I would be wary before saying the backlog on the Landlord and Tenant Board gives tenants leverage. I've had friends who have been evicted for BS reasons, or were stuck having paid deposits on moldy places because the board can't enforce the rights that tenants have. The situation really isn't inherently good or bad for either party.
This guy is not a decent man to paint all landlords with the same brush and encouraging people to not pay funds that they are contractually obligated to pay. In the early 2000s when I bought my first house, I relied on income from renting my basement. I went on a 4 day vacation and returned to a new tenant who sublet from my previous guy. Problem is that he was a criminal dealing cocaine and stolen goods. Police would not do anything (even though they were watching him and my house every other night) and referred me to the rental tribunal. Luckily there were no delays in processing so it was easy to evict the guy once he was behind in rent. Had the delays been there that exist now, I would have been stuck with a genuine criminal, doing criminal acts in my basement for months and would have lost my house. Geordie Dent would have applauded the guy, yet I am the law abiding citizen paying taxes and productive member of society. There are bad landlords and bad tenants, and the tribunal is the only body to settle disputes. If they can't do it in a timely manner, than laws protecting both sides are not being served justly. It's not a one side or the other, it's about being fair to our fellow people.
The problem is that renting properties is a business and they do not care about evicting people to make more profit. it is profit over people. When a hard worker can not afford rent, something is terrible wrong with society. The government definitley need to intervene and regulate this mess.
I heard a rumour that they are going to start investigating some cash for keys cases as criminal extortion after all of the tenant review board cases start catching up. All these criminal renters who decided to not pay and ask for cash for keys might face criminal charges. Ironic for when they try to rent and have a police report and can’t rent. Or they can’t get a job because of a criminal extortion charge.
There's great landlords and the worst slumlords, along with decent tenants to bum trash...It's not a simple situation. I don't like slumlords with multiple properties and I don't like trash who think they can just coast off of others. Hopefully the worst of both groups find each other.
"Opening the caviar and popping the champagne" does NOT apply to all landlords. Your bias is blinding. Investment risk? Criminals - be they landlords or tenants - should not be enabled and protected.
Landlords buy up all the property which makes people have to rent. Then they use the rent money to pay off the house, so the landlord leeches off the tenant.
@@oliviahuang7276 what will happen is there will be hundreds of thousands more homes available on the "market", which will reduce the prices, which will make them affordable for renters to buy, instead of being stuck paying someone else's mortgage. Sounds great!!
@@sachamm a lot of those so-called "mom and pop" landlords are afflicted by greed too. Many if not all are just as bad as the big REITs and nameless numbered companies - and are often behind those nameless numbered companies. They can find something more productive to "invest" in.
@@Griff1984 thank you for acknowledging you have no relevant experience as to what it's like to live in Toronto where corporate landlords and many mom and pop landlords are each gorging at the trough at the expense of renters of all stripes. Do you even know what rent controls we do and do not have compared to you, or would you like to offer more pointless banter to prove your ignorance on the matter?
@@adam8mith This is my last response to you. In BC there is rent control and as for Ontario I don't care cause I don't own a property there. My reaction to your initial comment was you calling me 'ignorantly oblivious', but hey go on about rental control and gouging. It's the easy target. So let me be very clear I owe one rental property with two suites. The basement tenant has lived their longer than I have owed (15+ years) the home and I raised his rent from 600 to 650 when I first bought the home. The tenant still pays 650 to this day. After 4 years of living in the main upstairs suite I rented it out. I have always had tenants stay 6+ months, and never have evicted anyone. I only collect market rental value when the tenants leave. I've been doing this 10+ years so yes I sort of get it. This 3 minute clip, heavily skewed towards the tenant, is one side of the argument and you agree, that's fine. We aren't all popping champagne though. How about asking what your municipal, provincial and federal governments are doing for you? Governments of all stripes and levels have failed on this file. Don't expect you to respond or necessarily want you to. Have a nice day.
