From the CBC News the plights of Solo Landlords in Ontario
“Some landlords in Ontario are becoming homeless — a situation legal experts say they’ve never seen happen before the COVID-19 pandemic, and they blame a “broken” tribunal system with significant delays to obtain eviction orders.
Franchesca Ranger, a small business owner in Ottawa, found herself homeless during the pandemic after selling her marital home due to a divorce. She decided to move into her rental unit, a townhouse in Barrhaven, and gave her tenant a 75-day termination notice with a move-out date of Aug. 31, 2020.
She says her tenant of four years refused to leave, stopped paying rent, and she was left to pay thousands a month in mortgage, property taxes, bills, and storage for her belongings — all while running a small restaurant that was hit hard by lockdowns and pandemic restrictions. (…)”
Continued on CBC website
