Try and picture it. Your ceiling collapses as you lye in bed, all due to the fact that there is a huge hole in the roof that you can see outside through. Your bathroom plumbing, including the toilet with hot water in it, the cold water tap on the old fashioned sink leaking hot water, the tub that has been cheaply fixed with rubber washers. Is all shot, the slumlord calls everyday for months on end to ask if its still leaking never to send a real plumber up and fix it. The only thing you see close to a plumber is an electrician that couldnt fix a garden hose. Only in the end to have a massive leak that flood out the apartment below, the basement and the electrical. It is improperly dried out and the onset of dangerous mold will soon be present. The sink in the bathroom has to be ripped out. It is replaced with a pile of garbage that was ripped out of someone Else's apartment because it was no good. In the midst of all of this the entire apartment buildings water supply is shut off for 2 days straight. Your apartment is a mess because you havent had any water to do laundry or dishes with. So you get a call from the slumlord. She informs you there will be a viewing of your apartment in a half an hour. You call her back and exercise your wrights as a tenant to not allow a viewing of the apartment for 24 hours, because of its appearance. She blows up and tells you she is coming up regardless she has the keys and does not care what you think. She states it is her building and you are to leave the satellite dish you paid for behind or her boyfriend will be talking to you. So you politely tell her that you are upset about the viewing and try and explain to her that its because of the water being shut off for 2 days. Not only that but the fact that you work full time and a shower is a common part of humane everyday life. So they barge in and show the apartment in its state. Meanwhile yelling and hollering at you and calling you down to the lowest the entire time. No thanks for the new fossit or deadbolts (3) that my father and I installed free of charge. We painted the living room a very nice color and it looks amazing, the people viewing it mention that as well. No thanks for that and certainly no money for it as well. So the viewing ends the so called boyfriend plumber shows back up. She tells him to come in and pay me a visit. He tells me I have 24 hours to get out. I calmly reply that I have until the end of the month because I am fully paid up until that time. I also mention the fact that I need 24 hour notice for a viewing and 7 days notice for a so called trades person to fix anything In the apartment. They both say its not true and continue to act like children in a grade two playground. In all of my time I have never encountered such moronic and uneducated building owners. So you finally ask them to leave and they do once the harassment is over with. The RCMP show up and I get the rentlesmen on the phone with him. They both confirm that I am in the right and that I am to be notified 24 hours in advance. the officer said we have a harassment case, illegal entry into a tenants apartment, assault. That is just what I could charge them with from the RCMP. As far as the retalsmen go. I can charge: illegal entry, not registering a damage deposit with the renatlsmen. I dont want to mention any names at this point because I may be taking the case to court. Also deformation of character is a concern of mine.
