-dealer, illegal AirBnB’er, or professional con-artist who doesn’t pay the rent. The Landlord & Tenant Board is a joke. I have no idea why they bend over backwards to protect criminals and punish landlords, but that’s a topic for another day.
Today, I want to talk about the “good rules,” which are being trampled on by many landlords throughout the city of Toronto.
I have two emails from blog readers who asked for my advice.
The first is simply a letter from a property manager to the tenants, whereas the second is an entire email chain.
Both are great examples of illegal evictions in Toronto, and can serve as a lesson to tenants for how to identify when you’re being taken advantage of, as well as to landlords in explaining how not to conduct your business.
Here’s the first email, and I have changed the landlord’s name to “John Smith,” and redacted a few items, but everything else is verbatim…
Good afternoon girls I am sending this official notice on behalf of John Smith regarding the end of your tenancy at suite (redacted) at (redacted) Bay st. As mentioned earlier Mr. Smith sadly will be looking to sell the unit and will need to be do some work on the unit first to get it to the point of a reasonable sale price.
A move out date of May 01, 2020 is preferable to Mr. Smith – however as discussed we will be extending that to May 04, 2020 in order to make arrangements easier on you (such as booking elevators etc that can be problematic on the last or first day of the month)
Both myself and Mr. Smith would like to thank you for being such great tenants over the years – and as thanks we would not look to apply any lease cancellation fees should you find a suitable new home before May and any owed rent would be returned to you accordingly.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any assistance during this process and I would gladly offer a reference for any of you should you require it.
(Name Redacted)
Vice President
(Redacted) Apartments
416-….
This really makes my blood boil. So much so, in fact, that I thought long and hard about leaving the full email signature above, but I don’t need the ensuing headache.
There are several issues with this, but let’s start with the obvious.
First and foremost, a landlord cannot evict a tenant because he or she is going to be selling the condo. Full stop.
A landlord can evict a tenant if he or she, or a member of his or her immediate family intends to move into the condo for a period of twelve months or more.
The buyer of the condo, once the condo is listed for sale, can evict the tenant, so long as the buyer or a member of the buyer’s immediate family plans to occupy the unit.
There is no debating this. This is not a grey area.
In the case above, the landlord wants to sell the condo, so good for him! He wants to “do some work” on the unit, great. But that does not mean he can legally evict the tenant. He can “renovict,” as the saying goes, if he is planning on a “substantial renovation,” but he then must offer the condo back to the original tenant.
“Do some work” to the unit to achieve a “reasonable sale price” does not sound like a substantial renovation. Let’s not pretend this is some sort of misunderstanding. This is an attempt at an illegal eviction, make no mistake.
So the landlord has two options here, legally-speaking:
1) Ask the tenant to leave early, and leave the choice up to them.
2) Sell the condo with the tenant attached.
That’s it! It’s that simple!
If, in situation (1), the tenant does not want to leave voluntarily, the landlord can offer them money. “How much for you to sign the Form N11? Two thousand? Three thousand?” This is how it’s supposed to work.
Speaking of which, that brings me to my second issue: there’s no mention in this property manager’s email about a month’s rent as compensation, which is also law.
I cannot believe that a licensed property manager sent this letter.
Last, but certainly not least, I don’t like this subtle threat: “…we would not look to apply any lease cancellation fees should you find a suitable new home before May and any owed rent would be returned to you accordingly.”
This is brilliant work on behalf of the property manager, who is basically paying them with their own money. Illegally evicting them, and then saying that they won’t charge them a lease cancellation fee.
Oh, the nerve!
“Hey, get out. Now. And if you get out now, early, we won’t charge you a fee for doing so.”
What the eff?
Did this really happen?
Yes, sadly.
The tenants signed an N11 and agreed, voluntarily, to leave, without any compensation. I have a copy of the letter sent from the property manager to the tenants.
Had these tenants known their rights, they would have laughed at that letter detailed above. They would have told the landlord that he can buy them out, or that they wanted to stay, and that the new owner can give them legal notice after the unit is sold.
Look, I see it from both sides. I come across situations like this all the time. But I abide by the law, that’s the difference.
A couple of months ago, a reader reached out and said that she was looking to sell her downtown condo this spring, and that there was a tenant in the unit. The tenant had been there for a decade, and the unit wasn’t in great shape.
