5 Reddit Tenant-vs-Landlord Stories That Will Make You Re-Read Your Lease Tonight
A $1,400 ‘market’ rent hike. A landlord who tried to ban houseplants. A mould thread the city actually responded to.
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If you rent in this country, you’ve read at least one of these threads. You probably sent it to your group chat. You definitely didn’t feel better after — but you did finally pull up your lease.
The thread that started it all: a Toronto tenant whose landlord raised the rent by $1,400 “to match the market.” The Landlord and Tenant Board backlog became a character in its own right.
Out of Vancouver: a basement tenant who documented mould for nine months before the city stepped in. The photos are difficult. The update is satisfying.
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An Ottawa post about a landlord who tried to add a clause banning houseplants, citing “water damage risk.” The tenant won. The plants stayed. The landlord lost on three separate fronts.
A Montreal student’s story about a roommate sublet gone wrong is the closest thing the subreddit has to a horror novella. It is also, technically, a love story.
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And the Halifax thread that made the rounds nationally: a landlord who stopped responding entirely after the tenant requested a heat repair in January. The community helped. The pipes did not.
If you want to read the full updates, the thread links are pinned at the top of our weekly Reddit roundup.
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