Is your basement rental legal?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 เม.ย. 2022
- Power partially cut off to a Mississauga family's home and alleged harassment from the landlord just days after they couldn't pay rent. Erica Natividad investigates your tenant rights and an often overlooked question.
$1600 a month for a basement, disgraceful that we continue to allow foreign investors and local investors to purchase homes to make money off. Families having to live in basement because Joe Jr using dads money owns 20 houses to rent out to get even richer.
That is actually very reasonable for a 2 bedroom. Here in small town Ontario, you pay 1800 plus. You are out of touch. Get informed. This is everybody's concern.
@@alisonfraser8231 ya and its not just. We are in a super killer deadly pandemic where everyone is dropping dead left and right people are worried about jobs and staying g alive the one and only right thing to do is raise prices on everything
@@alisonfraser8231 Just because it's reasonable COMPARED to what YOU pay, doesn't mean it's right. Get with the program, EVERYTHING is going up, but what? That's right, people's income. Lets just make this problem worse, right? That's what you want apparently. How about thinking outside the box and realize YOU ARE PAYING TOO MUCH AS WELL. smh
@@alisonfraser8231 No you are extremely out of touch A basement for 1600$? If YOU can't afford the home don't count on some stranger living in your basement.
What about the rising costs of living, utilities, groceries? It's everywhere
Now every renter who watches this video knows not to rent out to this guy.
We rented out our 1 bedroom basement apartment to a Jamaican lady in Brampton and we only charged 850 a month with internet and cable included. When we wanted to raise the rent to 875 she decided to move out but reported our illegal basement to the city.
ya. and they wonder why people will not rent to people -
why not keep the rent where it was? like 25 more will make a difference.
@@barlowsmith6242 but honestly whenever i have had to deal with renters for my last rental takeover, i met some of the entitled, fickle, characterless people in existence. if you don't want the place fine. but don't pretend otherwise. and please don't string along people.
@@asadb1990 nah she was getting a bit arrogant so we wanted to raise the rent and take away the cable tv and internet. It was a blessing in disguise too because she moved out before this whole COVID fiasco. It would have been harder to get rid of her during COVID and she would always bring strange men to the basement and play her music loud.
Him renting a basement apartment wasn’t a problem until he decided not to pay
most basement are illegal anyway
True, but it doesn't make it okay. Brampton has had a ton of fires due to illegal basement dwellings
When the city can't enforce its bylaws and expects the would be renters to jump loops to find out.
That 10% increase in rent every year is also illegal.
A 10% increase is illegal in legal rentals. In illegal rentals, it is legal because there is no legal in illegal rentals...
actually its legal in rentals that don't have rent control.
$1600 for a basement ! That's insane
Yes, what's so strange about $1600 for basement? Have been living in a cave? Welcome to Toronto
@@peter300pete exactly, look at the price of electricity, gas and the property taxes
@C. lol hardship yeah right with $1600 a month for a lousy basement. If the owner can't afford to be a homeowner without a renter then he should sell his property, as simple as that. Doesn't have to be a homeowner !
@@Carolinapetroska tell that to the people who wants a house , tell them to become a home owner. So they won't have these problems
Lol, not in Toronto, especially for a 2 bedroom. A listing for a basement apartment (newly renovated mind you) was listed at $3700
Wow 1600 is nuts
for a 2 bedroom, is it really? most 1 bedroom condos are 1800 to 2000
@@zerk9240 in edmonton i rent a 3 level house 3 bedrooms upstairs and 2 bathrooms main level 1 bedroom and bathroom 2 living rooms and kitchen and a 2 bedroom basement suite for 1900. .everyone us being had
@@beausgaming7046 I'm out in Toronto so yeah prices are quite a bit different
@@zerk9240 A lot of apartments/condos charge separate fee for parking and locker, so yeah, one BR costs around 2200 per month
@@zerk9240 It's truly amazing that people live inside boxes like you. You can't think that what YOU pay is too much as well? Nahhh, you must be filthy rich and you don't care how much you pay. Must be nice to live inside a bubble. smh
3rd world problems
Get your own house and don't pay the bills and c what happens. This is for anyone who thinks they have the right to live free .