I told her that unquestionably, she would get a massive premium if she had the ability to clean, paint, and stage the condo, and allow unfettered access for a week of buyer-showings, before an offer night for all interested parties. I further suggested that if the unit wasn’t in great shape, then it would greatly benefit us to put in $5-10K before listing.
But then I told her the bad news: she couldn’t give the tenant legal notice to vacate so that we could either, (a) sell the condo, (b) renovate and then sell the condo.
As I said above, you can only evict to renovate if you are doing a substantial renovation, and you have to give the tenant the first right of refusal once the unit is ready to be occupied again.
So for “Mr. Smith” above, there is absolutely, positively, zero chance that the letter his property manager sent on his behalf is some sort of misunderstanding, since the tenants’ rights weren’t mentioned, nor was the right of first refusal, nor was the “substantial renovation.”
As for my blog reader, I told her to simply email the tenant and explain that she would be selling, and that he had every right to remain in the unit during the sale, and that the buyer would likely give notice to vacate, if the buyer was going to move into the unit. I further advised her to give him the option to start looking for a place, and that if he needed two, three, or four months to find something suitable, that she would wait.
In the end, he agreed to start looking. He said he realized that the buyer of the condo would eventually evict him, so that he may as well move now and help her cause, on account of being a great landlord for a decade.
He’s moving out, we’re renovating, staging, and selling in the spring.
That’s legal, and that works for all parties. And had he said, “I’m not leaving,” we could have moved on to Plan-B, or Plan-C, but never “Plan-illegally-evict.”
My second illegal eviction is a thing of beauty, since I have all the emails back-and-forth, but also because the tenants did know their rights.
This is great, have a look.
I’m going to change the names of the parties involved here…
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February 15th, 2020:
Landlord email to Tenants:
Hi Daniel and Jessica,
Happy family day! Hope you are doing well!
We are just wondering werther you plan on staying in our unit for the next year? If this is the case we would be pleased to discuss the extension agreement.
Thank you and have a great weekend!
Oksana and Viktor
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February 16th, 2020
Tenants’ Response To Landlord:
Hi Oksana,
Thanks so much for reaching out! We are planning on staying for another year!
Also, I checked yesterday and I don’t think February’s rent had been taken out – do you have a cheque for February?
Thanks!
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February 16th, 2020:
Landlord’s Response To Tenants:
Hi Daniel & Jessica,
Thank you for your reply and willingness to stay for another year. We had the cheque for February and the rent was taken out.
We have contacted our real estate agent and he shared with us the average rental fees for similar 2 bedrooms units in our building and in the nearby buildings. We got a response that it various 2800-3000 per month. We propose to increase the fee to 2600 per month for our unit and parking. You can check with your real estate agent the fees and get back to us on this offer.
Thanks,
Oksana and Viktor
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February 17th, 2020:
Tenants’ Response To Landlord:
Hi Oksana,
Thanks for reaching out!
In the Province of Ontario, you can’t raise rents on buildings built before 1991 by the rent increase guideline. In 2020, the guideline was 2.2%. Therefore, the amount you can raise our rent this year is by $50.60. We are happy to comply with the $50 increase. Please find attached the link to the Ontario government website below:
https://www.ontario.ca/page/rent-increase-guideline
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you!
Jessica
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February 18th, 2020
Landlord’s Response To Tenants:
Hi Jessica,
Sorry to hear that we cannot find a compromise. You were great tenants . We didn’t increase the fee last year and we have significant increase for maintenance fees two years in a row. We will notify you on the next steps soon.
Thanks,
Oksana and Viktor
Good for Jessica, right?
BOOM!
Take that, Oksana!
Jessica clearly knew her rights, and stuck it to Oksana right away, although she was super-nice about it.
And what did Oksana do? She immediately went on the offensive. She used past-tense and said, “You were great tenants.”
Then she tried to kick them out illegally.
“We will notify you on the next steps soon.”
Oh, really, Oksana? You will?
How about this, Oksana – how about the next steps are: we will not leave our condo because we don’t have to. You have rules and regulations afforded to you by the Residential Tenancies Act, as do we. We can both use those collective tools to our benefits, and in this case, we will remain in the premises and pay you $50.60 more per month, and you will continue to abide by our lease agreement, as well as the RTA.