Sickening. This man is sickeningly ungrateful. He cant afford the roof over his head well try owning the home and see how much tougher it gets. Many tenants are tenants due to a lousy credit score. Mismanaged loans and credit cards. Many not ALL. So now this guy thinks the owners who have managed their debt responsibly and sacrificed when they were young should be punished. Such a lowlife. I never liked being a renter so we moved to rural suburbia to afford our first home. Yea, sometimes you gotta move. It’s called sacrifice and should never be punished.
Absolutely. Let’s say I have a home and I am paying the mortgage, and I have to move some other place because of a job (which is quite normal), what am I supposed to do with my home if I can’t put it on rent because of maniacs like him? Just “suck it up” and pay mortgage and rent and starve
You are so completely out of touch it would be funny were it not such a sad issue. You know nothing of the demographics of the average tenant, you're only exposing your gross ignorance. Dent is not at all advocating for punishing anyone, you missed the point completely. The point is that landlords have all kinds of power to drain tenants, but tenants also have power and should not be hesitant to use it.
@@denelson83"If your place is covered by the Residential Tenancies Act, it is against the law for a landlord to evict you or change your locks without an order from the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB). Even with an order, only the Sheriff is allowed to physically evict you."
@@danarchist74 I don't know, but I'm about to borrow $1 million to build a house on my property. What do you think, should I do the right thing according to you and just keep it all for myself or should I go with my original plan and become a leech by building a duplex or triplex?
No matter how the guy in the glasses tries to sugar coat it, tenants who won't move out after not paying rent are doing something that is disgusting, loathsome, deplorable, and 100% morally wrong. Landlords are mostly nice people who offer tenants nice deals to live in their home for a price. If the tenants think the rent is too high, then they shouldn't accept the deal in the first place. Abusing the system and causing their landlords all this undue hardship? I cannot emphasize enough how wrong I think that is.
The interviewer questioned the tenant advocate but not the landlords who may get $100000 more in their sale without tenants or the extra rent of 2024. Not enough fair journalism but a lot of Fox News 1010 radio Conservatives slanted news.
Why the F would they need to interview landlords because they might make money on their investment? Last I checked, Canada was still a free market capitalist country.
I came to Canada alone with only $1000. I worked 2 jobs and slept for 4 hours everyday. I was paid the minimum wage. I only buy discounted food and cheap clothes, but I saved down payment and bought a condo to rent out. I asked for lower than market rent. If I get $100000 more when I sell the condo, it's the compensation of all the sufferings I went through to get my property. I deserve it!!!!!!!! I don't believe something like Cash for key can happen in Canada!! I'm appalled!! I came from a communism country where hundreds of thousands of rich people were killed by the communists and their properties were taken by the communists. I escaped that cruel regime and came to Canada because I believed Canada was a safe and civilized country, but now I doubt it. I'm afraid I can't protect my hard earned property. It's horrific!!! Am I in Canada?!!
If landlords are leeching how do you suggest things work. We all stop renting places but where will you live? We stop buying? So yourself will never buy or rent? I have lived in many countries but this the silliest story ive heard so far.
What a dickheadedly irrelevant ad hominem. You unfairly discriminate based on his body (the comparison is not apt) and then suggest his landlord illegally discriminate against him too.
While I don't like this fellows' opinion, he is right in some ways. There are things that helped to cause this shortage of rental units. After the housing bubble burst in '08 there were a couple of significant law changes shortly after. The intent was to stop banks from lending to marginal potential homeowners so that borrowers couldn't get in "over their head" on home loans. The result imo, is the law went too far and prevented a lot of good people from buying. When fewer people can buy then more people must rent. Shortage drives up prices. Blame lawmakers if you don't like it. Where I disagree with this fellow is the image (imo) he presents of a LL sitting in a chair counting his windfall profit. Owner costs of prop taxes, insurance, parts for repairs and labor repairs have all been up up up. Utilities up too, for owners that pay that. Increased rents does not always mean a windfall of profit.