Government keep bringing new people here cuz of that rent is getting higher and higher every 6 months
have an empty apartment which I will not rent, lost 2 years of income due to tenant board and was only charging $800 with utilities, internet, cable, etc but now its just not worth the headache of bad tenants. I understand why people are charging $1600.
If Vancouver ever clamped down on illegal suites, it would cause a humanitarian crisis
If you need to rent out your basement to make the mortgage payments you have done what so many have done - over extended yourself and bought more than you can afford. Wouldn't want to rely on a tenant to help pay for my house. A close friend or relative, maybe.
We have a crisis in Ontario with out of control prices and rent, but the politicians don’t care because most of them have property investments everywhere. They are making a lot of money on overpriced houses and ridiculous rentals. Why would any corrupt politician want to stop that?
….somehow I DON’T believe the landlord’s lame reasons. Furthermore, if the landlord relies this rental income to get by….he’s not ready to own a house like that. At the end-of-the-day, why would you want to live with stranger(s) in the same house.
Bad tenant and bad landlord. Good match.
Time to go after all ontario towns to look into all Rental units....we are In a housing crisis and the problem people the landlords and milti property owners are cashing in on illegal activity...
CRY ME A RIVER - IF the dead beat tenant would pay his rent all would be okay - the Tenant is not paying rent and expecting to live there free. but oh no its always the big bad landlords problem! Ontario has a huge shortage yet they harass landlords about so called illegal units which are only illegal because they say they are. it tenants dont like them then dont rent them and leave!!!!!!! this is all just ridiculous !
All costs are going up,,, what is a landlord supposed to do,,,, if a renter does not like it then fork over a million dollars for your own digs!
No pay, no play
jokes on the lanlord. he backed himself in to a corner
Never rent.
The renters have more rights than the owner.
I’d be worried about an electrical fire with the amount of power bars and extension cords being used.
So long as it has a breaker, it will just trip. Adding extra cords isn't going to increase the capacity of the electrical wiring.
@@Todd.T actually there should be a single breaker to each outlet specially the ones being used to power high consumption appliances like toaster, kettle, microwave, etc. that way you can run these applicances as the same time.
@@asadb1990 Not sure why you're telling me this. Karen is worried that if you plug to many things into an outlet, there will be a fire as if the house was wired from th 1920s.
A lot of these houses were wired by friends and family of the same ethnicity who are not qualified and in their home country they were the "electricity guy". Old houses didn't have electrical outlets at the panels, but most home hackers don't use old houses.
So the typical illegal basement apartment, but not all in newer homes runs off the circuit for the outlet that now comes at the panel. They just up the breaker size and tell the tenant not to plug in too many things.
I have been to a house where there were 4 rooms in the basement and they all had to inform each other when they were going to use a hairdryer or the microwave or the breaker would trip.
My sister's 1970 condo? In the kitchen each half of a duplex receptacle had it's own 15 amp breaker...
@@Todd.T im telling you the difference in the way most basements are wired vs the proper way to wire basements. the high power consumption plugs should wired independently to each breaker. most contractors and diy people don't do this and when the end user is using a microwave and electric kettle at the same time. and things automatically power off. this gets annoying af.
He wants out of the lease? Then get out. Its not nuclear science.
could not agree more. amazing how little common sense there is on this issue. take a hike and find another place. but no he wants to sit there and pay nothing
I have seen it many times, mr goody kiss but the landlord never raises the rent and 10 years later you have a tenant paying HALF of what they should be - and no tenant has ever thanked a landlord for anything - its the way it works folks! being a landlord is not about charity its about business!!!!!
