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A Toronto landlord bought a 1 per cent stake in a house. Then, seven tenants were served eviction notices

The tenants of a semi-detached house in Toronto’s east end could be forced from their rental homes after a 1 per cent stake of the property, at a cost of $9,000, was transferred to a 20-year-old first-time homebuyer.

With that sliver of ownership, Jacky Bai Jun Liu also acquired the title of landlord and as such, seven people in two apartments in the house were informed, he would be pursuing his legal right to push them out because he intended to move into the home near Danforth and Greenwood Aves.

“It was kind of like a slap in the face,” says tenant Devon McKenzie, 24, who shares a lower-level unit with three roommates. “How does that 1 per cent give anybody any sort of right to have any say at all.”

McKenzie, with the support of her roommates, is fighting the eviction and a hearing is scheduled at the Landlord and Tenant Board for Sept 18. There, a board member must determine if it is both fair and legal for Liu, as a 1 per cent owner, to claim both apartments in the house under a part of the Residential Tenancies Act that allows landlords to evict for personal use.

A transfer document from the Land Registry Office dated June 18 shows that spouses Chiang and Chung transferred a 1 per cent interest to Liu, identified as a first-time homebuyer, worth $9,000.

The N12 notice informing the tenants that Liu planned to evicted them for personal use were also dated June 18 and is signed at the bottom by Liu. Chung is co-named as a landlord on the front of that eviction form.

Full story:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/07...enants-were-served-eviction-notices.html