A Burnaby tenant from hell who moved into a rental unit without permission has been evicted due to fighting issues that included taking an axe to a door in a fit of rage.
Those details are listed in a B.C. Residential Tenancy Branch dispute resolution document that included reasons for approving a landlord’s application for the tenant to be evicted.
The landlord testified that the tenant was never actually approved before moving in, but that “somehow the prior tenant gave them access and there is no subleasing of the premises.”
The tenant was found living there in September 2021 and actually signed a mutual agreement to move out of the rental unit, “which the tenant has ignored,” reads the ruling.
Things quickly went downhill as the landlord moved to have this person move out due to not having an actual agreement to live there. The landlord was also not being paid rent at this time and lost more than $5,000 in unpaid rent during this turmoil.
The landlord testified at a hearing that a fight broke out in the rental unit in which “the fire extinguisher case in the hallway was broken and the extinguisher and an axe were used to smash the rental unit door causing significant damage and an unreasonable disturbance to the occupants,” the ruling says. “The landlord stated that the police attended the premises.”
Despite multiple warnings, the tenant ignored notices that they were to move out and so the landlord asked for a ruling to back up the eviction.
“The tenant has not vacated the premises and has caused an unreasonable disturbance and significant damage to the resident property,” the arbitrator said while approving the eviction.
This ruling follows another case in which a dirty tenant in Burnaby caused an infestation of cockroaches.
The landlord applied to the RTB to terminate the lease because the renter hadn’t lived up to one of the lease conditions that the home be kept with a minimum of health and sanitary standards.
The dirty conditions led to a cockroach infestation, but the tenant refused to accommodate efforts to have a pest control company treat the place, a hearing heard, including moving his personal possessions.
“The tenant is also aggressive and rude with other occupants, the landlord’s agent, and with the pest control inspector,” reads the ruling.
The arbitrator also ruled that the tenant be evicted as soon as possible.
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