Residential leasing with renters in the Port Coquitlam BC Renovation Business

B.C. The Residential Leasing Branch sided with tenants in a mbad renovation case in Port Coquitlam.

Cheryl Sanftleben does not have to leave her rental unit at 1955 Western Drive where she has been living for more than two decades, the branch said.

"Oh, I'm on the moon," Sanftleben said. "It has been so stressful."

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Earlier this year, building owners issued eviction notices, ordering a hundred tenants to move out by the end of June for renovations.

But the tenants argued that they had an ulterior motive: to give the building an aesthetic appearance and increase the rents of the new tenants.

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However, according to the evidence submitted to the tenant branch, none of the contractors performing work for the owner stated that the dwellings were in fact to be vacated in order for the work to begin.

"Having found that the building and construction industry professionals of the landlord had not generally explained that the building was to be vacant in order to complete the renovations, I believe that the landlord's response to the question of his intention of good faith does not allow him to establish well they have no other purpose or ulterior motive to put an end to the rentings ", one reads in the decision of the subsidiary.

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Sanftleben learned the new Monday night and she learned that her apartment was still at home.

"As if everyone weighed on me, for all of us," she said, describing the feeling.

The 51-year-old building is home to a hundred tenants, mostly seniors who have lived there for decades.

A landlord or tenant may apply to the British Columbia Supreme Court within 60 days for a judicial review.