Barrie Real Estate Investors We Need A Voice To Change This

BARRIE, Ontario - April 26, 2014 - PRLog -- Landlords across the country are calling for a bad tenant registry and changes in legislation to protect them against rogue renters

More renters are taking advantage of legal loopholes and tenant-friendly municipalities, and leaving landlords with unpaid bills and lost revenue.

A B.C. couple made national headlines this week for failing to pay for rent for almost two years, and cheating six landlords out of rent.

Landlords in the province are calling on the Residential Tenancy Branch to keep a record of all bad tenants and to provide this information to potential landlords, but they are arguing that privacy laws make this registry an impossible task. I went through an experience a few years ago at a tribunal here in Barrie. I hired a paralegal to represent myself on a property that I owned.  These renters were evicted from another home a short distance away, my paralegal communicated to me. I’m going to get to the point now, the day of the tribunal they don’t show up but their Mother is there to represent them.  She told the court that her daughter and son in law were at the hospital all night with one of there children, and she was looking for a few more weeks to deal with things. At that point my Paralegal jumps out of her chair and says that she just had them evicted from a property a few weeks ago and this is a stall tactic. The judge totally dismisses what she was communicating and gives these tenants another 3 weeks. At this point they were all ready 3 months in arrears.  So you can clearly see that this act is in favour of the tenants and always has been. It needs to be changed!!! These renters did get evicted and went on to another rental home and repeated the process.

Mark Turcotte

http://www.newbarrierealestatelistings.com

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