'The landlords have no accountability': Wrongfully evicted B.C. woman wins tenancy branch battle, but says former landlord refuses to pay up
'The landlords have no accountability': Wrongfully evicted B.C. woman wins tenancy branch battle, but says former landlord refuses to pay up
A B.C. woman says she was awarded tens of thousands of dollars by the Residential Tenancy Branch after a wrongful eviction, but is yet to see a cent of it from her former landlord.
I didn’t realize it was so difficult to actually force landlords to pay up, even when they’re in the wrong. I can’t believe this family expects to never see any money when the RTB has already ruled in their favour.
I know a guy who also won his hearing but now has to enforce the ruling, and it seems like it's completely up to him to now to get his money? Like he has to seek out bailiff services himself I guess? It feels pretty strange to hear that he won the hearing against his landlord, they owe him money, but getting the money isn't some automatic process. Like what's the fucking point?
I know somebody who ran into this after a judgement regarding false information on a property sale (known, expensive defects were not reported). Once the judgement was in their favor, they basically went with the authorities to seize the seller's RV and/or some other stuff roughly equivalent to the judgement. They paid up pretty quickly then
You'd think you should be able to put a lien on the property at the very least, but I don't know anything.
Yeah, I won an Order Of Possession in 2010, and the landlord just laughed and said Good luck with that!