Unpaid rent, arrests, arson: Fed-up landlords fight back

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The tenant set fire to that man’s house but still had rights as a tenant!! That is total madness. The system is not only broken, it is creating dangerous and desparate situations.

The LTB has failed both honest tenants and honest landlords. The system needs to punish bad actors on both sides.

Can someone tell me why nonpayment should not equal automatic eviction?? Is there any other service that you can use and not pay?! Can you eat at a restaurant and leave without paying?! This is theft! Its a crime!! My tenant has an income of 250 k annually, 2 VERY high end SUVs in the driveway, and hasnt paid since day 1!! Just because he can. This is the result of a broken system that allows and perhaps promotes this criminal behavior. Nonpayment of rent should be immediate automatic eviction, period.

Bravo to CBC for allowing comments on YouTube. So proud of you for this historic breakthrough.

The LTB is a joke. Automatic eviction for non-payment of rent. Simple as that

Somebody should sue the Landlord and Tenant Board for dereliction of duty.

So if the Homeowner runs out of money,and theBank repossess the home, does the non-paying tenant become of the responsibility bank? Does theBank have to go through the tenancy board to evict the tenant? This is crazy. Who in their right mind would want to invest in residential property in Canada ? 🇨🇦

This is a failure of Provincial governments, it's time to make them liable for all of this loss.

Once my tenants are gone, I’m done renting to. To much of a risk

Best thing we ever did was sell our rental property! The stress-relief was incredible!

My parents were also a victim to a tenant that refused to pay rent for months and has done this to multiple other people. It’s just sick that they get away with this. WE NEED STRICT PUNISHMENTS FOR PEOPLE DELIBERATELY NOT PAYING RENT.

Our government needs to get back to work and give the service that we need !!! This is bs !

Great story showing the other side of the coin. I am a small landlord with amazing tenants, but I know other landlords with horror stories like this. I've also seen nightmare landlords. Good landlords and good tenants need to band together to lobby the government to fix Ontario's Landlord & Tenant Board. The LTB needs to address BOTH bad tenants and bad landlords within a month, not a year. A broken system is hurting only responsible tenants and landlords.

my neighbor rented a house to a couple both had good paying jobs he got first and last months rent then nothing for 2 years and had to pay them $10000.00 to move out so he could sell it before he lost it due to non payment of rent ......a friend has an apt in his house he rents out but the tenant has mental problems goes on an off his meds smashed holes in the walls stolen and sold most of the furniture in the apt the anxiety caused my friend to have a heart attack he has been waiting almost 15 months for a hearing with the LTB and it will be a zoom meeting ....why arent these LTB offices open to the public are they working from home ?

I was a landlord twice. Never again.

I know a retired couple who owned a rental property & who got hosed by their renters. They had to repair their home after the renter eventually left, & they then sold the rental home. There are too many irresponsible people out there who rely on their right to inhabit properties for free.

Renting is about providing a home for others and sitting on that investment as a nest egg, it is not for quick profit

I don’t understand how it is too difficult for good landlords to get bad tenants evicted, but it is too easy for bad landlords to evict good tenants only to raise the rental prices and re-rent it. 🧐

You know what's missing from this story? The manner in which governments are ensuring citizens can not get ahead financially. At every turn, the average person trying to stay above water financially, is burdened, reburdended, and overburdened to ensure that they can never get ahead. That's what absolute power does...keeps everyone else down.