You said "Owner costs of prop taxes, insurance, parts for repairs and labor repairs have all been up up up. Utilities up too, for owners that pay that." ... Except owners don't pay for any of that - the tenants do.
I guess anyone who voluntarily enters into a contract with The Breach better be careful, since they are encouraging others to violate the terms of their contracts.
Tenants should form co-op to buy land and properties together, which makes everyone in the co-op shareholders who are both landlords and tenants.
Good luck with that.
Does he deal with extortion and criminal fraud ? Ya.
Why don’t they get crumbs from the bank. ? Or Apple. McDonald’s.
I would be wary before saying the backlog on the Landlord and Tenant Board gives tenants leverage. I've had friends who have been evicted for BS reasons, or were stuck having paid deposits on moldy places because the board can't enforce the rights that tenants have. The situation really isn't inherently good or bad for either party.
Yeah the extortionist tenants are just helping the criminal landlords. Need to crack down on the bad people on both sides faster.
tenants should just purchase their own property
Your friends were most likely full of shit. Lying to you.
This guy is not a decent man to paint all landlords with the same brush and encouraging people to not pay funds that they are contractually obligated to pay. In the early 2000s when I bought my first house, I relied on income from renting my basement. I went on a 4 day vacation and returned to a new tenant who sublet from my previous guy. Problem is that he was a criminal dealing cocaine and stolen goods. Police would not do anything (even though they were watching him and my house every other night) and referred me to the rental tribunal. Luckily there were no delays in processing so it was easy to evict the guy once he was behind in rent. Had the delays been there that exist now, I would have been stuck with a genuine criminal, doing criminal acts in my basement for months and would have lost my house. Geordie Dent would have applauded the guy, yet I am the law abiding citizen paying taxes and productive member of society.
There are bad landlords and bad tenants, and the tribunal is the only body to settle disputes. If they can't do it in a timely manner, than laws protecting both sides are not being served justly. It's not a one side or the other, it's about being fair to our fellow people.
The problem is that renting properties is a business and they do not care about evicting people to make more profit. it is profit over people. When a hard worker can not afford rent, something is terrible wrong with society. The government definitley need to intervene and regulate this mess.
just purchase
I just want to see the full interview instead of this cut up bullshit but I cannot find it😢
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I heard a rumour that they are going to start investigating some cash for keys cases as criminal extortion after all of the tenant review board cases start catching up. All these criminal renters who decided to not pay and ask for cash for keys might face criminal charges. Ironic for when they try to rent and have a police report and can’t rent. Or they can’t get a job because of a criminal extortion charge.
Also this dent dude is going to face charges most likely
where did you hear this?
@@Thomas-su2vk I almost don’t want to say so they can’t shut it down. But it is coming
There's great landlords and the worst slumlords, along with decent tenants to bum trash...It's not a simple situation. I don't like slumlords with multiple properties and I don't like trash who think they can just coast off of others. Hopefully the worst of both groups find each other.
"Opening the caviar and popping the champagne" does NOT apply to all landlords. Your bias is blinding. Investment risk? Criminals - be they landlords or tenants - should not be enabled and protected.
tenant mentality has no logic
what is this video implying?
That renters are extorting landlords? I haven't heard of this happening.
Links to more information please!
Look for links in Canada
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Landlords buy up all the property which makes people have to rent. Then they use the rent money to pay off the house, so the landlord leeches off the tenant.
get a job
@@misanthropicoptimist get a clue. And a life.
Your ire is misdirected. You should be shouting at NIMBYs who don't want their car-dependant sprawl ruined by livable cities.
Lesson: Don't buy any property to rent! See what will happen If nobody buys property to rent!
@@oliviahuang7276 what will happen is there will be hundreds of thousands more homes available on the "market", which will reduce the prices, which will make them affordable for renters to buy, instead of being stuck paying someone else's mortgage. Sounds great!!
