Comments on: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Canada – Update For Landlords and Tenants

By: Quinn Harris

Quinn Harris — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 17:12:28 +0000

Thank you for sharing this COVID-19 update for landlords and tenants here. I appreciate your help here, and I hope that you’ll continue to share more updates in the future. Any kind of update about housing will do.

By: Baluvary

Baluvary — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 01:57:41 +0000

Thanks a lot

By: Steph

Steph — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:53:32 +0000

My roommate left and my landlord wants to bring in another tenant to the basement apartment, is he allowed to do that during this time?

By: Ireneo Abarca

Ireneo Abarca — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:50:18 +0000

Hello,
My is Ireneo Abarca, 70 years old. I live in Montreal,Quebec. I am a tenant of 4 1/2 apartment. I am paying 848.00 a month, I receive less than 900$ for my pension a month. My wife also live with me and receiving a minimum wage a month. She lost her job, and received EI for 2 weeks and she got back to her job again because her boss told her to do so. There is a risk for her life now because of her exposition to the virus. She needs to stay home like me. Because of the COVID 19, I are seeking for the government’s financial aid to help me pay for the rent. Maybe in one month or two months we will run out out financial to support our daily expenses. I buy my drugs prescription and other bills. The government has no program to help tenants here nb Quebec. Please help me. thank you very much.

By: Cidalia resendes

Cidalia resendes — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 07:38:34 +0000

I have a concern that our landlord is doing nothing to keep the common areas in the build clean…the only thing that has been done is signs have been put up as people keep coming and going from our building. My now over 70 mom who I cant get to stop cleaning it as the landlord will not. I worry she is going to fall ill. There is no hand sanitizer anywhere in our halls and the cleaning is falling to the people who live here. What do I need to do?

By: Anthony Little

Anthony Little — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:04:25 +0000

So, we have a tenant that has people (high school kids) that come and go all the time, we have reminded them about this pandemic and suggested to the mother that we would prefer for the safety of all other tenants that they do not continue allowing people to visit. We had this talk again last night, and it wasn’t taken lightly. The whole world is told to isolate! What can we do as landlords to stop these visits? what legal rights do we have as landlord and they as tenant..

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:20:59 +0000

I’m in Québec. My landlord sent me a link to this site but it seems to be about the law in BC.

Is there anything for the rest of us, that is those who live (and rent) in Québec?

By: Camila

Camila — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 01:00:46 +0000

Great article. Thanks for sharing!
I rent a place and my landlord requests payments in cash. Are there any exceptions to the rule during the COVID-19 period?

Thanks,

By: Gary Chamberlain

Gary Chamberlain — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:37:44 +0000

If the tenant can’t or refuses to pay rent, will the BC government pay the rent to the landlord.
If the tenant cannot be evicted and doesn’t have funds to pay rent, what is the Landlord to do?

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 22:23:46 +0000

Where is the assistance for building owners and landlords whose only income is from the rent that tenants pay? If all of my tenants cannot pay rent and we are not allowed to file for an eviction, this could potentially go on for months during this COVID-19 crisis.
What resources are the government putting out there for people like me? This is my only source of income and I do not qualify for other forms of relief offered.How can I possibly recuperate these costs not to mention at the end of this ban of evictions, there will be a flood of hearings at the LTB that could take over a year to process. The non-paying tenants could simply vacate at that time without paying. Where is the relief for us?