BOOM!
Except, that, ugh….
Well, Jessica and Daniel got really, really nervous after this exchange, and they caved.
They agreed to raise the rent by $150 per month and sign a new one-year lease, neither of which they had to do.
They could have not only remained in the unit for $50.60 more per month, but also remained on a month-to-month arrangement. There is nothing that says they must sign a new lease.
But even in the case where a tenant knows her rights, she, like many people in this position, might get afraid. The result is that the landlord comes out further ahead than she should have.
The silver lining here is that, unlike in the first case, the tenant here got to remain in the condo.
But both situations show how landlords and property managers (I still can’t believe the first one, wow!) can game the system without fear, it seems, of repercussions.
If you’re a tenant, know your rights.
If you’re a landlord, I assure you, trying stuff like this is not worth the risk.
I really do believe that this is one of those areas in life where you catch more flies with honey.
Chris
at 10:53 am
“As COVID-19 spreads and oil prices plumb record lows, the dreaded “R” word — recession — is starting to resurface in Canada.
A rising number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. raises the risk of dwindling demand and major supply chain disruptions for Canadian businesses, some analysts say. At the same time, the oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, both of whom have pledged to flood the market with ramped-up supply, bodes ill for Canada’s oil-producing companies.
So is Canada about to hit a recession?
Right now, that’s “almost a coin toss,” said RBC chief economist Craig Wright.
Given the recent oil-price shock and how important the energy sector is for Canada, that risk seems to be rising nearly “by the day,” he added.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/6654625/canada-recession-risk-jobs/
Appraiser
at 8:15 am
Here’s your boy:
@John Pasalis · Mar 10
“COVID-19, oil prices crashing, stocks crashing but none of that matters to Toronto’s real estate market – sales are still up 40% yoy early in March.”
Chris
at 9:38 am
Surely you don’t somehow believe all of this is bullish for real estate? We’re almost guaranteed a recession at this point, Italy is under full quarantine, NBA (and likely soon NHL) has cancelled their season, travel between Europe and USA is halted, AirBnB hosts are hemorrhaging money, most of which has happened in the last two days (after John’s post).
But hey everyone! Interest rates are going down! Time to hit up some open houses!
Absolutely delusional.
Appraiser
at 2:54 pm
We had a technical recession in 2015.
Nobody remembers.
Yawn.
Real estate will plow right through, with or without recession, as always.
So behind the curve.
Sad.
Chris
at 3:01 pm
…Are you being sarcastic? I honestly can’t tell.
It’s unfathomable that you think today’s situation is akin to 2015. A pandemic and subsequent global recession is nothing at all like the oil price decline which led to the mild (and fairly regional) recession of 2015.
I get you’re all rah-rah-real estate all the time, but if you actually believe what you’re saying, you’re more deluded than I thought.
Hell, you’re even arguing against yourself, who only days ago said “…price increases are inevitable. Unless of course, there is a recession.”
Chris
at 10:59 am
“So It Has Officially Happened
As of this morning we have had our first call from a client telling us they are asking their real estate agent to get them out of a home purchase closing next week
They are “scared” of unemployment”
– Ron Butler, March 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/ronmortgageguy/status/1238103657503211527
Appraiser
at 11:14 am
Dow Jones down 19% from the peak as of this morning and on the verge of a bear market !
Chris
at 11:21 am
Yep, a potential pandemic-induced recession will do that!
Bal
at 11:32 am
Or may be after few weeks….everything will be hunky-dory…no? Back to normal
Chris
at 11:38 am
Sure, could be a quick V shaped recovery. Or maybe it will be a longer downturn.
Do you know how extensive the economic fallout from Covid-19 will be, and how long it will impact us? Because I sure don’t.
Bal
at 11:48 am
True no one knows….
Chris
at 11:57 am
Exactly. Anyone who claims that Covid-19 is “over-sensationalized”, will resolve quickly, or won’t have much of an impact is just fabricating things. Equally so, anyone who says this will lead to a long term recession, or will continue to spread unabated.
The reality is, not even the experts at the WHO, Heath Canada, etc. know how it will play out.
It has already caused some economic harm, through disruption of supply chains, quarantines in China and Italy, and decreased tourism and consumer spending. But where it goes from here is entirely unknowable.
