This article is intended to be of help to family members of tenants, who suffer from various mental health problems such as schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, and varying other disorders that may manifest behaviours that are considered antisocial and inconsistent with living in rental accommodation.
The issue that I am seeking to explore is best described in the context of an example. Let us imagine a situation of a tenant suffering from a mental health condition. That tenant is capable of independent living and for the most part is compliant with medication and treatment. When the tenant is on medication and perhaps receiving support in the community they are able to live in their apartment without incident. However, this same tenant, from time to time stops taking medication, or at other times of the year the medication seems to be less effective or somehow the mental health condition is more pronounced. Whatever the reason, in these times the tenant will do (one or all of the following): mutter to themselves in public spaces raising safety concerns for other tenants; behave oddly in elevators with other tenants present, shout intermittently for no apparent reason in common areas and in the rental unit thereby disturbing other tenants, throwing their own property out of their unit, re-organizing their unit very loudly, making repeated telephone calls to management raising complaints that are unfounded, filling up the voice-mail of the superintendent with rants--often religious in nature; complaining of being wronged in some way--illegally, contrary to the Residential Tenancies Act, harassment, etc., fixating on a tenant and interfering with that person in the building (notes, telephone calls, constantly knocking at the door). Sometimes the behaviours are self destructive and disturbing for other tenants to watch or hear and may included calling police, writing to the landlord extensively, posting notices in the building etc..
The tenant, as described, is understood to be acting or behaving in the manner that they are because of a mental health problem. When the condition is under control, the complained of behaviours stop. However, when the condition is not controlled you get the kinds of behaviours described--which in varying degrees range from being an annoyance to other tenants to becoming issues of impaired safety or even illegal conduct.
In circumstances where the conduct complained of substantially interferes with the reasonable enjoyment of the premises, impairs safety, or is an illegal act, the Landlord is in a position to serve a Notice of Termination in Form N5, N6, or N7 respectively. These Notices of Termination would ultimately lead to a hearing which would normally lead to an eviction Order based on the conduct described.
I say "normally" because the behaviour complained of is not acceptable behaviour in a rental complex and the Residential Tenancies Act (Ontario) allows a landlord to terminate a tenancy where this kind of conduct takes place. However, in situations where this kind of behaviour exists because of a mental health condition it is possible to avoid eviction and maintain the tenancy on the basis of Human Rights law, specifically the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC).
I'm going to write about the OHRC applying to the landlord and tenant law in broad general terms in the hope that the interaction between the two becomes clear.
As a general statement it is true to say that tenants or a landlord of a rental complex do not need to suffer continued interference with their reasonable enjoyment of the premises, illegal acts, or impaired safety regardless of whether the perpetrator of the act is disabled. Being disabled---suffering as our example sets out---from a mental health condition, is not a licence to annoy, impair safety, or commit crime. Sometimes landlords and other tenants react to the applicaiton of human rights law as requiring such tolerance. In fact, when tempers cool, it is clear enough that Human Rights law does not impose such a burden.
What a person's disability may require under the Residential Tenancies Act, is an accommodation or an adjustment of how things are done, to assist that person in not committing the behaviour complained of. What this means is that the tenant's disability requires an understanding on the part of landlords and tenants that some of the conduct that bothers them is caused by a condition beyond the tenant's control. In order for the disabled tenant to enjoy the benefits of continuing to live in the apartment building other tenants and/or the landlord may be asked to assist or accommodate the disabled tenant so that the complained of behaviours can be controlled, minimized, or stopped.
So what exactly does that mean? At the landlord and tenant board you may very well hear an adjudicator refer to a "duty to accommodate". What that means is that a landlord or other tenants have an obligation under the law to help a disabled person ( to the point of undue hardship) overcome the things that are causing that person to behave in the way that allows the landlord to serve the Notice of Termination. It can be said that the Notice of Termination imposes a harsh consequence for certain types of behaviour---and perhaps appropriately so where the tenant who committs that behaviour does so voluntarily. However, where the behaviour is involuntary (because of disability), the availability of serving a Notice of Termination against that disabled tenant may be too readily available without first requiring an investigation into alternative courses of action.