Dont be a lawyer just for tenants. I had one tenant who first of all lied to me that she will be staying by herself alone but then she brought her 21 year old little son and a huge dog and on the top she stopped paying rent ...she stayed without rent for 16 months, did damages and what not and on the top when leaving she called city to let them know that my basement was illegal. I paid 2200 to city and lost 16 months of rent plus damages..once bitten twice shy... will never rent my basement to anyone even for free
Boo hoo my government probably gave you a loan for your house because your fresh of the boat they also gave you that loan so you can have your illegal basement apartment. So quite your bitching already
I feel it. Faced the same situation in Brampton in 2021. Even though my unit was Registered, rented to a couple, later found out that they had their whole family of sisters Brother and Mother started living with them for free. We paid the bills and basement damages when they left without paying 4 months rent. Very Frustrating, had to sell the property. Now bought a home out of city.
guess you shouldn't have had an illegal apartment.
@@986kph You will be one of the homeless if all so-called illegal basements were to be pulled off the rental market.😂😂😂
You own nothing, and you never will.😂😂
This.@@986kph
Journalists don’t care what happens with a homeowner when they don’t pay one month to a bank for mortgage payment.
How'd the landlord cut the power to the basement, isn't the panel in the basement?
Sometimes the basement is segmented so you wouldn't be able to access the panel. The utilities come from the street and connect to the front corner of the house. If you watch the video, they go to the back of the house to get access to the unit. Take a closer look and you can see the doorway was created by sawcutting the foundation and the cinder block was added as a retaining wall for the stairs. The apartment itself is probably illegal because there is no secondary ingress/egress or window someone can crawl out of in case of a fire trapping you.
Pay your rent. If he doesn't like the apartment, then move.
Why does he have a cell phone antenna on his house?
Free to air TV antenna mounted on an old satellite dish mount.
All these people saying “if landlord
has to rely on tenants, he can’t afford the house”. That’s his business; dude needs to pay full rent or get out, it’s that simple.
So the problem is that residential housing is being used as businesses. Illegal and unsafe units and unreported taxes. So by house hacking, which is what the owner is doing, they are driving up the cost of houses because housing is being used as an illegal business and a piggy bank.
The government turns a blind eye to a lot of this because they don't have places for people to live. This drives the cost of houses up as it is making a lucrative business, albeit at the expense of MANY other people. The government claims they are putting money towards housing, I have seen nothing indicating improvements.
The guy lives in the basement because his landlord contributes to making housing so unaffordable, he has to live in a basement.
Sounds like you're defending these crook landlord .
@@jonmercado7037
No more than you are defending negligent tenants.
You can't get gas, food, shirts, for partial payment, why do so many people expect a landlord to accept partial payment? If the tenants boss said to the tenant "I can only pay half your paycheck" the tenant would not accept that!!!! I will never ever ever understand this discrepancy.
You must vaxxed
Yes you can. It's called a credit card, and you can default on that, but keep what you bought.
Your living space. Food and safety can't be compared to a shirt you fool.
This guy's paying 1600 for a illegal basement and somehow he's the bad guy?
I just found the slumlord people
Sounds like something a slum lord would say. That place should be no more than 1200 a month and that's still too much.
Even legal basement, there are lizard that they find loopholes in laws,then they get living for free and free utilities,
@@sniderscott you're mistaken about credit cards too.
The vendor is immediately paid in full when a credit card purchase occurs. It is the financial institution with whom the card holder has an agreement with that "lends" money to the card holder, not the seller.
Landlord Tenant Board should be renamed to TENANT BOARD. Tenants are allowed NOT to pay the rent, live for free, damage the property and leave without paying to the landlord. And LTB expect the landlords to absorb all the damages like all landlords have millions of dollars sitting under their As$.
What is happening at the LTB is a travesty. The long waittimes to get a hearing whilst tenant living free and committing other atrocities is something of the third-world.
This is one of the reasons rents continues to go up in this province. Renters will continue to suffer for this.
