Metro Vancouver landlords sidestepping rental rules in hot real estate market

Published on July 28, 2016, 11:10 am

Published by BC Local News

The mad rush to cash in on Metro Vancouver’s white hot residential real estate market is leading more landlords to sidestep the rules and leaving many renters as frustrated casualties. Andrew Sakamoto, executive director of non-profit TRAC Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre, said complaints about so-called bad-faith evictions — where a tenant suspects a landlord is evicting them under false pretences in order to move in a new tenant paying higher rent — have more than tripled in the past six months.





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