Lets look at the example where a tenant's medication is being adjusted. In that period of time while the medication adjustments are happening the tenant becomes verbally aggressive and confrontational towards other tenants and landlord staff. The verbal aggression and confrontation is real, scary, and disturbing to other tenants and the landlord. However, unlike a situation where the behaviour is intentional, the tenant in this example can provide medical reports and explanation from a treating phsyician explaining what is happening, why it is likely happening, and most importantly that the behaviour is temporary. The physician provides an opinion that the tenant poses no real physical threat. In light of this information, the tenant's spouse, family member, asks the landlord and other tenants for understanding, asks for some patience, and advises that all should be well within a month or two. Is this an unreasonable outcome? What if the tenant's spouse says to anyone with a concern or problem to please call her/him immediately if anything is happening so that he/she can take care of it?
The duty to accommodate forces landlords, tenants, and the Landlord and Tenant Board to investigate how and why certain things are happening. If these things are happening because of something falling under the Human Rights Code then there is a positive obligation to look for alternatives to the traditional penalty of eviction and termination of a tenancy. In other words, there is a duty to accommodate the tenant who is behaving in a certain way because of a disability.
The "duty to accommodate" is something that the HRCode imposes on all landlords. Some landlords greatly resist this obligation citing their view that they are not social workers and that they have no obligation to look after the tenants beyond collecting rent and maintaining the units as per the lease and the RTA. The reality is that this view is simply wrong and it is inconsistent with the actual law.
The duty to accommodate (to the point of undue hardship) can take many forms. Sometimes it involves providing grab bars for physical infirmities or even extra sound proofing to deal with extra noises. Sometimes wood floors need to be carpeted, sometimes tenants need to be moved to higher or even lower floors. Sometimes the tenant has difficulty going outside and can't pay rent at an office across town and hence the landlord has to go and pick it up or accept it late. The point of accommodating a person with a disability is to seek out a way to help the tenant maintain their tenancy by dealing with the conduct that arises from the disability that could lead to termination of the tenancy.
What an accommodation looks like depends entirely on the circumstances of the disabled tenant and what is within the power of a landlord to provide. The obligation is not without limits but at the same time relucatance based on artificial limits will not absolve a landlord from providing assistance to the disabled tenant.
How do you require accommodation of a disability from a landlord? The simple answer is that you ask for it, and preferably in writing. If a tenant suffering from some kind of disability needs accommodation they should be forthright with the landlord and ask for that assistance. Whether the landlord provides the requested accommodation is not a matter of "being nice". It is a matter of law and legal obligation much in the same way as is the duty to maintain and repair the rental unit. Presuming that the request for accommodation is proper and demonstrably required, the landlord's only way of avoiding the obligation to provide it is by demonstrating that the request is too big, too expensive, and beyond what the landlord could reasonably be expected to do (i.e. to the point of undue hardship). Ultimately, it is the Landlord and Tenant Board that will decide whether the landlord's refusal to provide the requested accommodation is reasonable or not.
What if a tenant has substantially interfered with the reasonable enjoyment of the premises by other tenants and the landlord has filed a Notice of Termination and applied to the Landlord and Tenant Board for eviction. What does the tenant do then?
The Notice of Termination will contain statements as to the alleged conduct that justifies (from the landlord's perspective) the termination of the tenancy. The tenant--or the tenant's family or lawyer---will consider the nature of the allegations and reach a conclusion that the complained of behaviour arises from a mental health condition, a disability, or something covered under the Human Rights Code. The tenant, the family member, lawyer, or social worker, will recognize that the issue complained of did in fact happen or that some version of what is complained of did happen. They will recognize that whatever did happen, should not have happened, and that it will be necessary to try to prevent a re-occurence of the event.
It is in the prevention of a re-occurence that the tenant or his family member, social worker, lawyer, or friend, may discover that the method of preventing a further re-occurrence of the behaviour requires some action, some support, or the doing or not doing of something by the landlord or other tenants in the building. The landlord will be asked to do these things as part of the "duty to accommodate" the tenant. The tenant's lawyer will assert the position that if the tenant is accommodated in this way that the chance of a re-occurence is greatly reduced and perhaps even eliminated. Therefore, the tenant's lawyer will ask the Board to deny a termination of the tenancy and eviction notwithstanding that what the landlord alleges happened--did indeed happen, and that under other circumstances a termination of the tenancy would have followed.
