Landlords are people too. If you aren’t helping them protect their assets, you’re not protecting them either.
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Also, part of protecting people is ensuring they can live in safe, healthy housing. A landlord prohibiting smoking so a tenant doesn’t have an asthma attack because the non-smoking renter is living in an apartment next to a smoker, or limiting the number of pets in a small area so smell and pests don’t overwhelm neighbors ultimately protects other tenants.
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Pet allergies came to mind as well depending on layout/ventilation etc. I am also hyper sensitive to any kind of smoke and couldn’t share any kind of close space with a smoker even if they were outside.
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You and me both! I can not imagine being a tenant in a place where there is no ability to limit smokers. The smoke does not just stay in their unit, even if that is where they smoke.
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I think I drove my parents nuts as a kid with this! Every time we went to a restaurant before they banned smoking inside, we would have to move at least once depending on how the smoke was drifting from the smoking section. It was awful. I was so happy when it was banned in my state. It also makes travel planning fun! I got super sick in Paris between the cigarettes and the diesel fumes.
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I’m still curious what the eviction for non payment process looks like in Canada. I know here in the states, it’s a nightmare for landlords.
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That is my understanding too.
Ridiculous.
The rental market is for people. And if you do nothing to preserve that market, the people will have nowhere to go. Renting is only profitable/“pleasurable” when you aren’t dealing with crappy tenants.
Even if you say the rental market isn’t any worse than it was before, I guarantee you that there are people who are considering renting out a house or a unit that are saying “NOPE” once they realize they are brutally unprotected should things go south. They are instead buying rental properties elsewhere.
A lease is a contract, like any other contract. The fact that a tenant is not legally obligated to obey the wishes of a property owner in regards to non necessary things like pets is asinine. You have, or want to have a dog? Go find a pet friendly rental.
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Eh, be careful of using the word “we” and implying you represent the feelings of entire population of Canada. Its obvious you stereotype all landlords as mean spirited, greedy, money grubbing robber barons as well…based on what you repeatedly tell us. Thats your opinion, fine. But leave the “we” out of it.
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How presumptuous of you! I most certainly do not. Back when I rented I had great landlords.
I also left their places in better shape than when I moved in (their words, not mine) without having had to pay any sort of damage fee and with having cats and a significant other move in during my tenancy.
Not my use of ‘we’ whatsoever, but carry on. ‘We’ is used to describe our laws/regulations/the people that put those laws/regulations into effect, etc. It is not used as a representative of the entire population.
This is completely laughable. Brand new houses right in my little city are being rented out practically before the driveways are paved. I’m not sure why it’s so hard to imagine that protecting tenants is so horrible that it will cause the rental market to crash. It’s not.
When I said “before” if I even said that, I meant before our housing crisis, not before these laws. These laws are really not that new. Allowing pets and not allowing landlords to take damage deposits has not been affecting the market.
Similar nightmare to elsewhere, I think, but my knowledge on this is limited.
That’s all covered. Evictions can happen for impacting someone else’s health.
So, a landlord can’t make the building no smoking or not let you rent because you smoke (or have a dog), they have to let you move in. Then evict you after someone that lives there already gets sick?
That seems less than logical.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to allow no pets and no smoking so that person does not have to get sick?
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My thoughts exactly!
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@sascha is correct. Our tenant/landlord laws are slanted heavily in favour of a tentant
very similarly our employee/employer laws are slanted heavily in favour of the employee.
It took my friend 15 months to finally evict a disastrous non-paying tenant. She still rents because it is a very good investment long term. a 1 bedroom condo is currently renting for $2k / month on average plus utilities and parking.
Bo back to the Original Topic:
I have always asked if a farm allows part boarders. Our barn does vet boarders and will kick out a troublesome partboarder. I have only heard about charging a ring fee on COTH. I personally would not board somewhere that charges this fee.
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Can they sue for damages and win?
Yes but it’s generally cheaper to just get the problem tenant gone in the long run. It costs thousands to sue here.
So should a tenant damage property they don’t own, or doesn’t clean worth a damn on the way out… without a security deposit, the landlord is just left holding the bag?
Yep