Appraiser
at 8:25 am
The Dow did in fact closes in bear territory yesterday.
Meanwhile:
GTA real estate sales are up 40%, while new listings are only ahead 23% thus far for the month of March, year over year. A formula for higher prices still.
“Affordability”…is losing the race.
Appraiser
at 8:29 am
“On average, a bear market for the Dow lasts 206 trading days, while the average bear period for the S&P 500 is about 146 days, according to data from Dow Jones Market Data. The Dow is currently off 20.3% from its Feb. 12 record, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are 19% from their Feb. 19 peaks.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-dow-just-tumbled-into-a-bear-market-ending-the-longest-bull-market-run-in-historyheres-how-those-downturns-last-on-average-2020-03-11
Chris
at 9:43 am
Out of curiosity, how many days does the average real estate bear market last?
As an aside, you should be cautious out there, appraiser. Given your cv which you shared previously, I don’t think you’re a spring chicken. I know you thought this whole thing was over sensationalized, but mortality rate for older people is alarmingly high.
As obtuse as you are sometimes, I wouldn’t want you to catch Covid-19.
Jimbo
at 2:34 pm
Time to buy is now….. Could be a quick 20% gain within the year.
Problem is you can’t live in a stock so you can’t leverage to take advantage without the possibility for a bankruptcy.
I will probably start tracking the puts/options over the next 6 months to see how exactly the market is pricing a recovery. I’m not confident enough to buy anything like that on margin or gamble more than $7k to take advantage of any big upswings but it will be a great time to learn.
Crofty
at 3:15 pm
@Jimbo
Good luck with your gambling… er, I mean, your investing.
Kyle
at 1:13 pm
With all the over-regulation creating a housing crisis, it has basically become a chess game pitting Landlord’s against Tenants and vice versa, with neither side winning.
I’ve seen old surveys showing a Tenant-preference for purpose built apartments, partially because they can’t use the excuse that my relative wants to move in, but these days i think there might even be less security with purpose built, as many of these big REIT owned buildings are using other more devious means to encourage tenant turnover.
Chris
at 2:05 pm
As public health officials, companies and politicians struggle to centralize a response to the novel coronavirus there are signs the decentralized world of short-term rental accommodations has its own specific vulnerabilities.
A softening tourism market might be bad for investors who bet on higher revenues for housing units in the short-term market, even though if some of those units converted to long-term rentals the uptick in supply could have the effect of lessening the Toronto region’s housing affordability crisis.
“New listings are still outpacing any increase in rental demand so if we see a year over year decline in rents [last month they were flat], that would be quite bad for confidence from investors,” John Pasalis, CEO of President Realosophy Realty Inc., said.
“We have heard from investors who prefer to cash out after having a hard time renting their units,” he said, and while he thinks an uptick in defaults is unlikely, declining rental rates could slow demand for condo presales. “I believe [that] is highly possible if rental prices start trending down, and if we happen to hit a point were resale condo prices start to decline.”
“My bookings are drastically down for the first time ever and had my first cancellation the other day,” wrote one host under the name Joanne Azelis. “I’ve never been without bookings, NEVER!! It’s a massive loss of income.”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/article-short-term-rentals-pinched-by-coronavirus-fears/
Bal
at 2:46 pm
Chris….my understanding is that as long as interest rates remain low and population growth is there…GTA house market will remain strong…. The only thing the impact housing market is interest rates….so far I am not seeing much impact of norovirus in GTA….i might be wrong….but that is my thinking….i still see houses are flying over asking
Bal
at 2:47 pm
I am not a real estate agent or anything….lolll… Just regular 9 to 5 worker looking for the house to buy…lollol
Chris
at 3:05 pm
“Unless of course, there is a recession.” – Appraiser, March 9, 2020
Bal
at 3:53 pm
And recession means job loss…i think most jobs will be affected are in travel and tourism….so far everything seems fine at my work front….and hope stays this way…i work for supply chain and we do receive stuff from China….so far not much disturbance
Bal
at 4:03 pm
But again I might be only reviewing my small area without knowing what the world is going through
Steve
at 3:36 pm
It’s going to impact a lot more than travel and tourism as focus on social distancing via cancelling events and closing businesses increase to slow down the spread (and lets hope it’s successful).
