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.
Where I live, houses that people can afford to buy are purchased by these entrepreneur grindset wannabe amateur landlords and then rented out at a higher price than the mortgage to the same people who would have bought the property otherwise (which must always be the case when you think about it, otherwise there’s no profit). I understand not ALL landlords are this type of scum, but she is a landlord and she is this type of scum. Hence the epithet.
Also, consider being a bit more cautious about who you tell to “check their privilege”, as I’m pretty clearly defending people with less money against people with more of it. For all you know, I’m a renter living below the poverty line. My opinion, exactly as I’ve expressed it, is shared by many people in that situation. Even if your argument was 100% correct in all situations, it’s obvious that my heart was in the place of defending lesser privilege, even if I really was misunderstanding the economic implications of landlords not existing.
Yeah? That happens everywhere. Did I not mention housing should not be used as a commodity? I forget. You threw renters under the bus in your comment I replied to, so I doubt you are a renter just eeking by? I calls em as I sees em. My heart was also in the right place.
You got me! I don’t rent now, but I did rent on a sub-poverty income for about two years, and during that time I felt the same way as I do now. So you would have had the same exchange with past, renter-me, and then what? What difference would that have made to either of our arguments? It is a pointless avenue for you to pursue, since as I already pointed out and you conveniently did not refute, many renters share my view exactly as written.
I don’t believe I threw renters under the bus, but I’m open to having my understanding corrected if you could elaborate on how I did so.