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Meet Bad Landlord Ron Vahrmeyer:
+1 905-935-8001
Coldwell Banker Momentum Realty, Brokerage 353 Lake Street
Ron Vahrmeyer steals their tenants deposits.
If your landlord is like Ron, report them here: bit.ly/ReportBadLandlords
Since recently becoming the owner of a 60-unit building, property manager Marzia Pizzoferrato of MG Grand Properties has been attempting to push tenants out in order to raise rent, by way of prolonged renovations and removing necessities and services from the mostly older occupants of the buidling.
Instances of this include leaving tenants without hot water for a week, and without laundry services for a month. Water is shut off constantly for “repairs”.
In addition to this, they fail to communicate with or answer calls from tenants.
Don’t be like Marzia.
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Meet Pia, Antonia and Patricia of North Apartments Ltd.
Negligence by landlords Pia, Antonia and Patricia has resulted in unacceptable living conditions for tenants. Aside from failing to provide proper notice of entry and being rude to tenants, Pia, Antonia and Patricia have neglected to properly maintain units, leaving tenants to suffer from infestations of cockroaches and ants, black mold, electrical issues and water leaks, as well as heating issues that the landlords refuse to address.
If you have a bad landlord like Pia, Antonia or Patricia that you want to shame, fill out our Bad Landlord Reporting tool.
Meet Bad Landlord Joseph Potter.
905-685-6817
Represented by Stefan at Boncore Property Management (stefan@boncore.ca), Joseph Potter consciously allows the building he owns to be overrun by a bed bug infestation and instead of taking proper, timely precautions, he blames his tenants for the issue. He expects tenants to incur costs that are only required due to his mismanagement of the situation, as well as requesting and taking unnecessary rent money from tenants. Additionally, he has threatened to serve tenants with a bad faith N4.
He also consistently refuses to acknowledge tenant’s concerns regarding their safety and well-being in other ways, and sympathizes with tenants who have been complained about multiple times for things such as mail theft and harassment. He himself has made a number of inappropriate, intimidating, and downright creepy comments to tenants, including descriptions of acts of violence and claiming to know how and have access to materials to make a pipe bomb.
If you know a bad landlord like Joseph, report them using our Bad Landlord Reporting tool.
Say hello to Alice Rabideau,
289-969-8389
7 Tasker St, St. Catharines, ON L2R 3Z7
Know a bad landlord like Alice? Report them here.
Re: 35 Niagara, St. Catharines.
Alex And Kaely Pal, owners of Pal Property Solutions in Hamilton recently bought 35 Niagara St, St. Catharines. It was a 20 unit rooming house of small affordable apartments for low income people, many with disabilities, substance use issues, and extremely difficult life circumstances. Immediately after closing on the property, Alex and Kaely renovicted everyone in the building, leaving them homeless.
Now Alex and Kaely are in the process of renovating 35 Niagara St from 20 affordable units into 8 high cost units. This will effectively eliminate 20 units of affordable housing from St. Catharines’ already non-existent affordable housing stock. The current wait list for subsidized units in St. Catharines at a similar price to 35 Niagara is approximately 20 years. Most of the people renovicted from this building will never find similarly priced housing and are now likely in tents outdoors, or struggling to find limited shelter beds in a violent and overcrowded shelter system during a pandemic.
While 35 Niagara St was poorly maintained and had many problems, it was far safer and more secure for vulnerable low income people than living on the street or in a shelter. And the concerns from the community about drug use, violence, crime, etc, will get worse now that people are forced into public spaces like parks and sidewalks rather than indoors. This will also increase the risk of overdose deaths as people will be more likely to use alone in secluded areas outdoors.
Greedy unscrupulous Real Estate profiteering like this is at the core of the housing crisis we face. Alex and Kaely’s profits and comfortable yuppie lifestyle are directly related to the masses of people we see every day living in encampments in parks and under bridges. Extreme poverty and homelessness often lead to health issues including premature death, as housing is a primary social determinant of health. Alex and Kaely’s profiting from making people homeless will certainly increase the public cost of healthcare and social services in the community, in addition to the brutal human toll. This is what structural violence looks like.
Feel free to let these greedy gentrifying parasites know what you think of them.
Alex and Kaely Pal
Pal Property Solutions
453 Wentworth St N, Hamilton, ON
289-426-2700
info@palpropertysolutions.com
https://www.facebook.com/PalPropertySolutions/
https://www.facebook.com/AlexPalPRG/