Restaurant and retail are next in line but overall productivity is also going to take a hit even in industries where people can work from home. Hard to be 100% productive if you are working from home and now have the kids on your hands for an extended period.
Real money is being lost out there and that is what markets are reacting to.
Natasha
at 4:31 pm
I wonder if this is the same law for selling a home. Does anyone know? I know of a person that going through this.
Chris
at 4:36 pm
Can you clarify your question? I’m not sure I fully understand it.
The laws David is discussing apply to all rentals, whether home or condo.
Jimbo
at 7:08 pm
Very infuriating examples. Too bad they don’t have any recourse….
Charles
at 1:08 am
You might want to review those tenancy laws. The landlord can evict for sale if they are at the end of their lease. And given 60 days notice. If they are still on the lease they cannot be evicted. Please know your laws before spreading misinformation.
Jennifer
at 12:53 pm
no. ditto.
Karen Johnson
at 10:31 am
I really enjoyed this article. If everyone played fair – tenants and landlords – we wouldn’t need time consuming, expensive processes and laws that bounce between favouring one side or the other. (Essentially condoning the illegal fraudulent behaviours of one party until pressured to condone the other party’s illegal fraudulent behaviours and back and forth.) This creates friction between accommodation providers and accommodation seekers.
Chris
at 10:42 am
“Canada appears on the brink of recession as the economy takes a double hit from the coronavirus and tanking oil prices, ramping up pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to deliver a fiscal stimulus package.
Bank of Nova Scotia, the country’s third-largest lender, became the first major Canadian bank to forecast the country will fall into a mild recession this year unless the government moves ahead with a fiscal stimulus plan. Similar near-recession calls could follow as forecasts are revised down in the face of rapidly deteriorating conditions.
For Trudeau, it’s “likely that stimulus will end up needing to be far larger than what’s already been announced,” Royce Mendes, an economist at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, said by telephone Wednesday. His bank is also forecasting domestic growth will turn negative in back-to-back quarters this year, a situation economists refer to as a technical recession.
Scotiabank sees the country’s gross domestic product growth slowing to 0.3 per cent for the year, including two straight quarters of negative growth, in the absence of significant stimulus. Perrault recommends the government roll out a fiscal package equivalent to one per cent of GDP, or just over $20 billion, in order to prevent the Canadian economy from going into recession.
National Bank of Canada, the country’s sixth-largest lender, also revised its forecasts for 2020 growth down to 0.6 per cent on Wednesday. “Our expectation for a late-year economic recovery, which could extend into 2021, is predicated on rapid and significant policy responses, both from central banks and from governments,” National Bank’s economics team said in a note.
Bank of Montreal was the first of the six banks to revise their forecasts lower this week, with a call for full year GDP growth at 0.5 per cent. Goldman Sachs is predicting Canada’s economy is on the “verge of recession,” forecasting no growth in the first quarter of this year and a contraction in the second quarter.”
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/recession-calls-mount-in-canada-on-double-hit-from-virus-oil-1.1404281
Bal
at 10:52 am
It is getting scary….
Chris
at 2:56 pm
Trudeau in self-isolation, NHL/MLB/MLS suspended, odds of a USA recession now at 80%+, private mortgage lenders backing out (per Ron Butler), people panic buying toilet paper, Broadway shows cancelled for the next month.
Still wanna buy a house this Spring, Bal? Appraiser says all the ingredients are there for higher prices!
Bal
at 9:30 pm
????….well I will wait and watch…my husband is interested in buying…but I want to make sure that I don’t lose my job
Chris
at 9:48 pm
Yep, I think a lot of people are in that exact same boat.
If/when a recession rolls around because of all this, continuation of employment is probably going to be a lot more important to most people than buying a home.
Appraiser
at 2:44 pm
Oh no! Tom Hanks has coronavirus.
Dow Jones down more than 25% from the peak.
Ouch!!
Chris
at 2:51 pm
https://torontorealtyblog.com/blog/reader-mailbag-4/#comment-117022
This comment of yours has aged about as well as a jug of milk in the July sun!
Appraiser
at 4:30 pm
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 10 percent, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 both down 9 percent. It was the worst point drop ever for the Dow, and its worst performance since the market crash in 1987.
Trading was halted twice, triggering thresholds that paused market activity on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in premarket trading and immediately after the opening bell. Even an emergency injection of $500 billion from the Federal Reserve did little to calm the markets.