I have a tenant I'm currently trying to evict. Today made it 2 months since I applied to the LTB. He owes rents, I know he wouldn't pay. He would get evicted and I'll then take the unit off the market or convert it to a short term rental. In the end, the renter loses. Again, not my problem.
Both parties are in the wrong. Bad landlord, but a very bad tenant…You have to pay your bills on time! That’s your number 1 obligation.
Did they say he moved in in Feb and already stopped paying in March? This could have been preplanned or very bad financial management. But the landlord should not have cut off electricity. At least give tenant a chance.
If you can't afford the mortgage don't buy the house ... don't rely on a stranger in your basement 🤣
@@viewtube51 what about if you can't afford the rent don't move in
@@viewtube51 You ever have a mortgage? You have to prove you can carry the costs on your own to the bank. But from a landlord perspective this is a horrible tenant.
@@Johnny_Doe Yes... but regardless of proof, stuff happens. You may loose that job a few months after signing... etc 🤷♀️ dsnt count for to much.. you'd have to sale or beg your basement tenant... its a sad story either way.
The law do not care about these things. Don't matter how much we call and complain the law needs to step up on these things immediately
Sally Ann doesn't care. 🤷♂️
If Your PAYING YOUR LAWYER ONE MILLION 🇺🇸 DOLLARS PER YEAR ... DOES IT MATTER ⚖ 🇨🇦
The landlord is from Nigeria.
Dats why I don't rent basement it's always a problem with the landlord
The tenant is pure BS! he didn’t pay rent… And demanding to accommodate him!!!! Nobody will accept him with his arrogant attitude!!!! He wants to show to the world that he was the victim!!!!! He’s not!!! He is squatting there!!!!
He asked for a bit of leeway to not pay the full amount at once, he never said he wouldn't pay the rent eventually. We don't know this man's circumstances. Either way, the landlord doesn't have a right to come and shut off the electricity like they did, that's bs
You don’t pay rent for over a month and are surprised that your power is cut ? What a joke.
They don’t care what happens with a homeowner when they don’t pay one month to a bank for mortgage payment.
Snakes
Sorry, but I am with the landlord on this one. The guy moved into this suite and in month 2 he cannot pay the rent? Rent is due on the first of the month in full not in installments. We do not know when the mortgage is due and maybe the owner needs the rent to cover. Landlord is nipping this in the bud, if cannot make rent in full in 2nd month into lease agreement, it is obvious he will be on a continual basis.
Markham is full of such mess i mean home owners are using their residences like AirBnb most are against Markham by laws 🤦♀️
Except this story is about Mississauga. Do you understand English?
Those are evil and greedy landlords obviously....Looks like the landlord has an indian accent and doesn't even have the courage to give his side of the story , probably because he knows he has done many illegal things
Sophie- why are you judging anyone by his ethnicity?Do you even know the hardships the landlord must be going through by not receiving the rent payment & that house can be on mortgage? everyone has their own issues to deal with.
@@Cj-rq2qg …maybe the so-called landlord was never truly ready to own a house in a first place. I would never rely exclusively on rental income to get by…that’s just me though.
Everyone talking trash because it's a small-time landlord in this case. I hope you keep same energy when it's a corporation.
You think small-time landlords are mean, try waging war with apartment corps. Don't pay your rent to the corp/prop management and see what happens to you.
Y'all ignorant and stup!d for real.😂😂🤡
Many slumlords and many slum tenants.
There's a large smattering of truth to this....
Is this bad tenant or bad landlord?
Weird tenant, gets eviction notice, and tells media he wants to end lease. Nothing keeping him there except himself. Landlord cutting power is not good either
I swear, most landlords = 👺🤑
I feel bad about people that can’t pay rent because of some sort of hardship but I feel it’s truly unfair as well for homeowners to carry the burden of others because I can’t remember a time when the bank said it’s ok you don’t have to pay the mortgage this month or the tax man saying it as well just pay me when you have it. If governments want to continue this one side relationship they need to support the other side as well. Because on the flip what would people do if there was no place to rent at all, where would they go and what would they do? That’s the real reason why there is so few places to rent. Just Think.
