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Messages - Charlotte Mickie

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Other Tenant Problems / TTC work
« on: March 13, 2023, 09:31:32 am »
I will call the FMTA today too for advice, but I wondered if readers had thoughts.  The TTC is sinking an elevator shaft into the front lawn of our building.  They have engaged with tenants directly.  As tenants we are concerned about noise, access to the street, vibrations that could cause damage to our units and personal property etc.  We've had a virtual meeting with the TTC and are waiting for answers to our questions.

Work has not begun in earnest (start on our grounds is 2024), but we're going through road restrictions as TTC does utility investigation.  The TTC promised personnel to assist residents who drive and are now having trouble getting in and out of the parking lot, but the "personnel" have not materialized.  Should the landlord be handling this with the TTC or should the tenants be complaining to the TTC about this, or both?

With thanks!

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Other Tenant Problems / Movie shooting in my building
« on: July 28, 2022, 06:23:00 pm »
Our landlord leased out a vacant apartment for a shoot--it's actually for an episode of tv series.  The production is very expensive, big, and while the shoot is only for a day, there was a lot of prep work.  The landlord gave very little notice, and in all honesty, I don't think the landlord expecting the level of activity/disruption the shoot would entail.  In any case, tenants are upset.  Since the landlord received compensation for the shoot, do tenants have any grounds to ask for compensation from the landlord?   I should note that our landlord also provided the TTC with an easement to do extensive work on our property and I understand (through the grapevine) that there was compensation for that as well.  Again there will be serious tenant inconvenience, although for a much longer period.  I am not sure the landlord could have resisted the easement (it's required to make the subway near us accessible), but still it doesn't seem right that tenants will be put out and the landlord will receive all the benefit.  I do realise all these disruptions make it harder to rent empty units, so the landlord is taking something of a loss...

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Rent / Lifting of moratorium on rent increases
« on: September 21, 2021, 02:44:45 pm »
Tenants in our building get their increases based on when they signed their leases.  Our landlord gave increases for 2020 that started (based on leases) in late 2020, continuing into late 2021.  Then because the moratorium was lifted for 2022, he sent out a new series of increases starting January 1, 2022.  The result is that several tenants have received as little as 2 months rent relief.  Surely this was not the intention of the moratorium?  Is this correct?

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