No restraining order yet

....but we did receive a call from a police officer wanting to know what R. did while at the job site.

Don't you just LOVE how the tenant can do one thing after another that is illegal and just plain WRONG - and yet it is the landlord that is constantly being told that the tenant has rights?

Ds and Mr. Ds are STEALING from us. They have illegally locked us out of our own property. And the police are complicit in all of it.

They are the ones that refuse to act to ensure that we are provided with a key.

They are the ones that kicked R. out of the basement unit for interfering with the ds' ~enjoyment~

And they are the ones that call us at 9:30 p.m. at night over stupid nonsense.

Thanks SO much for all your help, OPP.

As R. asked the cop on the phone -  are we just supposed to hand over the deed to the property, too?

RIDICULOUS.

Whatever

Too funny. The d.s. just called to threaten us because Ross stopped by Mr. d.s.' place of work to find out the company name.

Given that the name is clearly written on the side of the trucks and that they are working on a public hwy, I'm pretty sure that Ross is more than within his right to stop by and speak to the foreman about whatever he likes.

In any case, we now have the information we need about the company he works for...  which is, of course, important for later, once we have our order for more than $4k which they will owe us for rent and expenses by the time we have our hearing at the Landlord and Tenant Board in Ontario.

Can't garnishee wages if you don't know where they actually work, after all.

Silly dirt squirrel :).

Discouraging

While trying to use Google to find out who to complain to about the Sheriff's total lack of co-operation and insistance on adding thousands of dollars to the cost of this landlord and tenant nightmare, I came across a report from the Federation of Rental Housing Providers in Ontario.

Everything we are experiencing and going on about is a well known problem and has been documented by the FRPO. The Feb. 2011 report, Justice Denied: Ontario's Broken Rent Dispute Process includes a whole section on the Ontario Sheriff's offices and their monopoly on the eviction process. It recommends that private baliffs be allowed to handle evictions as they are in other provinces.

The whole thing is ridiculous!

And people wonder why there is so little affordable housing in Ontario.

Off to write really bitchy letters to Ontario MPPs - and then perhaps a newspaper article or two.

Snotty bitches

Seriously ...I don't have enough snotty bitches to deal with, with the thief who is stealing from Ontario taxpayers and from us, and inconveniencing and harassing a whole lot of other people - now I also have to deal with snotty bitch tone from the Sheriff's office receptionist?

I don't fricken think so!

Did find out that the office is actually only closed on the dates one might expect, i.e. Dec. 25th & 26th, and Jan. 1 .... the SB says it's a ~resource issue~ that prevents them from bothering to enforce the order. .... from Dec 17 until sometime in Jan, they have insufficient resources to do their jobs. If that is the case, I think they should close the office down - why are taxpayers paying to keep it open at all? No work, no pay... isn't that how it works? Except for landlords ...we still have the work, and the bills... but the tenants don't have to pay, or get out when they've given notice, or.... 

Me, I think it's a lazy fucking waste of taxpayers' money we don't want to do our fucking jobs issue.

Funny, I've been reading through the Courts of Justice Act, RSO 1990, c C.43 - exciting reading that - and nowhere do I see anything that they get to be paid through December without actually having to do any work.

This whole thing is so much crap - the entire system does nothing but support the so-called-tenant while soaking us for more money because we were stupid enough to rent to a lying cheating thief. Bad enough if the so called services we are forced to pay for actually were provided in a timely manner....  which, I must admit, the Landlord and Tenant Board actually did .... but what good is it if the next (and more than twice as expensive, btw) part of the system can't be bothered to do their job.

Not impressed that the Ontario Ombudsman's office "can't" call the Sheriff on our behalf - no oversight there... they are Provincial ... so who the hell DOES have oversight? MPPs office thought it would be the Ombudsman but no such luck.

Am I having fun yet?   Not really. Merry Fucking ho ho.

Tenant Tip #1

Here's a tip for tenants - especially tenants-from-hell.

If you gave notice and then refused to leave, pay rent, OR stop harassing your landlords and destroying the repairs YOU DEMANDED THEY MAKE...

when you see them in passing, do NOT bother to nod courteously... it will most assuredly NOT help anything... and in fact, it might infuriate the landlord (you know, those people you are stealing from) and make them want to go pound your face in SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO badly.

unFREAKINGbelievable!!!

Just talked to the sheriff's office....  we can file the paperwork with them on the 17th as per our order ....charge us $401.40, and then NOT DO FUCK ALL.

They ~should~ be able to let us know when they might get round to actually evicting her.... when it suits them.... "AFTER THE NEW YEAR SOMETIME"

This system is SO NOT REASONABLE.

If we can't get new tenants in there in January either, we lose another $1200..... !!!  $2900 plus hundreds of dollars in damages that we will never see is not enough... now lets add another $1601.40 on top of that.

Merry fucking ho ho to me.

This is unfreaking believable.

Next call will be to a realtor.

Breathing

Things are a bit less stressful here now that we know that at least the ex parte order is on it's way.

There is, of course, still a process through which she could fight it and we would still end up at a hearing... but it is rather more complicated that someone that can't change a light bulb, turn a timer knob, or push a tap the other way (in a full YEAR!) might reasonably be expected to manage.

Would rather she put her energy toward finding another place (although honestly, I pity whoever gets stuck with her.) Pretty sure it won't be any where here in the Harbour though... small town news does have a way of making it's way 'round.

What really irks me about people & situations like this is that  they cause so much harm to people who are in legitimate need of a break. It is far too easy to say that's it...we will never rent to anyone on any kind of assistance again. Totally understandable, especially when this is far from the only tenant-from-hell-on-assistance we (and many many other landlords as well) have dealt with. It becomes easy to stigmatize all prospective tenants on assistance the same way...

...which means that even those people who do truly need assistance, and will appreciate being given a break and a safe, reasonably priced place to live, and who might actually be able to find there way out of the system with a bit of help wind up being punished for the behaviours of these scam artists.

It is not fair ...but what can I do?

I was a single mom on welfare once upon a time. It wasn't called OW then... there was general welfare or mother's allowance .... and it wasn't for very long. But it was not fun and I was relieved to be off it and get back to working. Still ran into plenty of housing issues along the way though - people not wanting to rent to single mothers...even single moms with jobs.... 

I keep trying to give others a chance... advocate for them with hubby when he is resistant and all that fun stuff...

and we keep getting burned.

Sure does make it hard to keep trying.