A FAMILY’S landlord is using a loophole to evict them from their home.
Jennifer and Kristopher Miller have been fighting to stay in their Vancouver home after their landlord issued an eviction notice, for reasons the couple finds suspicious.
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“We feel like we’re kind of living in limbo and we’ve been living in limbo since the middle of December,” Jennifer said to CTV in January.
“We don’t know what to do,” Kristopher added.
After living in the home for two years, they received a no-fault eviction notice claiming that the landlord’s son needed to move into the property.
However, Kristopher believes this was not the real reason for the eviction.
“We think it’s suspicious that his son is moving in,” Kristopher said.
“All communication in regards to this house has all been in regards to a rental increase, not that his son has been displaced.”
No-fault evictions allow the landlord to remove a tenant, even if it is not any fault of their own.
Robert Patterson, a lawyer for the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre, explained that this has been a common tool for landlords to use in the area.
“What it’s caused is a pivot,” Patterson said.
“There is an epidemic of this specific kind of eviction right now in the province.”
The eviction process has been previously criticized for how it puts tenant’s security at risk, according to the Alan Boswell Group.
“The process needs to be fairer, it needs to be more transparent,” he said.
“It needs to give tenants a chance to protect and defend their housing in the middle of a housing and eviction crisis.”
‘TOOK ME FOR EVERYTHING’
Jennifer and Kristopher are not the only people dealing with an unfair eviction.
What it means for a home to be put in foreclosure
Foreclosures can happen when lenders take control of a property after borrowers have failed to make their repayments.
Homeowners or borrowers will receive a Notice of Default by their lender triggering the foreclosure process.
Those in HOA communities can also see their homes foreclosed by their HOA for falling behind on fees, meaning that even if you keep up on mortgage payments, you can still lose your home.
Before foreclosure, a HOA will put a lien on your property which then allows them to auction it to reclaim unpaid funds.
The sale price of the property can often be much less than it’s worth as it only needs to be enough to cover the debts to the HOA or lender and is sold via auction to the highest bidder.
A mother paid $5,100 to a woman named Angel East to cover her First and last month’s rent plus a security deposit for her new home.
East was said to be an agent for a luxury home service, who promised Nikita Jones a two-bedroom, one-bath home.
“I ended up getting the key delivered to my job, and that’s when I proceeded to live here.”
She moved in with her daughters, and before she could even get comfortable, Jones was served an eviction notice.
What shocked her was the fact that the notice was under somebody else’s name.
“I have just been victimized by her [East]. Now, I’m facing eviction with my two kids.”
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