Exactly…now this will squarely rest on the government shoulders. They are bringing in more people but not building enough houses. And the houses we do have, are not giving proper recourse for landlords to evict non paying tenants. At this case, it’s better to invest in the stock market than becoming a real estate investor.
Landlords are people like me or you but bank is a not a person but a system or a money making machine.
@@nolanmckain2061 what was your point please
How do you know that this man is qualified to say the the things you do to your house. This all down to trust on your builders with out paying a fortune to someone to say what he doesn't like. It's as simple as that.
Actually, the landlord can legally enter without notice in case of emergency. Looking at those extension cords, I'm curious how he blew the breaker... Here's some trivia for you! Did you know that landlords and real estate agents were never legally prevented from entering to tour a tenanted property in isolation for Covid while the rest of us were practically under house arrest for two years? It happened to me. Even the police who volunteered to defend my isolation didn't realize this was legal. Why would anyone think that is ok? If you don't believe me, it's in the FAQ on the LTB website. I was getting threats from the landlord's lawyer and everything, despite me being in daily contact with our hospital and health unit. Public Health Inspector doesn't make house calls to educate landlords, apparently. They told me to post my own signs, which all parties ignored. I had an agent barge in while I was in bed sick and there was no appointment! They all consistently insinuated I was making it up while pressuring me to anticipate when I would recover. They said that if I really had Covid, I would have had "official signs". (Thanks, Public Health...) Lawyer demanded "evidence" I had Covid, when I was not medically eligible for testing. Three weeks of stress running a DIY tenant advocacy from my deathbed significantly slowed my recovery. I come from real estate on both sides of my family and always viewed it as a decent profession but there is no oversight over what appears to be a bunch of disreputable pigs these days.
Someone may say immigrants help among each other but this is not always true like the bad women step on basement tenants or others looking for her men by their shameful and barbarous insulting mind and nasty attitudes not to mention the nasty men also with insulting mind and attitudes toward same native immigrants by my victimized life experiences!
Moral of the story - pay your bills.
If only it were that easy. Money doesn't just fall from the sky.
Sl.e people have it harder than other show some compassion thought everyone all of a sudden since covid cared about everyone
@@beausgaming7046 I wonder if the bank will show compassion to the landlord if he defaults on his mortgage
@@yvonnec2425 I wonder if the landlord deferred his mortgage payments while still collecting rent on an illegal apartment, and most likely not paying tax on the income. 👀
@@bolskify a deferred mortgage payment isn't the same as a missed rent. Don't be dense.
Landlord should go to jail.
Anyone who's been in his situation before knows the stress of financial hardship. A GoFundMe fundraiser to help this guy would be appreciated.
I’m good, I’m not going to donate for some deadbeat to pay his bills he can get a job like the rest of us
there are many people on the streets ready to stay like him on free money ..will you raise go fund me for all of them? good luck
@@siuuuuu6289 Agreed. We need to take care of ourselves instead of worrying about others. No one will take care of me for me. I've helped others out many times in the past and have never been paid back so I don't feel obligated to continue helping.
No it wouldn't be appreciated. At all.
😂
Squatting is a big problem. Should be illegal
Oh please , get TF out the man house you agree on $1600 a month an now you can’t pay so get out .
F’n Squatters
I swear, most landlords = 👹🤑
its a business, not a charity. Landlord got bills to pay
@@feig3959 Always paid our rent. But still got plenty of horror stories to share.
I really don't understand people , it's a business. Pay your rent. The landlord does not get a free pass from the bank if they don't pay their mortgage
@@yvonnec2425 Always paid our rent. Unfortunately still have a lot of horror stories to share! Being forced to pay $1600-2k for
@@yvonnec2425
Or the government if he/she doesn't pay the property tax.