Well, since I just made up my definition, I’ll give the OP leeway to use it any way he sees fit, also.
Well you read “backwater, inbred-sister-loving peasant town” a little different than me, but in the end you’re right. Heat, kitchen, door, ass and all that. I’m going back to IMHO dating threads.
If the law provides a loophole and a landlord then avails him/herself of that loophole, how is the landlord breaking the law?
Baffle, if you are still reading this, I’d take this to the media. Just a month ago, the media stories about students having problems finding places to rent was big news.
There was mention of a lease being broken if the "landlord “moves in”. Most leases are yearly here, and after that they go to month to month so my guess is he signed a lease sometime less than 9 months ago (less than the 1 year minus 3 month notice for rent increase.
Now the landlord wishes to raise the rent, violating both the lease and and legal regulations. The landlord is now using a loophole, by saying that he will “move in”, when the only purpose of using this loophole is in order to blackmail baffle into paying this illegal increase, or Baffle will be evicted using this loophole, and if the landlord think he can get away with it the landlord will list and then rent out the place within a day of Baffle moving out (perhaps citing that he and his wife made up or something).
Baffle, when did you sign the lease? How long of a term? If it is quite recent, this sounds like a bait & switch. The media would think so too, mention this when you ask the landlord how to spell his name for when you call the media.
Write the newspapers, phone the TV stations and see what they think.
Aha! If the landlady is presenting you a choice between you paying an increase in rent prior to the end of the lease or she have a relative move in, then that should constitute prima facie proof that she has no actual intent to have a relative move in. What she’s attempting to do is simply blackmail the current tenant.
I agree with the other posters who say you should go straight to the media with this story.
Oh - btw… As a student you can get free legal guidance through the University:
Calgary Student Legal Assistance (403) 220-6637
That’s what I thought. But, based on the cites in this thread, it is legal with 3 months notice to increase rent on a 1 year lease one time within the period of a year.
The initial amount is counted, so after nine months has gone by, the landlord can give notice that rent is increasing as soon as that one year period is over.
At the same time - the lease is usually rolled over to being month to month after the initial term of a year, but the landlord is still bound to only increase rent once per year per tenant.
I moved in on November 1, 2006. The rent was increased six months later at the expiry of the lease, on May 1, 2007. A new law came into effect which now states the rent cannot be increased more than once per year, no matter what. It’s not May 1, 2008 yet.
(I’ll have been there a year and a month when this next rent increase goes into effect, an increase of 27.25% in a year.)
“Cunt rocket,” by the way, is a dysphemism for penis. It’s not particularly clever, but I like the harsh K sounds it produces.
Getting in late here.
So, you’re complaining about a rent increase which will take effect 8-9 months from now? So, you’re not gonna be sleeping under a bridge next month, with winter coming on? I’m confused. -
samclem, the landlord wants to increase the rent starting December 1. The law says it can’t be done until May 1. Since I moved in on November 1 of last year, December 1 of this year is a year and a month since the original move in date. An increase of 27.25% in 13 months is pretty ridiculous, and an increase after only 7 months is pretty illegal.
Wow, well can’t she take the demand for higher rent and the proof that it’s more than once a year to the authorities? Even if she is forced into action, she can at least get the landlord’s unethical behaviour on record. Wow I’m sorry, what a horrible predicament.
Few here ever come to that realization. Kudos to you, dude. 
DanBlather are you the pit police? I have read much worse in the pit and have not seen your policing before. My understanding is that the pit is where you go on these boards to flame or otherwise complain or vent. In fact, from the forum description “If you gotta flame, do it here.”
Did I miss it in the rules where it says the posts cannot include remarks that other posters would find offensive or irrelavent to the pitting?
That being said, I am all for you being able to express your disgust at the OP, but to keep going on and on and on about it seems a bit much.