{"id":60548,"date":"2020-05-08T14:48:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=60548"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:48:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:48:58","slug":"toronto-landlord-forced-to-refinance-condo-as-covid-19-stalls-eviction-of-lawyer-owing-16k-in-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/local\/gta\/toronto-landlord-forced-to-refinance-condo-as-covid-19-stalls-eviction-of-lawyer-owing-16k-in-rent\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto landlord forced to refinance condo as COVID-19 stalls eviction of lawyer owing $16K in rent"},"content":{"rendered":"
Danish Chagani was excited when the lawyer who lived down the hall from his Toronto condo wanted to rent his unit after Chagani\u00a0bought a house for his young family.<\/p>\n
But the first-time landlord says the feeling was short-lived \u2014 and about $16,500 in unpaid rent has left him strapped for cash to make his mortgage payments.<\/p>\n Within a few months of moving into the fully furnished downtown condo in November 2018, tenant Christopher Roper’s\u00a0cheques started to bounce and come in late, Chagani\u00a0says.<\/p>\n “It’s been a mess,” the landlord told CBC Toronto. “He looked like someone who wouldn’t have an issue paying his rent.”<\/p>\n Chagani argues his situation, and that of some of Roper’s previous landlords, illustrates how a tenant who knows the system can take advantage of the lengthy process at the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) to delay eviction, and live rent-free.<\/p>\n And now there’s no end in sight for the soon-to-be father of two. His LTB eviction proceeding against Roper \u2014 like most evictions across Ontario \u2014 has been\u00a0suspended indefinitely due to the COVID-19\u00a0pandemic.<\/p>\n