quick humourous landlord update
This is too funny to pass up. Our house just got a visit from Stefano, the fine italian gentleman from Vancouver Eviction Services who’s been hired by our landlord. He dutifully informed us that our landlord is going to claim that the leaseholder’s signature is forged on our documents. Haha, the poor desparate losers.
we had to get a form signed by the leaseholder (our former roommate, who incidentally just moved out) saying that we could act as his agent in the tribunal. I guess he doubts that we really got such a signature, and now is basing his entire case on this supposed forgery. it seems kinda dumb to me, unless he really really believes it, because we can just get the former roommate to prove it again through some other manner…call him on the phone or whatever (which is what we’ll do if they really want it).
we also have the proof of my financial relationship with the former landlord too (in the form of copies of cheques that i paid to him for rent), so i don’t really know where this guy is going with this stuff. he’s screwed.
anyway, still trying to figure out when to have our victory party…maybe next weekend or something…sept 17th maybe? stay tuned. oh, and more upcoming events:
- VeloMutation unveiling: September 25th at 7pm…come see the crazy cycle art stuff and enjoy the accompanying party. (maybe someone can post a comment with some more details? i can’t find it on the web). rumoured exhibits: a pedal-powered tank (yes, with real tractor treads), a pedal-powered bathtub, and much more.
- Take Back the Night is also the 25th, for any women out there interested in protesting violence against women.
- also, Electric Moon Bananas bike ride, from maybe 10 or 11pm onward, on september 25th (the saturday closest to the full moon)
- Oct. 1st: party to celebrate Ben (and maybe Ryan?) arriving home from the cross-canada bike trip. details TBA
- Oct. 3rd: Joey Only’s CD Release party, at the afro-canadian restaurant on cambie and hastings at 7:30pm ($5, no one turned away for lack of funds). Joey’s excellent new CD is called “Radical Folk of the Great North”, and i think his new band is debuting that night too. special guests: the Flying Folk Army (the famous vancouver folk band). This is also the 37th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s death, i believe. Gotta pay homage to the greats while we cheer on the up-and-coming ;)
Ride hard, ride free….and this machine kills fascists
February 1st, 2006 at 21:59 pm
I’m going through my own stuff with Stephano. 12 years here. Landlord lose at the arbitration as a man of bad faith (dishonest) on first eviction notice.Hires Stephano. Stef brings hired trowtruckdriver to make alot of noise and bounce up and down on my bumper. Then the poor landlord has to run in and staple the 2nd notice. . Hires Stephano.Unbelievable. I feel sorry for my poor landlord, all the money he’s giving Steffie, claiming this might work, this might work, next we’ll try this. We ‘ll harass him till he feels so guilty….Third notice a woman says she has an eviction notice. I claim,I’m full up. I already have two. This is a different matter she complains. I say get lost or I call the police. She says the landlord is with her. I say I’m calling the police. I do.for the 3rd or fourth or something time. Make sure you say his name right or you will be corrected.
February 1st, 2006 at 22:11 pm
So now I have 3 notices. Well done Stefano. How much did you make. Phone Tim Louis, claim you have a lawyer, Stef kinda steps back and gives the landlord his final bill. Now we go to arb for the second time Unbelievable? Oh yah and I’m the resident volunteer janitor. Are we lacking in gratitude somewhere?!
March 4th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
you’re a looser.
thank god i discriminate.
July 30th, 2007 at 07:15 am
Evicted West 13th tenants frustrated by bureaucracy
Cheryl Rossi, Vancouver Courier
Published: Friday, July 20, 2007
When Bhuvinder Vaid was told he had to move out of his West 13th Avenue apartment because it was slated for renovations, he and his brother started looking for a new place.
But when Lori O’Donohue, the mother of one of the tenants in the 11-unit building, asked questions about the renovation permits they were told allowed the evictions, the residents learned things weren’t as they seemed.
The June 28 eviction notice served by Stephano Muzzatti, an agent for Point Properties Ltd., which took possession of the building on the same date, stated, “The landlord will be performing extensive renovations to the envelope, common areas and all suites in the building.” But after spending hours at city hall, O’Donohue and the tenants learned city officials only had one permit–for electrical work–on their books. Carlene Robbins, manager of the city’s property use inspection branch, told the tenants the work required under the electrical permit would not require the building to be vacated. The tenants had her put that statement in writing.
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Font: ****Under the province’s Residential Tenancy Act, a landlord who has all of the necessary permits and approvals required by law can evict a tenant if their eviction is necessary to renovate or repair the unit.
Since the landlord didn’t have the permits, the tenants filed a joint arbitration with the Residential Tenancy Office in Burnaby. Vaid said they had a “hell of time” getting their papers filed.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, they were told by the office’s staff there was a mistake in their documents. He said when they returned Thursday with basically the same documents, a manager told them they were correct. The letter from Robbins wasn’t considered an acceptable document for the arbitration until they protested.
Trying to serve the papers to the new landlord was also frustrating because the tenants didn’t know his name. All communication went through Muzzatti, who, Vaid said, doesn’t return calls. Eventually, they served the papers to Muzzatti. A subsequent title search at city hall and cross checking showed Peter Tsiandoulas as the owner of Point Properties.
Muzzatti contended the previous landlord for 1015 West 13th Ave. let the building fall into disrepair. “He was a guy willing to have East Vancouver rents on the West Side because then the tenants don’t bug him to fix things,” Muzzatti said, adding the new landlord simply wants to fix the building.
Vaid agreed the building needs work, but said the previous landlord had paid for improvements to the roof drainage that had gotten rid of a bad smell. But the smell returned when, tenants say, the new landlord had the vent sealed with cement. Vaid, a graduate student, has lived in the building for nearly two years. He and his brother Kuljeet pay $750 a month for a 1,000-square-foot, two bedroom apartment.
Kuljeet phoned their NDP MLA Gregor Robertson on Saturday. On Monday, Robertson’s assistant told them that evicting tenants on the premise of completing extensive renovations, making only surface changes and jacking up the rent is becoming more common among landlords in Vancouver. On Wednesday, the Vaid brothers held a press conference in their living room.
Vaid believes if they get a fair hearing, they will be able to stay. “If the landlord and his agent are reasonable people, I’m sure we could come to some type of accommodation. If it means renovations on a smaller scale or an increase in rent, we’re open to discussing all those things,” Vaid said.
The arbitration date is Aug. 20. The eviction date is Aug. 31.
November 6th, 2007 at 21:46 pm
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February 7th, 2008 at 11:20 am
So when is that victory party.
February 8th, 2008 at 00:38 am
heh…a bit late.
the whole landlord saga went on for like 8 months after this post, but it’s all long ago now.
i’m open to party suggestions though ;)
August 14th, 2008 at 18:04 pm
Hi…
We are putting a complain against Peter T., by any chance do you have his address so we can include it in the complaint??
Let me know
Thank you