Posted by Just a Tenant on 1/20/2012, 10:14:16, in reply to "Re: Landlord's Agent Entering Apartment Without Notice or Consent; IEU refuses to help"
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS -- You have no knowledge other than what the landlord says that the person entering your home on a daily basis is an "agent" of the landlord. An agent of the landlord is someone who takes on the legal duties of a landlord ... primarily someone who collects rent. It is not a 'duty' of a landlord to enter your apartment daily to collect mail or turn off appliances. I believe a LTB member can recognize a distinction here between an agent, and just a friend.
I recommend the following:
a) send a stern letter to the landlord telling him to stop or you will apply to the LTB.
b)call the police and file a complaint. Tell them you do not know the identity of the person who is entering your unit daily -- because you don't. If they tell you it is a civil matter write a letter of complaint to the Civilian Review Board.
c) immediately add a chain lock to the door that allows you to dis-engage it with a key from the outside of the unit -- this is different from changing the locks which, although not permissible under the RTA, I believe under these circumstances there is not a Board Member alive that would penalize a tenant for doing so under these circumstances.
Leaving a computer with a cam on, but black screen, in your home while you are out is amazing evidence -- borrow one from a friend for a day to get the evidence you need to slam this guy at the LTB and get compensation. You will also find out what else this person does when they are in your HOME.
P.S. The enforcement branch of the LTB only deals with enforcing orders of the Board or City, property standard issues and things that are tangible that they can see. They cant sit in your unit waiting for this person to enter. You need to file at the LTB for this one.
Visit duty council at an LTB office for further advice about how to do the forms if needed.
Good Luck
--Previous Message--
: You do not need to deal with the agent (that
: is, you do not need to know who the agent
: is). You need to deal with the landlord.
:
: Separate mail boxes or mail slots may not
: work insofar as the mail carrier has no
: obigation to separate the mail where there
: are added "drops" on his or her
: route, unless these extra drops are approved
: by management. The postal carrier's
: compensation is determined in part by the
: number of "drops" on the route, so
: where an additional unapproved mailbox
: appears on the route they might separate the
: mail as a courtesy but are not required to.
:
: Notwithstanding this the RTA clearly
: requires that the landlord must give proper
: notice before entering your unit (unless you
: agree to a different arrangement).
:
: --Previous Message--
: Every week my landlord sends an agent into
: my
: basement apartment to take the mail and turn
: my heater off. I have notified my landlord
: several times in writing that I did not
: consent to the agent's entry without notice
: but they refuse to stop.
:
: I've asked my landlord to install a separate
: mail slot or mailbox for their part of the
: house as we have separate entrances and do
: not share a kitchen or bathroom, but they
: refuse to do so without even telling me why.
:
: I've tried contacting the Investigation and
: Enforcement Unit about this but they refused
: to do anything because I don't know who the
: agent is (of course my landlord refuses to
: tell me), don't have video proof, and
: because the IEU supposedly doesn't deal with
: that even though it says they do right on
: their homepage.
:
: Is the burden of proof really that high for
: a tenant to prove a landlord is violating
: their privacy? Is there anything I can do to
: get them to stop?
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