The Landlord and Tenant Board will very carefully consider such proposals and in the appropriate cases grant the tenant the relief requested. It is important to note that the duty to accommodate and the application of HRL to specific cases is not something that is simply or easily done. Some parties subject to eviction hearings seem to think that simply having a disability is somehow an excuse for any kind of anti-social behaviour and that the Human Rights Code automaticaly prevents eviction. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Adjudicators will require disabled persons to make the link between the complained of behaviours and the disability. Just because a person suffers from a disability does not mean that their behaviour is involuntary or the result of that disability. When a disabled person makes voluntary choices to behave in a way that would result in the eviction of a non-disabled person they should not be surprised if the same thing happens to them.
The foregoing is also a warning to those tenants, and the family members of those tenants, who are facing eviction proceedings because of conduct arising from a disability. It is not enough to simply show up and claim that the complained of behaviour arises from a disability. The Board will require evidence, supporting documentation, medical reports, expert evidence, testimony from support workers, family members, and the like to clearly demonstrate and prove that the circumstances arise from a disability. Without such evidence you could expect the Board to be highly skeptical of any claim no matter how "obvious" it seems to the tenant or the family of that tenant.
Presuming a situation where the Board accepts that the complained of behaviours are as a result of a disability, and that the plan of action to prevent reoccurrence is reasonable, the Board will likely refuse to terminate the tenancy on the condition that the plan of action be implemented and that the complained of behaviour ceases or substantially changes. The Order will normally provide that if the condition is not met--that the Landlord may apply to the Board under section 78 of the RTA to terminate the tenancy. The Order will, also recognize the landlord's duty to accommodate, and any accommodation that the tenant has requested and which the Board has found reasonable for the landlord to provide.
In many cases involving mental health issues a single hearing can not permanently solve the problems suffered or caused by a disabled person. One would hope that the landlord would proceed with a greater understanding before returning to the Board. However, if the landlord still does not respond reasonably, and instead proceeds to obtain an eviction Order under section 78, the tenant may need to set aside that eviction Order on motion and again establish that the "new" objectionable conduct does not "substantially" interfere with reasonable enjoyment or that the behaviour should not be the basis for an eviction as it is within the bounds of what the landlord and other tenants could reasonably be expected to tolerate under the circumstances.
As I re-read this article I'm hoping that I have helped you understand the inter-play between Human Rights laws and the Ontario Residential Tenancies Act. There are many sub-issues and lots of nuance that I did not even come close to exploring in this article. If you are interested in reading more about this topic you may wish to consider reviewing some the Board case law on point for examples of how the HRC is applied in specific circumstances.
Michael K. E. Thiele
Quinn Thiele Mineault Grodzki LLP
Ottawa, Ontario
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I am a tenant living above a tenant with mental health issues. For the past 6 months I have had to put up with loud noises at night and people coming into my place have been harassed at the door. But in the past month she has been banging on wall and yelling all night long, I have gone into work over 10 times with no sleep. The landlord wont do anything and neither will the cops. As a tenant what are my rights? Can I refuse to pay rent?
ReplyDeleteHi Denis: The thing to do is to document the problems that you have (who, what, where, why, when, how) and send emails to your landlord complaining and asking him/her/it to take action. When nothing happens fill out an application to the Landlord and Tenant Board in Form T2--you can ask for a rent abatement, etc..
DeleteYour desired approach--refusing to pay rent--is not an "officially sanctioned" method of proceeding under the RTA. Some adjudicators get little testy about this self help remedy. There is some interesting case law about when a tenant is entitled to withhold rent but that's an academic debate. in my experience withholding the rent is a problem for many tenants because they end up spending the money and ultimately they are at risk of eviction when the Board orders them to pay it. However, if you have the self control to save it or the income to easily pay it then withholding the rent can get a lot of attention quite quickly. The landlord will likely become obsessed about your non-payment, serve you with an N4 (Notice of Termination for Non-Payment of Rent) and when you still don't pay file an L1 Application to the Board to Terminate and Evict you for Non-Payment of Rent which will add an additional $170 to your bill (application fee to the Board). While the landlord is doing this you should write repeatedly and clearly to him/her/it that you are not paying rent while they refuse to deal with the disturbing tenant. Provide the same details and information again, and again, and again to the Landlord. When your non-payment of rent case gets to hearing you are permitted to argue for a rent abatement or any other kind of remedy because of the situation with your neighbour (just like the T2 application I suggested above you file) except you do not have to file an application to argue the issues. You do need to have solid evidence though to prove your case. If your case is well founded, the Board will grant you a remedy of some sort and also grant the landlord a remedy for the non-payment of rent (presumably a reduced amount of rent owing due to your win). Regardless of how it shakes out, you will always have the opportunity to pay the rent owing plus the $170 and maintain your tenancy. Termination and eviction can be avoided by paying--though for many people in your position it will feel like you're playing with fire. Also, there are enough adjudicators who will take the opportunity to chastise you for this self help remedy.
