Posts Tagged ‘evictions’
Did Your Tenants Pay May 1st Rent?
Friday, May 1st, 2020PAY YOUR RENT CAMPAIGN 2020
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
Smart Tenants Will Pay Rent & Cooperate With Your Landlord For a Win-Win Situation
Small landlords know the challenges tenants face. Because we faced them too! Many us were renters before.
We want to work with you to keep you renting from us.
Please know that just because we own a rental property, or rent out our basement, doesn’t mean we are rich. We aren’t.
Many of us are working class people who have decided to avoid the crazy stock market and buy a rental property to help us when we retire.
We need rent to be paid so we can also survive and want to cooperate with you to make sure we have a win-win relationship. We have to pay our mortgage, property taxes, insurance, maintenance.
There are calls saying “Don’t Pay Rent” all over social media
We want to make sure tenants know good landlords want to work with you for all of us surviving.
We support tenants in need, but many of us are also on the financial edge!
To prove our support, thousands of landlords and this association are lobbying both the provincial and federal government to create a nation-wide “rent bank” that will help tenants in need get grants or low-cost loans to pay rent.
This will make sure there is no “landlord-tenant” conflicts or haggling and keep landlords in business and tenants safe in their rental homes.
Something similar to the Canada student loan system where people in temporary need get financial help from the government.
Landlords want to work with tenants (and tenant groups) to make this happen. And happen fast!
Avoid The “Don’t Pay Your Rent” Memes and Media
This isn’t a poor tenant vs. a rich evil landlord issue.
It’s a working class tenant facing challenges renting from a working class small landlord who is also facing challenges.
If you don’t pay rent (like so many are saying) it will lead to eventually being evicted with large debts, and your search for a new home will include no reference and bad credit.
Good Landlords and Good Tenants Working Together
Tenants make sure you pay your rent on time, or work it out with your landlord.
Short term easy answers like “don’t pay rent” will lead to unnecessary problems for tenants a few months from now.
These groups should be joining us to lobby for a nation-wide rent bank to truly help tenants instead of wanting to “stick it to the landlord” (which only lead to legal issues down the road). But it’s so sexy to be a revolutionary, right?
Be Smart
If you can’t pay rent work things out with your landlord who will give you a discount or deferred payments.
Paying Rent or Cooperating With Your Landlord On A Fair Payment Plan Is the Smart Move!
Nova Scotia Landlords & Tenants Working Together
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
We Invite Nova Scotia Tenants To Join Us In An Important Conversation On How To Improve the Rental Industry
Experienced and successful Nova Scotia landlords know one of the keys to success is to find good paying tenants. A good tenant will pay the rent on time and treat both the rental property and the landlord with respect. While many people think all landlords are rich the reality is very different.
Nova Scotia And Bad Tenants
Nova Scotia landlords do not have it easy at all! We aren’t big corporations with economies of scale, expensive lawyers on retainer and millions on the bank. We have a lot of challenges trying to run our rental businesses. Not only do we have to face tenants who abuse the system we also have to worry about new changes such as how legal marijuana will impact our rental properties.
Good Tenants
We also know there are lots of good hard-working and honest renters out there. These are people who do treat their landlord and rental with respect on pay on time and respect the lease. These are tenants who desire there to be more high quality affordable housing for rent and don’t want those bad tenants to get landlords to leave the business, leaving less rentals on the market.
Good Landlords & Good Tenants, Working Together!
Good Nova Scotia landlords are looking to rent to good tenants and good Saskatchewan tenants want to rent from good landlords. So how about this? Let’s all work together as positive forces of good and improve the Nova Scotia rental industry!
Instead Of Confrontation & Blaming We Want Cooperation And Communication
We are inviting good Nova Scotia tenants to join us in the following ways to help improve our situation:
Share Your Stories and Opinions With Us
Share your experiences renting in Nova Scotia and you can help other tenants, landlords and educate people and play a role in improving the Nova Scotia rental industry.
Become A Tenant Community Leader for the Nova Scotia Tenant Forum
We are looking for 5 experienced Nova Scotia tenants to help run our Tenant forum and make it as helpful as possible for other Nova Scotia tenants to learn from. As Tenant Community Leader who will be able to invite other verified tenants to join our forum to help educate the community. The goal is to create a sophisticated place for tenants to chat with each other.
Provide Us With Your Ideas for Policy Changes
Do you think some things need to change in Nova Scotia? We invite you to share your policy ideas with us.
Nova Scotia Landlords and Tenants in our Nova Scotia Rental Community
Let’s work together in 2018 for our mutual success. Let’s improve the rental industry and play a role in forming new policies. We invite tenants to join our community. If you are interested please email us at tenantexperiences@groupmail.com by January 15, 2018. Make sure you let us know about you and your renting experience and how you want to help (please note only those accepted with receive a reply)
Update on January 15, 2018
Thank you for the overwhelming response of Tenants across Nova Scotia (and the region)! We now have filled the available positions for Nova Scotia (and regional) Tenant Community leaders. Keep watching for our next recruitment drive!.
Clifton St. evictions planned before shooting
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012July 10th, 2012
The landlord of a Halifax apartment building where a man was killed last month sent eviction notices to all of her tenants just days before the shooting.
Fatma Askri says she wants to dispel any notions about her property on Clifton Street.
“The shooting really destroyed me because I am not a crack landlord. I don’t run crack houses. I’m a very hardworking lady. I don’t run slum apartments,” she told CBC News on Tuesday.
Corey Duane Lucas was shot and killed in the building on May 25. Two weeks later, police returned to the property looking for drugs and weapons.
Halifax Regional Police said officers have been to the building 47 times since January 2011 — an average of nearly three times a month.
There are nine apartments in the building. Askri said it “became a crack house” when new tenants moved in to apartments 1 and 2.
Askri rented Apartment 2 to William Lee Bolliver and his mother, Susan Hawes, last October. They were arrested after a police raid Friday and charged with trafficking crack cocaine and oxycodone, and possession of a weapon.
Apartment 2 is where Lucas was gunned down. Bolliver was injured in the shooting. Black fingerprint dust was still visible on the door frame Tuesday.
Askri said she regrets ignoring the advice of her property managers when it came to renting to Hawes, who was on income assistance.
She didn’t do a criminal record check like she has done on other applicants.
Askri said Hawes called her crying, begging to be let into the building.
“I messed up with Hawes,” she said. “Because of my compassion, I messed up.”
When complaints about suspected drug activity started to pile up from tenants and neighbours in the upscale building next door, Askri decided the building needed a fresh start.
One month to leave
In mid-May, three days before Lucas was shot, Askri served all of her tenants with eviction notices. She said she told them it was due to repairs to the building.
“I took on myself to clean the building and start fresh again because bad apples spoil the rest of the basket,” she said.
Askri said she’s still shocked by the fatal shooting.
“I was devastated and I still am,” she said. “I didn’t expect this to happen in my building.”
The tenants have until June 22 to move out, but most are already gone. Askri said one woman who moved in last month is getting an extra few months to find a place because she’s such a new tenant.
Hawes, Bolliver and a co-accused are in custody awaiting a bail hearing next Monday.
Police have not arrested anyone in connection with Lucas’ death.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/06/12/ns-halifax-clifton-street-eviction.html
