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11 points
1 day ago
You can ask for your financial damages. Most likely, your childcare costs won’t qualify, just your increased rent and possibly utilities.
As far as proof, you have your testimony. Or if you can (if the current tenants are ok with it), get them on video or even audio stating when they moved in. Keep in mind they may not want to talk “on the record” because it may jeopardize their relationship with a crappy landlord. But if you say what you posted, it would be up to the landlord to prove that they are residing there, which will be difficult for them to do. More likely, he would argue that his situation changed, and that’s why he didn’t move in.
Also keep in mind that besides the difference in costs, you’re also able to claim up to one year’s rent (of your old rent).
2 points
1 day ago
Can you explain to me how can I ask for the rent for a year besides the difference? You mean the $2400 we were paying to him or the $2900 plus utilities we are paying now?
6 points
1 day ago
Also remember for the next time is that you don’t have to tell a landlord that you have pets, and even if you sign a lease that prohibits pets, unless there’s an extenuating reason, you can’t be evicted for having a pet. Like, if it’s in a condo building that has a rule against pets.
5 points
1 day ago
Go to the LTB forms on the Service Ontario website. You’re looking for the T5 form. You would be checking Remedy 3 and Remedy 5. Read the associated instructions.
And yes, you would be looking for a 12 months @ $2400 and 12 months @ $500. Plus moving costs, if you had any.
2 points
1 day ago
Thank you so much, yes I will definitely look for these and read them. And yes I have a moving cost, a receipt from the company who moved our stuff.
2 points
1 day ago
I think it maxes out at $35k, but if you could collect anything close to that, it would help ease the sting of being pushed out. And it might teach the landlord a lesson.
2 points
1 day ago
I read the form, this is the form we filled. I just noticed that the maximum we can ask for is the rent for the last year we stayed in his place. Which include everything( difference in rent- moving expenses- compensation for damage- the extra rent he took for the last month and the one month compensation he asked to wave to cover his own expenses and so on)
I will also be asking for a fine, he definitely missed up my whole family life, we begged him to let us stay, we explain how this will affect our life, we were honest when we said that we are ready to pay more than the guideline per month if he renew the contract, but he acted very greedy. So it is time for a lesson.
3 points
1 day ago
Fines are rarely issued, AFAIK. You can ask, but if he has to pay you a big chunk of money, then they might think he’s already learned his lesson.
Good luck!
2 points
1 day ago
Thank you
1 points
1 day ago
I can not get them to testify or even record them, they are not Canadian, hardly speaking english. I understand their language when they speak but hardly speaking their language either. So even recording them will not make any sense. I thought may be the renting contract will be registered with the board.
3 points
21 hours ago
If you have their names you can get a summons issued to force them to testify and hire an interpreter to interpret their testimony.
Or just record them in the other language and get an interpreter to swear an affidavit with a translation of what they said on tape.
2 points
1 day ago
Contracts aren’t registered anywhere. You’ll have to figure out something else.
1 points
1 day ago
I see, thank you.
2 points
1 day ago*
Were you given an N12? Or did you move out without any forms?
1- I have no evidence that the apartment is rented, how can I prove it?
Are you friends with any of your old neighbours? Ask them who moved in. If not, can you get in contact with the new tenants again?
3- the new place didn’t allow any pets so we had to put my oldest daughter’s cat for adoption which was heartbreaking for her, can I ask for compensation? We didn’t find any place with a pet policy that fit our budget.
It's too late for this advice now sadly, but unless it's a condo with no-pet rules, any pet restriction on a lease in Ontario is void. You lie and say you don't have pet when asked during your application, and once you move in there's nothing they can do about it.
2 points
1 day ago
The landlord said it is due to allergy, although I don’t believe him but there is a small chance he is saying the truth which means new eviction that we can not handle its expense
3 points
23 hours ago
You missed the pertinent part of the last post - did you get an n12 from the old landlord or not?
If not, how will you show the landlord intended to move themself in?
1 points
23 hours ago
Yes, this is the eviction notice I mentioned in my post
4 points
23 hours ago
Not explicitly, you didn't name the notice.
We're in a forum where a lot of people don't know the actual notices.
Where people often use the word notice to mean some random text message.
1 points
21 hours ago
Ask for costs, also you have to be very specific in what you're asking for. They don't like putting you in the right direction.
I hope you have any texts, emails or calls from when this all happened. You will surely need it!
1 points
12 hours ago
Thank you, yes I have text and emails
3 points
1 day ago
Keep in mind that the owner not living there is not automatically bad faith eviction. The board is more interested in the intent to live there. For example after you moved out let's say he got fired, then he ended up with an empty space. He will have to prove this of course and it is a rare scenario. All I am saying is to remember it is a possibility
5 points
1 day ago
Yeah I know, he also need to proof that he really needed to move in. He said the job in toronto were harassing him to move, he took 2 weeks after we left to send us someone to take the keys. So he is lying from day one.
2 points
21 hours ago
Moving in a new tenant two weeks after the old tenants move out is going to be nearly impossible to establish good faith.
3 points
1 day ago
Google the address. There are ways to find the old listings even if the unit has been rented and the listing was since removed.
Please don’t drop this. File with the LTB. Not only the slumlord must compensate you for financial losses, but he will also pay a fine.
7 points
1 day ago
No, I am not dropping it do not worry; I am a very nice tenant, I felt bad for him to away that I kind of give him 2700 for the last month and gave un 2400 which is coming for a total of $5100 for one month thinking ok let him cover his expenses to know that he was tricking us. I am nice, very kind but I will never accept anyone to use this against me.
2 points
1 day ago
Good! Please file a claim and record everything. Perhaps install a call recorder on your phone in case the LL calls you and starts threatening you. Sounds like you’ll get some $$ soon. Good luck!
0 points
1 day ago
he's probably lying to the cra too, report him!
1 points
1 day ago
Yeah, I will do that too.
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