An Ontario man is sleeping in his car because tenants in his income property haven’t paid rent for months leaving him too broke to pay rent somewhere else. Property owners in several provinces say wait times to get disputes heard have ballooned and governments must do more to evict delinquent tenants.
In today's Morning Brief, property owners in several provinces say wait times to get disputes heard have ballooned and governments must do more to evict delinquent tenants.
A landlord trying to evict a tenant who allegedly used fraudulent documents to rent a unit in her Mississauga, Ont., home says she's been told the wait time to get a notice for a hearing date at Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Board is between eight and 10 months. Landlord and tenant advocates say her situation is not uncommon.