So im curious what geordies thoughts are on tenants not paying rent and using cash for keys then?
He said in the interview: have at it!
Hes telling it like its is not sorry if slumlords are offended
What about so-called "mom and pop" landlords? Do you care about normal people, or have you lost the plot as this guy in the video has?
GTFO, this isn't happening to slumlords.
@@sachamm Likley not, squatters and scam artists don't care.
@@sachamm a lot of those so-called "mom and pop" landlords are afflicted by greed too. Many if not all are just as bad as the big REITs and nameless numbered companies - and are often behind those nameless numbered companies. They can find something more productive to "invest" in.
This guy should be on all landlord’s blacklist
No doubt he is, but equally likely that he has all sorts of scams to get around that as well.
Watch the video why landlords are parasites
So valid and fair criticism in an expression of free speech should get one illegally discriminated against? Facist much?
So you're against free speech and want to cancel someone for standing up for their rights?
This guy is absolutely bonkers.
Psycho
Clearly you are ignorantly oblivious of the reality on the ground Dent has been dealing with closely for over a decade.
@@adamsmith21stc I live in BC bud and am a mom and pop landlord so yah I know what I talking about. Leave your Central Canadian attitude at the door.
@@Griff1984 thank you for acknowledging you have no relevant experience as to what it's like to live in Toronto where corporate landlords and many mom and pop landlords are each gorging at the trough at the expense of renters of all stripes. Do you even know what rent controls we do and do not have compared to you, or would you like to offer more pointless banter to prove your ignorance on the matter?
@@adam8mith This is my last response to you. In BC there is rent control and as for Ontario I don't care cause I don't own a property there. My reaction to your initial comment was you calling me 'ignorantly oblivious', but hey go on about rental control and gouging. It's the easy target.
So let me be very clear I owe one rental property with two suites. The basement tenant has lived their longer than I have owed (15+ years) the home and I raised his rent from 600 to 650 when I first bought the home. The tenant still pays 650 to this day. After 4 years of living in the main upstairs suite I rented it out. I have always had tenants stay 6+ months, and never have evicted anyone. I only collect market rental value when the tenants leave. I've been doing this 10+ years so yes I sort of get it.
This 3 minute clip, heavily skewed towards the tenant, is one side of the argument and you agree, that's fine. We aren't all popping champagne though. How about asking what your municipal, provincial and federal governments are doing for you? Governments of all stripes and levels have failed on this file.
Don't expect you to respond or necessarily want you to. Have a nice day.
Sickening. This man is sickeningly ungrateful. He cant afford the roof over his head well try owning the home and see how much tougher it gets. Many tenants are tenants due to a lousy credit score. Mismanaged loans and credit cards. Many not ALL. So now this guy thinks the owners who have managed their debt responsibly and sacrificed when they were young should be punished. Such a lowlife. I never liked being a renter so we moved to rural suburbia to afford our first home. Yea, sometimes you gotta move. It’s called sacrifice and should never be punished.
Most landlords are landlords because they were born with a silver spoon up their ass. They didn’t get where they are without help.
Absolutely. Let’s say I have a home and I am paying the mortgage, and I have to move some other place because of a job (which is quite normal), what am I supposed to do with my home if I can’t put it on rent because of maniacs like him? Just “suck it up” and pay mortgage and rent and starve
Shut up
great point!
You are so completely out of touch it would be funny were it not such a sad issue. You know nothing of the demographics of the average tenant, you're only exposing your gross ignorance. Dent is not at all advocating for punishing anyone, you missed the point completely. The point is that landlords have all kinds of power to drain tenants, but tenants also have power and should not be hesitant to use it.
"Cash for keys" is irrelevant when the landlord can simply change the lock on the door.
Any landlord that did that would likely find themselves in jail.
@@sachamm Nope, sorry. That is a landlord's right.
