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.
Her story with her in-laws gets a little sympathy, right up until she’s complaining that the tenant is doing all these things to her and she “didn’t do anything”.
You served him illegal rent increase notices and you tried to evict him! That’s not nothing! All the tenant has done is get the regulator in the loop, and the regulator has repeatedly said, “yeah, you can’t do that.” Flawed as they sometimes are, we have laws like these for a reason.
I’m also noticing the owners said they are bleeding cash. But they bought 7 units (in 4 buildings) for 295,000. Assuming 0 down and 5% apr that just north of 1700 a month. So this one renter paying 727 is nearly half of their mtg.
Even if we say expenses and upkeep adds 50% to their monthly outlay, their costs are covered at 4 units rented…
I’m not exactly anti landlord but this screams rent seeking crocodile tears.
If she’s “bleeding money” she can sell one of the seven units she owns.
“we’re bleeding money” so lets get my mother-in-law who is already in a long term care facility to move in and not pay a dime which will end up costing us MORE in the long run as she’ll need to be cared for.
But you own 7 other units, why not just sell one or two of those if you’re “bleeding money”.
I just wish people would be honest every now and again and simply say “We make a lot of money but we want to make more.”
I wasn’t aware anywhere in Canada allowed zero down for residential housing. CMHC usually requites at least 5%, and that’s for personal housing only. Which means the numbers would work out to even lower monthly payments.
They don’t really allow 0 down. But It is possible. I went with 0 down just to give the landlord some grace because realistically I was already sure they were misleading on the costs.