urbanriot You are arguing that the lack of discussion politically on an issue is the same as compete consent and acceptance to that issue. No, that isn’t how it works. The bitchings out of the National Pest corporate agenda of furthering american corporate profitability do not sway me. In Ontario the backlog of cases is still causing the bulk of the issues what should take a week takes months or years and that is costing people money, sometimes into foreclosure. The NDP has talked about it in Ontario, but despite the blazing incompetence, greed and graft of the ruling party they got re-elected, I have to say the public would rather feed on bullshit than the truth.
So even though in the most polarized states of a two party system they can do what we cannot? Come on, pick up the phone and call you MP and tell them what you want, call Ford’s phone number and if you can get through leave a message. Again even muncilaplites have passed laws (likely the sort you don’t like) which will cut done on renovictions. It is possible and if you want it, apply pressure.
On the issue of drug use, If I employed you would also not be able to do that either. You seem to be of the pro-cog types, reduce rights of those that are economically less well off than others. As for bad renters it’s why these somewhat unregulated blacklists have popped up, people can use them to check and see if the person is a deadbeat. They aren’t perfect but do harm the worst offenders and I think that is wonderful.
I can sue you for any reason, so could any other person, doesn’t mean they will win. More so I can’t find a case in which a junkie sued for discrimination of their drug use either. There are functional alcoholics, and functional drug users, also there are dysfunctional ones that entirely fall apart, the key difference is function, if they are paying the rent and not trashing the place, while their indulgences might be offensive or irritating you & me, the burden is to show their actions are doing considerable harm or risk and that is a high burden to prove.
What you want is to have all the cards on the table, life doesn’t work that way and it shouldn’t either. As for your anecdotal claims, the LTB uses adjudicators, not judges so it sounds more like some sort of civil action going on. Collecting on a civil case is definitely problematic, a landlord trying to recover on a ruling that judged the cause of the damage and destruction to be on the tennant is pretty hard. I do not know what happend to your friends but am aware that you need pretty good evidence to prove the argument and win the case at the LTB. I’ve been there (evicting piglets), and had to deal with the costs of cleaning up their mess too. That brings me to another point, being a landlord requires a lot of knowledge and understanding that most investor type do not have, perhaps they used a real estate professional (ha!) to vet tenants and deal with the day to day issues or some other management group. Even with all that you can and will be SOL if you don’t know what to do, and what information you need. One thing you can afford is emotion.
If you want to be a landlord stick to commercial property, it’s easier to deal with in that you as the owner of the property can lock out a tenant that is not paying their rent without issues of human rights and other things. Not to say corporation or business people aren’t also freeloading types, or late on their rent, or will not jerk you around but you has the owner have more power because the entity renting the space is a business, not a person as it should be.