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City out 80 grand after helping apartment residents
Hamilton Spectator
3/13/2013

The city of Hamilton is being left out in the cold.

It's on the hook for 80 thousand dollars spent on gas payments to keep the heat on at an East End highrise.  

The gas was shut off at 355 Melvin Avenue in July of 2008 and the city stepped in using the vital services by-law to protect the tenants from a landlord who didn't pay his bills.  

The city put a lien on the property.

Now the Ontario court of appeal says Hamilton can't recoup it's expenses because the property has been sold, but the proceeds weren't enough to cover the city's account.  

The ruling ends any hope Hamilton had of seeing that money again.  


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  1. MariaR_6861 posted on 03/13/2013 10:34 AM
    To many governments. Tenants are rude and demanding but they do not keep anything in order and they do not pay the rents. It is time that we are given back the right to property rights. Tenants are not responsible for anything in regards to the maintenance of the property but they act like they own it because of the rent control. People now days want to be kept at the expense of others and for them to have their money to spend it on pleasure. Tenants must wake up to the reality that utilities and mortgages and insurance and repairs and all the other upkeep and maintenance is very expensive and that the rent does no longer is covering all the occurring expenses. But at least the going rent must be paid to be able to receive the services. People want things free. No where on the Earth one can get things free. They think that the owner of the apartments and rental units are raking in a large amount of money. It is because they not yet had an experience of ownership. When they get to know of how things are when one owns a place of your own they then get in line and change their minds. Then when they become lander of a space in their own homes to help to subsidize the expenses, they become rough and rude and they then demanding the same way when they were tenants but in the opposite side of the fence. It is time abolish rent control. It is not fair to those who provide shelter to keep the people off the streets.
    People must understand, shelter, food, and clothing and transportation's and health comes before anything .
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