Why withhold rent then? Because it gets attention from the landlord and if you say very loudly and clearly why you are doing it and that you will defend the application on the basis of non-action to your complaints and that you will seek a significant rent abatement, fine, order that the landlord address your concerns, then perhaps the landlord will think twice about simply proceeding against you for non-payment of rent. In short, it brings all of the issues to a head. That being said, withholding rent is frowned upon.
Best of luck
Michael K. E Thiele
I have a house with two units (main floor and basement). The main floor is rented to a single mother with three young children. We are seeking a tenant for the basement, and someone with schizophrenia has applied. I have had personal experiences with someone with schizophrenia who went off their meds and put my children in danger, so I am very nervous about renting to this individual who has applied. Am I obligated to rent to him in spite of my concerns for the safety of the family upstairs?
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DeletePlease review this section from the Ontario Human Rights Code:
(2) Every person who occupies accommodation has a right to freedom from harassment by the landlord or agent of the landlord or by an occupant of the same building because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability or the receipt of public assistance. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, s. 2 (2); 1999, c. 6, s. 28 (3); 2001, c. 32, s. 27 (1); 2005, c. 5, s. 32 (3); 2012, c. 7, s. 2 (2).
Once you have reviewed this section, I think you will see that what you are thinking about amounts to a direct violation of the Ontario Human Rights Code.
That being said, take a look at this link http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/policy-preventing-discrimination-based-mental-health-disabilities-and-addictions-summary-fact-sheet . It is from the Ontario Human Rights Commission website. There are a number of resources on the site that help explain your obligation as a landlord in making rental decisions. Simply rejecting a person because they have schizophrenia is not ever going to be acceptable.
Please do take a look at the Human Rights Commission materials. They provide a nuanced view of the various circumstances surrounding a landlord's obligation in the rental process.
Michael K. E. Thiele
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ReplyDeleteHi. My roommate has decided to move out at the end of the month and just told us today, she also informed us she has found someone to take over her lease and has already got the paperwork. Can she force this person in our home without our consent? And can she leave still leave without giving us 60 days notice?
ReplyDeleteHI: Unfortunately the question you are asking has a few different answers with a lot of "it depends". The most important factor is whether you have a single tenancy with the landlord or whether there are multiple tenancies within the one rental unit. It is possible for both to exist. If there are multiple tenancies within the rental unit then it is possible for your roommate to replace herself in the unit by subletting or assigning. If there is only one tenancy then this is not really possible.
DeleteThe issue becomes, if there is a single tenancy, whether your roommate can terminate the entire tenancy (of all of you). Given that she wants to move, and presuming a single tenancy, how can she deal with her legal obligation in relation to the lease. What she is doing is very odd as one would expect consultation and agreement amongst the co-tenants. However, it "works" if everyone is satisfied in proceeding this way.
With respect to notice from your roommate. Unless you have a roommate agreement, there is no legal notice period required to be given amongst co-tenants. The 60 notice that you are referring to is the minimum notice that tenants must give to a landlord to terminate a lease.
Good luck
Michael K. E. Thiele
www.ottawalawyers.com
Hello, I currently live with my significant other and am attending university. Yet for months now I've been finding it harder and harder to cope with my own mental health and anxiety issues along with our relationship. We are locked into a one year lease but I have been finding living with her more and more unhealthy. Is this grounds for breaking my lease and moving out without providing 60 days notice? Or am I locked into the one year term for good essentially?
