New Site

So ... since I am no longer welcome at the Ontario Landlord's Association forums - nice, eh...take my $99 and kick me out when I did not break a single one of their posted rules -- and then refuse so much as to respond to my emails... clearly won't be recommending them to anyone any more.

ANYWAY... because of that, I got motivated to set up my own website - complete with a forum... am also blogging there... not sure what, if anything I'll do with this blog, but please do drop by my new home at http://onlandlording.org .... and would love to have you stop by and chat at the ONlandlording forum, also.... can even use private messaging, profiles, search, and so on.... no control freaks :)  Hope to see you there.

Nice job cleaning up the yard

Penguins

No doubt this mess is far from over - but did get a bit of penguin worthy news today....

The ex parte order for eviction has been issued and will be in a mailbox by "the end of today."

Another fun day

Another fun visit to the house in yet another attempt to respond to the squatter's maintenance demands. Notice was given on Monday that we would be there today at 11.

We showed up with the deputy fire chief - he was there at our request, as we wanted to address her concern about the "fire hazard" .... the snippet of her note is actually very funny if y'ask me... what she neglects to mention is that they demanded the deck be removed and did most of the work; the patio door was fixed when they moved in - with a brand spanking new handle, even - and THEY broke it; and the 2 inside doors she "needs" for the bedrooms she has no right to be using anyway are CLOSET doors, 1 of them for a closet which has actually never had a door because it is an odd configuration.

Is there something in the Landlord and Tenant's Act that says bedroom closets must have doors?

Anyway ... her whole list is complete & utter nonsense, but I've covered that already, so....

We do, however, need to address the issues around the patio door - they've knocked it off its track so there is a gap to the outside and that will not do under Tay Township property standards.

Our plan WAS to reseat the doors and then seal them up, but since the squatter not only refused to leave as per the notice, she brought in her very mouthy and aggressive sister, we were unable to have R. enter the unit to make any repairs at all... another conversation caught on video ...boring though, just so you know.

So we wound up once again having to fix it only from the outside... did the best we could without access to the interior, and, of course, without spending copious amounts of money, since we don't actually have copious amounts of money and are, in fact, now in the hole by $2900 and counting.

Won't be at all surprised if J. removes it again.... but police officer, bylaw officer and fire chief all now have documented that we have addressed her concerns for her safety.

Anyway .... once we got back home, was sitting here trying to do some other work and the thought just crossed my mind....what if the fax didn't actually go through? 

I did get (and keep) the confirmation slip ... but still..... shit happens .....and honestly, in my life, shit happens a LOT.... what a NIGHTMARE that would be ... if we were sitting here waiting out the week to ten days it supposedly takes to get an ex parte order or, God forbid, a hearing date....

Anyway ... since I was having an anxiety attack, I called the Board - CS person told me that there was nothing showing yet (OMG!?!?!) ... but not to worry ...that just means it hasn't been processed yet... can take up to 72 hours from time it's received, blah blah blah....

not to worry? uh yeah.... no....    So she is going to email the office I faxed it to (Barrie area is covered by the Mississauga office) and ask someone to call and let me know either way. So NOW I am sitting here waiting to hear back from them.... fully aware it won't likely be as quick as I would like it to be though.

What a freaking NIGHTMARE!

Anyone wanna buy a house?

Rescinding Notice

Gotta love it.

Our current tenant-from-hell received an N5 re: the mess in the yard on 10-Oct. She did not clean it up, so we were well within our right to file for an eviction - but I didn't BECAUSE she gave notice.

Less than 60 days notice (which is required both by law, and in our rental agreement) and even less than 30 days (which is what we typically actually expect & get) ... but we happily accepted it. She was supposed to be out by 30-Nov. YAY!!

More fool me.

Here it is December 1 and guess what? *sigh*

It has been SUCH a fun week. Or not.

Last Tuesday, I stopped by to tell CS that I would like to show the apartment at 2 p.m. on Thursday. Well in excess of the required 24 hours notice.

She indicated that she didn't have any place to go and "might" want to extend her tenancy. Now, according to the Landlord and Tenant Act I could have just said no. And really, I did want to just say no - for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which is shown here:

1-Dec-2012. After having received not one but 2 N5 notices.

But it is December, and she does have small kids, so even though she is a scam artist, thief and royal pain in my butt, I did speak with her about what we would require to allow her to rescind her notice.

Since she used her last month's rent deposit for November, she would need to both pay December's rent and repay the last month's rent deposit. She would also need to work out a plan to repay additional amounts owing, which include $250 withheld for parts for repairs they insisted they wanted to make, and another $250 for the clean  up of the yard and dump fees. That is, btw, more than reasonable and charges her nothing for my husband's labour - the dump fees and garbage tags totalled $175; the remainder was paid to the helper who provided both labour and his truck.

And because I already have a new potential tenant, I very clearly stated, repeatedly, that she would need to let me know what she and her partner (who is not on the lease, and more than likely, also not on record with OW as living there) decided as I needed to let that tenant know what was going on.

Neither confirmation, nor rent of any sort, was forthcoming on Wednesday, so I proceeded to confirm my appointment with the new tenant. On Thursday morning, just to be on the safe side, I asked my husband to stop by and remind her that we were coming, which he did.

When hubby, I & the new tenant arrived, CS' sister - a particularly ~lovely~ young woman - not only denied us access, she also informed us that CS would not be moving, and that if we did attempt to enter the unit, she would "sic" the rottweiler (brought in to visit especially for the purpose; it doesn't normally live there) on us.

We called the police, who eventually arrived and refused to force the issue because - stupid me - I gave CS the notice and didn't think to snap a picture of her accepting it, I guess - won't make that mistake again.  We served yet another 24 notice for access on Friday, at which time, with police again in attendance, I served CS with another N5 re: the condition of the yard, and received from her a list of items she wants repaired (SO worth another post all of its own!) and finally a key to the front door (which we have been asking for for more than a month).

Must. Love. Landlording.