Landlord threatens to move in a relative? This tenant says get advice first | CBC News
Hamell had been renting a three-bedroom duplex in White
Oaks with his partner and three teenage children for seven years when
his landlord knocked on the door in 2017, saying he needed to raise the
rent from $1,100 to $1,200.
Oaks with his partner and three teenage children for seven years when
his landlord knocked on the door in 2017, saying he needed to raise the
rent from $1,100 to $1,200.
Landlords
are allowed to raise the rent on existing tenants, but only by an
annual percentage set by the province. In recent years, it’s hovered
around two per cent. Had his landlord made those annual legal rent
increases, Hamell would have been paying more than $1,200 by 2017.
It
wasn’t so much the increase but the way Hamell alleges it came:
Accompanied by a threat from landlord Mo Zebian that unless he agreed to
pay the new rate, the landlord would evict him so his daughter could
move in.