ReplyDeleteHi: Suffering from health problems is not generally a basis for termination of a tenancy under the Residential Tenancies Act. It is not clear to me, from your question, whether your significant other wishes to terminate the lease as well. If you are able to speak with your S/O advise her that you are wanting to move out and that she should find a roommate or someone to replace you. If she too wants to move out then together you can try to find someone to assign the balance of the lease to.
DeleteTrying to balance living circumstances with healthful relationships can be difficult. There are situations of domestic violence, mental health, bullying, and other problems that make continued occupancy or fulfillment of the terms of a lease very difficult for a tenant. The hardship caused in fulfilling the lease may be entirely disproportionate to the actual consequences of simply terminating the tenancy and moving out. While I certainly maintain the position that contractual arrangements should be honoured and leases should be dealt with in accordance with the law, one can't forget that the law also provides a set of rules and obligations for what happens when a tenant unilaterally terminates a lease in the midst of a fixed term or even on a month to month. Sometimes life's circumstances are such that you need to take certain steps and bear the consequences of those steps. When those consequences are less onerous or burdensome than fulfilling the contractual relationship then it is worth considering breaching.
I don't know what you mean when you say "more and more unhealthy" but I am going to assume that what you are describing is quite serious. In that context you do have options and help can be found to solve your problem. I highly recommend that you go and speak with a lawyer and put all the details on the table that will allow the lawyer to help you determine what your reasonable range of options are in the circumstances.
Good luck
Michael K. E. Thiele
www.ottawalawyers.com
Hi. I moved to a new apartment 6 weeks ago. From day first I noticed that the tenant living below us has a mental issue since he was shouting, screaming and cursing loudly no matter what time of the day. We even experienced waking up at 2 am or 5 am because he started shouting. This is very inconvenient. But what mostly makes me upset is that the rental people did not tell me this issue before so that I could have the choice to move in or not. They told me they had an agreement with the tenant to move out but then they refused. So they are going to court on September 4. Do you expect them to be evicted after this court since they already had an agreement meaning that the rental and tenant have been working on the issue but no luck yet? Also, if the court does not issue the eviction order, what can I do as a tenant who was not told about this issue before signing the lease? I just threaten them that I won't be paying the rent till the issue is resolved or I will move out. Thank you in advance.
ReplyDeleteP.S: He is shouting right now at 11:50 pm and the way he does that really makes me nervous. I even started having nightmare that someone is breaking into my apartment and wants to hurt me!
Hi: This is trickier than it might seem and the answer--in the abstract and theoretical--is easier to accept than it is to actually live your experience. The neighbour you have has a disability (as you indicate). Asking the landlord to warn other tenants that they might not want to move in because of a disabled tenant next door is highly problematic and I think--likely contravenes the Human Rights Code in almost every incidence that I can imagine. Hence the warning you wanted is likely a warning the landlord could not give. Of course, the warning you wanted also does not help the landlord get rental income so that is likely also a reason why nothing was said.
DeleteThat being said, I can imagine a circumstance where everyone acting in good faith and there being no discrimination that a landlord would say to a prospective tenant that there is a neighbour with disabilities that is being accommodated and under the Human Rights Code even other tenant's have a duty to accommodate. Would this work in practice?
Ultimately, the landlord has a duty to provide you with quiet enjoyment. The obligation is not absolute for every moment of your tenancy. Simply, the landlord must take action to deal with disturbances and problems in the rental complex. If the landlord does this then the landlord has fulfilled its obligation to you even if you suffer some disturbance for a while.
Withholding rent, and saying what you've said to the landlord is understandable but I think you might end up on the wrong side of an Order if this went to the Board. Deciding to unilaterally move out will not terminate your lease obligations and if the landlord chooses it can pursue you for lost rent etc..
Michael K. E. Thiele
www.otttawalawyers.com
Hi Michael, thank you so much for all this information. It's so difficult to know where to start when dealing with this kind of thing.
ReplyDeleteMy mother suffers from schizophrenia (as far as I can surmise, given that I was kept in the dark by my parents). She currently resides on her own and has recently behaved violently with her neighbours, and the frequency/severity of her violent acts is increasing.
As far as I know, she has no social worker or any kind of care or support other than myself who she vehemently denies as her daughter. I keep in touch with her landlady, and pay her rent.
