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.
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.