The Residential Tenancies Act states if tenants are asked to vacate for renovations, they can choose to move back without a substantial rent increase, as long as they inform their landlord in writing of their intent to return. Tenants at 11 Walmer Rd. are still waiting three years later.
Tenants in a Montreal apartment complex called Le Plateau dropped banners on November 26 from the balconies of many units in protest of the apparent failure of negotiations between the building's owners, Cromwell Management Inc., and the 14 remaining tenants in the building.
A Toronto woman maintains she's being unfairly kicked out of the apartment she's lived in for 15 years. But the building's owners tell a very different story.