oh boy....
My lease is up on June 1st. My landlord had offered me to go on a month to month lease after June and I was planning to do that for another month so that the kids could finish school. Then after that? I was thinking of moving away from my present city.
But then my landlord messed that all up. He called me Monday night and told me that he changed his mind about month to month. He wants to list the house for sale again.
I have 17 days to find a new place to live.
posted by Safa at 8:54 PM
6 Comments:
I'm literally holding my breath....mentally calculating which friends could take one of the kids.....oh jeez......my panic button has been pushed....
8:58 PM
wow that landlord is nuts!!! Not fair!!! he could at east wait for your kids to finish school!!!
2:08 AM
Salam Safa,
Your landlord does not have the right to kick you in 17 days. Even if the lease is up, and he was not planning to renew it, he has to give you a notice of termination that allows you plenty of time to look for another house.
If he wants to sell the apartment, it's still going to take time to sell it so it should be no problem for him to give you at least one month.
Please contact the tenant's board in Ontario so you can get information about your rights... sadly too many landlords abuse the fact that tenants don't know what their rights are.
Here's the link: http://www.ltb.gov.on.ca/
9:29 AM
Salam Safa,
I just checked in the brochure and this is what it says:
The end of a lease does not mean a tenant has to move out. A new lease can be made or the landlord and tenant can agree to renew the lease for another fixed term period.
If a new agreement is not reached, the tenant still has the right to stay:
* as a monthly tenant, if they paid their rent by the month in the expired lease, or
* as a weekly tenant, if they paid their rent by the week in the expired lease.
Where the tenant stays on as a monthly or weekly tenant, all the rules of the former lease will still apply to the landlord and tenant. But the landlord can increase the rent each year by the amount allowed under the Act.
When your lease is up, it's not considered "up". It's considered as "renewing month by month". The first principle that applies is that tenants have a "universal right of occupancy" so landlords cannot kick the tenants out just because they feel like it, even if they don't have a written agreement.
In the case of the landlord, he actually does not have a reason to kick you out, because the reasons would be:
a. Sale of the building: for this reason to exist, he needs have already entered a sale agreement with a buyer.
b. He wants to use it for himself: he'd have to prove that.
Even if we're nice and we assume he already has a right to evict you, according to the law he has to give you a notice of termination at least 60 days before the date he want you out.
So... do not get bullied by a landlord and don't go crazy trying to find a house in 60 days. That's why we have laws.... to protect people!
:)
9:43 AM
Did you get anything in writing about the month-to-month thing? It's still a verbal contract. He needs to give you some kind of written notice, and more than 17 days. Don't let him push you around.
9:51 AM
Ditto on the 60 days. . .he CANNOT expect you to leave in less than 3 weeks. Verbal contracts are binding too!
10:06 AM
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