“It’s going to all bounce back and it’s going to bounce back very big,” Trump said Thursday, during a meeting with Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/trading-wall-street-temporarily-suspended-after-trump-s-crisis-response-n1156406
Chris
at 4:37 pm
“A pandemic-driven global recession is becoming more likely by the day as the flow of goods, services and people face ever-increasing restrictions and financial markets slump.
The virus “has disrupted the global economy and has quickly morphed into a dislocation in financial markets too,” Morgan Stanley economists led by Chetan Ahya said in a report to clients in which they warned of a “rising risk” of a full-blown global recession.
Dashed are the hopes from just a few weeks ago that the world economy would track a V-shaped trajectory — a sharp first-quarter slump in growth followed by a second-quarter rebound. Now, the biggest economic shock since the 2008 financial crisis is raising the risk of a worldwide recession, with the debate shifting to how long and deep the slump will be.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/world-economy-powering-down-daily-makes-recession-more-likely
But I’m sure that Toronto real estate will buck the trend of all other assets classes, and “plow right through”…right…guys?
Appraiser
at 8:16 pm
The resilience of the GTA real estate market will be evident once again.
Unstoppable.
Tired of being wrong yet?
Chris
at 8:29 pm
What happened to “unless there’s a recession”? Changed your mind already after only a few short days?
Guess we’ll see how “unstoppable” it really is! Maybe during a recession in which pretty much all asset classes are depreciating, Toronto real estate prices will keep chugging upwards. Or, maybe not.
Good luck to you, don’t forget to wash your hands!
Appraiser
at 8:41 pm
“Each year in Canada, it is estimated that influenza causes approximately:”
“12,200 hospitalizations
3,500 deaths ”
That’s almost 10 deaths every day from seasonal influenza. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/flu-influenza/health-professionals.html#a8
Canada has had 1 death from COVID-19 thus far.
Chris
at 8:59 pm
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-new-coronavirus-isn-t-like-the-flu-but-they-have-one-big-thing-in-common
Give up this narrative, appraiser…it’s a real bad look for you and also just plain wrong.
We all know it’s more serious than influenza. When was the last time full countries were quarantined for influenza? Schools canceled? Sports leagues suspended? Travel banned between Europe and the USA? A recession sparked?
Appraiser
at 9:00 pm
From link above. Every year, worldwide seasonal epidemics cause an estimated:
1 billion cases of influenza
250,000 to 500,000 deaths
3 to 5 million cases of severe illness
Coronavirus Cases thus far:
134,560
Deaths:
4,972
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?from=groupmessage&isappinstalled=0&nsukey=Yt0AGaqVKR89bjtpNMM8m9VlA/v5edttqDSdC5Nug+dPwIYQiztyw/a2Kv2KYkKHkILDmTXXff3FSpV4mlgXH14hRLHuhQc5lFPfYoV0TSX5mgeZbOmlY6yWN3iyB8lMuT2KAI5OC79105EP7I4rCKDQ4j3XbQ2nmO6OvqzHzytHjNYFnDmyuYhmgQ/9jAnotm+gHSXyGi6zVo32lBiX6g==
Chris
at 9:47 pm
“Calculations of the mortality rate for Covid-19 have ranged between 2% and 3.4% since the virus was identified in China in January, according to World Health Organization data. Those percentages are derived by dividing the number of confirmed deaths globally into the number of confirmed cases.
By contrast, the seasonal flu has a death rate of approximately 0.1%.”
Once again, how many travel bans are imposed due to influenza? How many suspended sports leagues? How many nationwide quarantines?
Give it up, appraiser. You’re not right, while the entire rest of the world is wrong. It’s getting pretty sad…
Pete
at 1:40 pm
Minor technicality…if the landlord lists a unit for sale & has a firm agreement from buyer with intent to move in, they don’t have to pay buyer 1 month rent. As per N12, one month rent is only due if landlord evicts for own or family move-in.
Jason H
at 1:51 pm
As both a Landlord and a Tenant I definitely know my rights in both areas – it’s astounding how many landlords try to circumvent the laws (tenants also do with non-payment etc).
It’s amazing to me how many tenants don’t know about their rights. I can’t tell you how many renters (and sometimes landlords) I’ve educated on this topic over the years.