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Richard

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Landlord Tenant Board backlog: Ontarians are waiting months
« on: April 22, 2022, 10:35:25 pm »
Landlord Tenant Board backlog: Why Ontarians are waiting months for resolutions


https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/landlord-tenant-board-backlog-why-ontarians-are-waiting-months-for-resolutions-1.5872030

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Major backlogs at Ontario's Landlord Tenant Board, due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, is forcing people to wait months, even years for a hearing, drawing out disputes between property owners and renters.
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Re: Landlord Tenant Board backlog: Ontarians are waiting months
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2022, 10:53:40 am »
Months? Try years.

I just had my final hearing this week for a case which has gone on for THREE YEARS.

I lost, thanks to an angry, dismissive, landlord centric adjudicator who was so disorganized she didn't even have my evidence in front of her, even though I sent it before the Board deadline. She blamed me because she didn't have the evidence, made me resend it and then refused to look at it anyway.

It was a harassment/illegal entry case from 2019. I made the mistake of mediating, then 4 months later the landlord breached and I filed for a reopening. It took 8 months to get a hearing date. Then the landlord's representative died (apparently) and we were told we'd get another hearing date in three months. We didn't get a date until 6 months later, on a week's notice.
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