View Single Post
Old 06-06-2011, 06:06 PM   #1
Chronix
Diagonally parked in a parallel universe
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 1,437
Thanked 5,158 Times in 579 Posts
Failed 1,900 Times in 209 Posts
Douchebag house owner kicking my parents out

So the story is my parents live upstairs while the owners daughter live by herself downstairs (Owners live in separate house). My parents and the daughter had a fallout a few months back. So since then, the daughter have been using passive aggressive tactics to piss my parents off (turning on running water throughout the night, late night laundry runs, slamming the doors, cooking weird and smelly shit and ventilate the stench to the upper level). We complained this to the daughter's parents (the owners) but all they said is the daughter doesn't listen to them so the owner can't do anything about it.

Recently, the hot water in the house didnt work upstairs and the owner who is obligated to fix it, didn't and kept saying they will soon. A week later, my dad got fed up and hired his own plumber to fix the problem.

The contract for the rent is ending at the end of June and now they wanted to bump the rent up which is bullshit considering they didnt take care of the house when they're supposed to. My parents were reluctant to pay for the extra but decided they want to sign a new contract with the new rent increase but then the owner CHANGED her mind and said they want the house back and pretty much told my parents to GTFO by the end of June.

Is this legal? I read somewhere the tenant should have three months to find a new place even if the contract expired.

From my few meetings with the owners, they were like mainland chinese fobs who are pretty damn cheap in repairs and shit.
Chronix is offline   Reply With Quote