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| 1064 Brenchley, vacant since June 2023. |
Louis Shalako
Landlordie McLandlordface and How to Deal
With Them.
I was talking to a friend about the building across the street, vacant since June '23. She told me once a building had been vacant for 12 months, rent control no longer applies and the landlord can charge what they want. I would like to know the source of this information, or is it a misreading, a rumour, or merely a supposition.
"These provisions only apply during the period that begins on the date the landlord gave the tenant the notice and ends one year after the former tenant moves out of the unit."
This is right down near the bottom of the page, written in the usual legalese. Also, with no visible activity from contractors on site, it seems more likely the landlord is in financial troubles, what with high interest rates and a labour shortage.
(See link below. - ed.)
It can only go on for so long before some Canadian journalist notices. At some point, any rational landlord unable to complete such a project would put up a 'for sale' sign.
My reading of the text indicates that there are only so many eligible relatives available to the landlord in the N-12 eviction. A second cousin, thrice-removed, does not qualify. And MillDon, recently spun off from Steeves & Rozema, has 1,050 units in buildings across southern Ontario.
I probably have more cousins than you do.
The situation is this. We have 150 people, men, women and children, living in a tent encampment at Rainbow Park. We have a 34-unit walkup at 1064 Brenchley Ave, sitting empty since June 1/23. And if every single person renovicted on that date had simply filed an N-5 notice of intent, the law clearly states that they have the right to re-occupy their unit, at the old rate, (presumably subject to regular rental increases based on the rate of inflation and Province of Ontario rulings), and yet we have some sense that other factors, financing, may also be in play. Yet the law is clear enough. Who in the hell is there to enforce that law, remains unclear.
It sure as hell ain't going to be Sarnia Police Chief Derek Davis and Sarnia Police Services. They're overstretched, underpaid, short-staffed, and wondering how in the hell they're going to get another 17 % budget increase this year, what with the city paying $122,000.00 per month for porta-Johnnies down at Rainbow Park, which, when you think about, might have gone a long way in making mortgage payments on some kind of a building somewhere...
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If every single tenant evicted had filed an N-5 form, the landlord is
essentially fucked.
Game over. Think about it. They renovict 34 households, making millions
in ‘investment’, so that they can ‘safely’ make necessary repairs and upgrades
to the building, and then, every single tenant comes home to reoccupy their old
unit, at more or less the same old price.
This is the sort of information Doug Ford and his droogs do not want you
to have.
Sarnia City Councilor Dill Bennis would have us believe that the folks
at the encampment are all born criminals, drug addicts, pedophiles, robbers,
transvestites, sex workers, mother-stabbers and father-rapers, arsonists and
highwaymen, and Apaches, and just plain shirkers, lazy cunts and no-good layabouts, ladies and gentlemen.
He used to be a realtor, but by his own account, gave up a $500,000.00 per year job in order to become a city councilor for what, less than forty grand a year. I'm not too interested in the so-called gentleman's opinion.
To hear his words on the radio, Cool 106.3, “I don’t care about these
people,” was not exactly a revelation. Just for the record, on-air content must
be logged on a 24/7/365 basis and submitted to the CRTC, the Canadian Radio and
Television Commission. His words are on the permanent historical record of this
nation.
I reckon poor old Bill has quite a list of people he doesn't care about. Perhaps he will tell us what, or who, or whom, he actually does care about, hopefully at some point in the future, perhaps before the election, which he plans to win, assuming not too many folks actually turn up to vote...in the meantime, it's a bit of a secret, but open to speculation.
And in the unlikely case that your second cousin, thrice removed, needed an apartment, in the N-12 eviction scenario, while they recovered from a heroin addiction, learned to play the drums, got back on their feet and went back to school to learn aromatherapy for assholes and ear-candling, and neuro-linguistic programming, why in the hell would they ever want to pay $2,149.00 per month for a shit apartment in a three-floor walkup in the central city. It's not like they have any money either.
As
for myself, I am not a lawyer, but I can afford one in a pinch, otherwise, talk
to the lawyers and paralegals over at Community Legal Assistance Sarnia.
Some of them seem fairly bright.
#Louis
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No Place to Go: Eviction Story, 1064 Brenchley. (Sarnia Journal)
I, Dill Bennis, Armed With Strong Mayor Powers.
Dill Bennis Claims Homeless Being Bussed in to Rainbow Park. (Presumably, to cause problems for Dill Bennis.)
Louis Shalako has books and stories available from Amazon.
He also seems fairly bright...
Thank you for reading.
