25 september 2024.

My family won the case against my landlord.

We received the verdict by mail around middle

of October.

Our apartment is still in shambles.

Landlord have the obligation to pay professionals to repair the apartment

and pay us a 500$ fine.

And I mean by this, he literally went back to Mexico to relax and

drink a margarita. Without doing anything.

Spineless freak.

7 out of 11 occupants of the block we live in

move out this july. 4 apartments are not

registered in the official adresses system.

Meaning the landlord get away with taxes,

and get literally full money of the rent for

himself.

We brought this up in the case, judge didn't

bat an eye. We paid around 2500$ to win

the case and got 500$ and a 10% rent reduction

for the former payments.

That's all we got in return..

We got less mold problems because we put 2 dehumidifiers

ourselves. He didn't paid anyone for these 3 years to fix any

water infiltrations that went through our walls.

My room is condemned since one year and half.

I sleep on the couch.

We attempted to move out through all this time.

Rent is 700$ plus 250$ for electricity and water.

The apartments around us is now worth 1250$ and 300$

for water/elec. Since we stayed there and it keep

getting higher.

The only reason we still got a low rent, it's because way stayed.

The landlord tried to rise the rent many times too.

Since we interfered with his maneuver, he got really made

at us. Because all the other landlords does this and we

are the rare ones who stop him so by legal ways.

He lay block bricks on our road entrance out of vengeance

when the case started to get in our favor. Threatened

to kick us out and said things that I won't mention here.

We recorded him on that part.

Then proceed to tell every neighbors that we were bad people,

saying the most ridiculous things you could hear of it.

They vandalised my mom's car. 5 times.

He rent the entrance road to a neighbor too while removing the brick wall.

After the case was settle and we received the final verdict.

The landlord went silent, took his porsche and let to Mexico.

I'm honest, even if we won on this one.

It kinda hurts to see how much the laws

and the authorities close their eyes on

people who got the money.

The police told us that he used to sell cocain

and ask us to not be in his way..

I just wish Justin Trudeau was kick out of being

Prime Minister and anyone that will stop this

none sense to happen. Not just to us.

Plus, if I wasn't here to defend my mother for her

safety. She would be homeless or worst.

I used to plan to leave and going in an apartment

alone. But since I saw how much the landlord

is a piece of shit.

I stayed, and I'm glad my mother is safe.

Let's hope I got money enough to make her retire from this

and move on to live my life by myself again.

But right now family is what I fight for.

Have a good day.