@@denelson83"If your place is covered by the Residential Tenancies Act, it is against the law for a landlord to evict you or change your locks without an order from the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB). Even with an order, only the Sheriff is allowed to physically evict you."
@@denelson83lol ya, nope. You are wrong.
Illegal in most places
It's landleechs, not landlords. We use the proper nomenclature here @The Breach
That's right. If I have some extra room and don't rent it out, I'm a good guy. But if I choose to rent it out, I'm a leech. Makes perfect sense.
@@sachamm how many times does that happen? 🤔
@@danarchist74 I don't know, but I'm about to borrow $1 million to build a house on my property. What do you think, should I do the right thing according to you and just keep it all for myself or should I go with my original plan and become a leech by building a duplex or triplex?
No matter how the guy in the glasses tries to sugar coat it, tenants who won't move out after not paying rent are doing something that is disgusting, loathsome, deplorable, and 100% morally wrong. Landlords are mostly nice people who offer tenants nice deals to live in their home for a price. If the tenants think the rent is too high, then they shouldn't accept the deal in the first place. Abusing the system and causing their landlords all this undue hardship? I cannot emphasize enough how wrong I think that is.
The interviewer questioned the tenant advocate but not the landlords who may get $100000 more in their sale without tenants or the extra rent of 2024.
Not enough fair journalism but a lot of Fox News 1010 radio Conservatives slanted news.
Why the F would they need to interview landlords because they might make money on their investment? Last I checked, Canada was still a free market capitalist country.
I came to Canada alone with only $1000. I worked 2 jobs and slept for 4 hours everyday. I was paid the minimum wage. I only buy discounted food and cheap clothes, but I saved down payment and bought a condo to rent out. I asked for lower than market rent. If I get $100000 more when I sell the condo, it's the compensation of all the sufferings I went through to get my property. I deserve it!!!!!!!! I don't believe something like Cash for key can happen in Canada!! I'm appalled!! I came from a communism country where hundreds of thousands of rich people were killed by the communists and their properties were taken by the communists. I escaped that cruel regime and came to Canada because I believed Canada was a safe and civilized country, but now I doubt it. I'm afraid I can't protect my hard earned property. It's horrific!!! Am I in Canada?!!
If landlords are leeching how do you suggest things work. We all stop renting places but where will you live? We stop buying? So yourself will never buy or rent? I have lived in many countries but this the silliest story ive heard so far.
Hopefully the next tike comic book guy applies for rent his landlord does a Google search.
What a dickheadedly irrelevant ad hominem. You unfairly discriminate based on his body (the comparison is not apt) and then suggest his landlord illegally discriminate against him too.
While I don't like this fellows' opinion, he is right in some ways.
There are things that helped to cause this shortage of rental units. After the housing bubble burst in '08 there were a couple of significant law changes shortly after. The intent was to stop banks from lending to marginal potential homeowners so that borrowers couldn't get in "over their head" on home loans. The result imo, is the law went too far and prevented a lot of good people from buying. When fewer people can buy then more people must rent. Shortage drives up prices. Blame lawmakers if you don't like it.
Where I disagree with this fellow is the image (imo) he presents of a LL sitting in a chair counting his windfall profit. Owner costs of prop taxes, insurance, parts for repairs and labor repairs have all been up up up. Utilities up too, for owners that pay that. Increased rents does not always mean a windfall of profit.
You said "Owner costs of prop taxes, insurance, parts for repairs and labor repairs have all been up up up. Utilities up too, for owners that pay that." ... Except owners don't pay for any of that - the tenants do.
@@lynb1022 Yes, thanks for confirming my statement. That is one of the things that have caused higher rents., in addition to unit shortages.
I guess anyone who voluntarily enters into a contract with The Breach better be careful, since they are encouraging others to violate the terms of their contracts.
Who said anything about violating any contract? This whole clip was about EXERCISING RIGHTS, not violating contracts or reneging on rent.