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Originally Posted by Traum
Solutions and tools have to be effective and reasonable for people to use them. Otherwise, they will just look for alternatives to achieve the goals that they are trying to achieve. That is exactly how the end of a term lease has turned into a tool for landlords to evict tenants -- it's because all the other rules have gotten too stupid and blindly and unreasonably too much in favour of tenants.
Of course the government can enact rules (and laws) to do a lot of unreasonable things. But in this case, the consequences will be no private small time landlords would want to become landlords, and then the residential rental supply goes down. And then you just have to ask -- are the tenants really benefiting from this?
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I get it, I get both sides, I'm neutral. I rented for 5 years so I can relate to their side, but I own my own home so I can relate to the property rights aspect. But, I
know that for every shitty tenant out there is an equally shitty landlord.
Like this Gem:
I will agree though that the current NDP government seems to have enacted policies that more heavily favour the tenants. They have definately picked their side.