by Chris Seepe | Oct 14, 2021 | Featured
I’ve been intimately involved in the affordable housing crisis for many years. Recently, I identified 14 causal factors that have led me to conclude that the purchase and rental of affordable housing will never happen until “affordability” is properly defined and the...
by Chris Seepe | Jul 13, 2021 | Featured
REM published a story July 6, 2021, titled Ottawa Realtors urge municipality to address senior housing issues. While it’s commendable that the Ottawa Real Estate Board and Ontario Real Estate Association (the agencies) identify a worthy cause, everyone’s already known...
by Natalka Falcomer | Sep 9, 2020 | Featured
The recent changes to Ontario’s Residential Tenancies Act aimed to address the myriad of issues created by the fact that living in cities is just not affordable. But these changes didn’t address a solution many tenants have found to dealing with the unaffordability...
by Chris Seepe | Aug 27, 2019 | News
Most residential landlords would say without hesitation that Ontario’s annual rent increase guideline does not fairly reflect the true cost of operating a residential rental property in Ontario. Is that really true? I couldn’t find anyone – landlords, government...
by Avi Rosen | Jun 24, 2019 | Legal Issues
Many agents come to our office with this problem. The agent has executed an Agreement of Purchase and Sale while there is a tenant on the premises and the purchaser wants vacant possession. We were initially retained to defend a client on a matter of unauthorized...