Her landlord and other tenants are afraid of her and have pressed charges. In the event that she is evicted, what are the options for her? I don't believe she can rent another apartment as she is clearly unwell. What steps are available to me, to force her to get help, see a doctor,or take medication? She will never do it willingly. Can she be left homeless? Am I able to place her into a nursing home as a last resort if she will never willingly agree to be taken or even agree to see a doctor to be assessed?
Thank you for your time and effort.
Hi:
DeleteThank you for your email. Your heartbreaking and tragic story is, unfortunately, not all that uncommon. You seem to be bearing the weight of this problem as you don't mention siblings or other family who could intervene and help. With that being the case, you ultimately will recognize that you can do only so much and that while your mother may be ill she retains her autonomy until such time as she is determined to lack capacity and in need of a guardian to make decisions etc.. There is a process for that. It involves a Court application. I'd recommend starting with the schizophrenia society and their resources (https://www.schizophrenia.on.ca/Get-Help/Services/Families) and then also look to the Public Guardian and Trustee ( https://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/family/pgt/guardinvestigation.html) . The links here you will need to cut and paste into your browser.
There are, of course, a lot of resources, books, brochures, that speak to living with a mental health problem, dealing with family with mental health problems, etc., but finding a strategic road map to "action" and dealing later with the emotional elements can be difficult. As you clearly recognize, your mother's landlord and her neighbours are not going to be tolerant much longer and eviction will occur if something isn't done.
As the PGT website (link above) indicates, that office isn't in a position to respond to urgent situations. Their investigation and work takes time. You have the ability to also seek court intervention (guardianship application), but the expense is significant and you will need to retain counsel to make this happen. The first step, I imagine, would be an Order requiring your mother to undergo a capacity assessment. In situations of urgency (immediate harm, self harm), the police can be called and your mother could be detained and hospitalized (against her will). Police forces in major urban centres have teams for mental health crisis events. It is worth a visit to your local police station to ask for help and see what resources they have.
That is the best I can suggest in the context of this forum. If you have the resources, please do find an experienced lawyer who can assist. The subject area is Guardianship Applications, Substitute Decisions Act, Consent and Capacity, when searching for counsel.
With respect to the Landlord and Tenant Board. The landlord may apply to evict your mother for any behaviours arising out of her disability. If those behaviours are grounds for termination (substantial interference, illegal act, impaired safety, etc.), then she could indeed be evicted. A landlord has a duty to accommodate a person with a disability to the point of undue hardship. Assuming a connection between the alleged behaviours and the schizophrenia the landlord will be expected to put some accommodation into place that allows your mother to continue her tenancy (if possible). In practical terms this is very difficult. Unless the person with the disability is able to cooperate and express their needs clearly, or the person's family is involved and creating a structure that allows a landlord to assist, the likely outcome is eviction. It is exceptionally difficult for a landlord to provide support to a person with mental health problems where that person isn't cooperating and there is no family. Things a landlord can do is to try to involve community supports, reach out to mental health crisis services, and see if there are tiggers or things happening in the building that if changed would eliminate the problem. But beyond that, it can be impossible to solve the issues.
DeleteThe duty to accommodate a person with a disability to the point of undue hardship does not mean that the landlord and the neighbours just have to accept the problematic behaviour. The duty to accommodate is not a licence for the disabled person to act as they wish. It is this reality that often leads to a termination and eviction at the LTB. If the tenant then does not have the resources to find other housing or access services or get into a shelter then it is indeed possible that they end up homeless. The situation can be quite dire and no one working in the system (adjudicators, lawyers, landlords, Board staff, mediators, etc.) believes the outcome to be satisfactory. The LTB process when it comes to dealing with persons lacking capacity is quite poor. Capacity is presumed even when it is clear that there are serious concerns. Aside from adjournments, etc., to try and create a fair proceeding, the LTB ultimately has no power to appoint a guardian and if no one steps forward they end up dealing with the person as presumptively capable. Right or wrong, this is what happens.
I hope that this has been helpful to you and good luck in dealing with this very difficult situation.
Michael K. E. Thiele
www.ottawalawyers.com
Is there a term whereby a landlord allows a person with squalor syndrome to stay and long term neighbouring tenants move out. New tenants move in at new rent levels sometimes 5-600 more a month!
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