Boo Hoo, why can't I raise rents however I like

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/landlord-tenant-cash-for-keys-1.7050393

Half a story, told from the 1% perspective, is a trope with the CEEB these days. A manufactured crisis to elicit a singular response. Pity the poor land owner, being held hostage by the big bad tenant. Boo fucking hoo.

Anyone ever had their accommodations "renovicted" or been left idle for a year so the rapacious land owner could jack the rent up? I have and it fucking sucks.

I guess when the system works in favour of the land owners, it's all OK and just a bunch of whinging peasants. Coverage of renovictions? Puh-shaw!!!

So cry me a river, CEEB, your shilling for the land owners rings pretty hollow here.

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WhimsicalSofa@lemmynsfw.com · 15 pts · 2y

Oh no, they want to buy the tenant out of a legal contract and the tenant asks for more than the landlord wants to pay! A purely voluntary agreement doesn’t have terms they like!

These fuckers love a contract when they can unilaterally dictate terms but let the other party have bargaining power, or the right to say “no,” and now it’s unfair. Fuck them.

BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y

The video is just so tone deaf. Only at the VERY END do they try to bring it back to sanity. So gross.