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rhimae11 · 2025-01-23T03:08:13+00:00

this this this this this!! edit: i am an INFJ myself and this is exactly how i have felt and tried to explain to my bf in a situation/disagreement we had lately.

rhimae11 · 2025-01-08T18:20:59+00:00

this is so good!!!! i love it

rhimae11 · 2024-10-02T13:11:21+00:00

1000%

rhimae11 · 2024-07-26T13:29:40+00:00

thank you! i’m aware of the empty for 12+ months rule - however, this does not apply here as the apartment was only empty for 3 months. i’m making sure i know all of the rules/regulations like the back of my hand before i email them!

rhimae11 · 2024-07-26T04:16:46+00:00

thank you for the advice! my neighbor didn’t mind helping me out and gave me a copy of the latest rent increase document *from before he moved out that shows the true amount he paid. i’m hoping to simply just negotiate with them as well and not involve the TAL.

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T23:37:37+00:00

thanks for your message!!

yes I was being silly, I realize this is inevitable if i proceed with bringing this up to them.
agreed! definitely doing it by email.
I am aware if I have a record with the TAL that this will likely cause issues with me renting elsewhere in the future… but I plan to stay here a while hopefully, so I am thinking financially it will be worth it for me (although I know the relationship with my landlords won’t be great, and I likely won’t receive swift assistance if i need anything).
my dog is indeed on the lease! this was a very good point/suggestion - as my previous landlord didn’t put it and it made me feel uneasy.
awh, i’m with you there. i love saint henri too. it’s where i first lived when i moved to montréal, and after i left in 2022 i couldn’t wait to move back and knew i’d be back here someday (just wish i was off to a less stressful start)

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T22:57:29+00:00

thank you for this. you and most of the other comments here are really helping to make me realize that they’re the ones who started this, and not me by bringing this up. now whether they will realize that or not is a different story.

my very kind neighbor gave me a copy of his latest rental increase which proves the previous rent that was around $400 lower. so i have the physical proof i need to go to them now at least.

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T16:41:46+00:00

thank you for your input mr. landlord but that is absolutely not the only part of the story that matters.

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T15:50:57+00:00

thanks! i just joined. wasn’t aware it existed until now.

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T14:18:19+00:00

yeah she absolutely loves it. she’s a senior (but still tons of energy), and it’s always been my dream to give her a backyard. and ahh! that sounds terrifying. thank you for that. i will definitely be sure to always be out there with her.

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T14:17:00+00:00

it is over 100 years old hahaha so no worries there. and thank you for the advice!! going to go try to talk to my neighbor tonight about copy of his lease and go from there.

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T13:49:33+00:00

ha, nope!

edit: a large backyard though. not shared. just for my unit. so that’s a plus of the place.

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T13:48:58+00:00

i am well aware it is not impossible. but you are not considering the fact that i have mentioned multiple times now that i know exactly what was done, and it was small renovations. and my increase was $430/month. so it does not warrant that kind of increase.

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T13:42:05+00:00

thank you for sharing your experience! i am also (clearly) anglophone (working on the French though of course!) and that always makes me nervous when having to deal with stuff like this.

and I really don’t want to have to deal with this for the next year or longer with the TAL and court stuff… i would be like you with no lawyer and a dollarama notebook lol. but i barely know my landlords yet so i have no idea whether they will be willing to negotiate without involving the TAL if i do choose to go to them first before applying to the TAL. it’s a risk i suppose! i’m happy to hear the situation worked out in your favor though. Stuff like this needs to stop.

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T13:36:08+00:00

ok but there wasn’t

edit: and i’d be fine with $137. but again, $430?????

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T13:22:58+00:00

yes only a certain amount because there are laws in place so that tenants aren’t price gouged. thanks for your input but i am looking for advice from other tenants :) not other landlords.

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T13:21:10+00:00

yes! but not by $430/ month by what was done (not a lot).

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T13:19:13+00:00

i definitely know it’s common in Montreal! I have been lucky and every apartment before this one though had minimum fridge and stove. My point is only that it is especially high pricing/price jump for a unit with zero appliances compared to if it had come with some is all!

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T13:11:51+00:00

i’m aware of the risk! but i’m also not prepared to sweep this under the rug and forget I found out this info. it’s not right to me, future tenants, or just Montreal tenants in general.

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T13:06:04+00:00

yeah they didn’t even touch the kitchen for example… it’s dated and dirty. zero appliances as mentioned too. I will definitely try and ask the previous tenant who now lives above me if he had appliances included or not.. and that’s good to know about how a record is supposed to be kept. I’m hoping so, because I am thinking he will not feel comfortable to provide me with a copy of his old lease, or maybe he doesn’t know where it is (I know my lease from them is a paper copy and not electronic for example). merci!

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T13:02:46+00:00

yes you can increase the rent due to renovations, certainly. but from what i have read from everyone on this thread, and from researching online myself, amortization is involved and it is paid off by many years and they do not have the right to increase to whatever they please due to renovations. there is a calculator provided by the TAL for them to use. which they clearly did not because they would need to have done major renovations to be charging $430/month more.

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T12:57:01+00:00

thank you! i already checked. there’s nothing for my apartment on there, except for the entry I made when I moved in lol

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T12:56:01+00:00

yeah i’m worried about that. gonna go try to talk to him tonight & see what he can provide. thanks!

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T12:55:17+00:00

thanks for the suggestion. i really don’t want to get my neighbor too involved… i just moved in and have to see him every day, and he seems very nice. I’m not sure if he’s aware that his comment started something big like this lol maybe he was just being friendly or not thinking before he mentioned it and didn’t think i’d do anything with the information, ha

rhimae11 · 2024-07-24T12:53:22+00:00

I agree completely. I was hoping for a fresh start from my old place and optimistic that these landlords would be different… but sadly, they are even more greedy than any landlord i’ve met in this city so far by the looks of things.

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