Tenants of a low-rent Parkdale apartment complex are raising concerns after receiving eviction-for-renovation notices from their landlord — a company run by a developer whose other operation was fined repeatedly in 2019 for refusing to allowIn January, numerous tenants of 12 Lansdowne Ave.
The other director of 795 College Inc. is Evan Johnsen — who was a director of 12 Lansdowne Inc. for part of 2020, though spokesperson Danny Roth said he gave up the post that August. While Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board fined the company $75,000 — the maximum amount allowed at the time for three units — the adjudicator noted it was still “profiting enormously.” The old tenants paid $1,250 for three-bedroom units, and the new tenants between $4,150 and $4,200. Over a year, that was a difference of nearly $105,000.
Under the old rules, a landlord could be ordered to pay their tenant the difference between their old rent and the rent they incurred for a year after being kicked out. Under the new rules, which came into effect in September, landlords can be ordered to compensate a tenant for an amount up to a year of their old rent, if the landlord was found to have acted in bad faith or did not provide a tenant with their right of first refusal. Tenants will have two years to make those applications.
All three have worried about their new landlord’s plans, after staff at a legal clinic alerted them to the case at 795 College St.
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I'm sure he just builds the fines into his renoviction budget