標題: Victory for tenants of a West End apartment building [打印本頁] 作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-1-24 00:39 標題: Victory for tenants of a West End apartment building
Victory for tenants of a West End apartment building
Owners taken to the Residential Tenancy Branch
Renee Bernard Jan 23, 2011 13:53:38 PM
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Beleaguered tenants of an apartment building in the West End are celebrating a victory. But the battle against its owners is far from over.
The Residential Tenancy Branch has ruled that documents issued to tenants last year regarding work that needed to be done to the building was designed to misinform and intimidate them.
Eighty-four-year-old Gerhardt Sonnenberg and his wife were two of the 19 tenants the ruling affects. He describes how he felt when he learned that he would have to leave. "I refused to move out. We have been residents for 38 years. There were no grounds for it."
But it's not over for Hollyburn Properties, the owners of the Emerald Terrace.
A second batch of tenants with the same complaints will soon have their hearings at the branch. Plus new tenants, who claim breach of contract regarding the conditions of their suites, will also be heading for a hearing.
