Have you recently recieved a variance application from your landlord to reduce your Rent Reduction?
In December 2009, 130,000 tenants in the City of Toronto received Rent Reductions because their landlord's taxes had gone down.
Now, landlords of over 100 buildings are trying to reduce or eliminate those rent reductions. Many have made a "variance application" trying to claim that municipal waste charges should offset the reduction.
The FMTA disagrees.
A number of organizations have put together a submission that tenants can use to fight these applications.
You can download a copy of this submission here.
Remember, if no one makes a submission to the landlord's application, tenants could lose their rent reduction.
If you want to try and keep your rent reduction:
-Download and print the document "Repsonse to Variance Applications Based on Municipal Waste Charges". Again you can download the submission here.
-Fill out and sign the attached written submission
-Mail of fax it to the Landlord and Tenant Board address on the notice of hearing. If you have not yet recieved a notice of hearing, you should recieve one soon. You can also call and check to see when your notice should be arriving by calling the Landlord and Tenant Board at 416-645-8080.
Landlords have applied to reduce or eliminate rent reductions in the following buildings:
12 Anglesey Blvd
100 Alexander St.
12 & 14 Auburndale Crt
40 & 50 Aurora Court
2675 Bloor Street W
265 Balliol Street
655 Broadview Ave
32-34 Brookwell Dr.
2 Biggin Crt
375 Bay Mills Blvd
10 Bridletowne Circle
552 & 2360 Birchmount Rd
32 - 34 Brookwell Dr.
30 Burn Hill
1 Claude Ave
150 Cosburn Ave
7-11 Crescent Place
1050 Castlefield Ave
265 & 270 & 275 Cassandra Blvd
79 Clearview Heights
111 Combermere Dr
32 Craighton Dr
20 Chichester Pl
10 & 40 & 50 Carabob Crt
1 Claude Avenue
99 Coe Hill Dr.
390 & 510 Dawes Road
70 Delisle Avenue
301 Dixon Road
1063, 1122, 1133 and 2600 and 2980 Don Mills Road
2, 4, 6 & 10 The Donway E.
730 Dovercourt Rd.
200 Dufferin
3000 Dufferin Street
65 Dynevor Rd.
440 & 970 & 972 & 2243 & 2283 & 2303 & 2360 Eglinton Ave. E.
165 Erskine Ave.
25 Eva Road
715 & 1825 Finch Ave. W.
150 Fermanagh
7 Glazebrook Ave.
11 Goldfinch Crt
75 Gosford Blvd
100 Gowan Ave.
4 Grandstand Place
20 Graydon Hall Drive
25 greencrest Circt.
1202-33 Harbour Square
25 Havenbrook Blvd.
10 Hogarth Avenue
156 Islington Avenue
79, 91, 169 Jameson Ave.
1855 and 2940 and 2970 Jane Street
35 Jansusie Rd.
2500 & 3595 Keele Street
191 Kenilworth Ave.
833 Kennedy Road
1251 King St. W.
1080 & 2570 Kingston Rd
2737 & 2757 Kipling Ave.
220 & 240 Lake Promenade
980, 2190 & 3125 Lawrence Ave. E.
25 Leith Hill Road
225 & 399 Markham Road
2 & 8 Milepost Place
340 Mill Road
121 & 131 Minerva Ave.
280 Morningside Ave.
620 Northcliffe
21 & 31 Park Blvd.
110 Parkway Forest Drive
57 & 66 Parkwoods Village Drive
650 & 670 Parliament
263 & 273 & 283 & 860 & 3050 Pharmacy Ave.
25-55 Provence Trail
1 Rannock Street
303 & 303A Riverside
7 & 11 Rochefort Dr.
101 Roehampton Ave.
135 Rose Avenue
107 Roselawn Ave.
323 & 357 Rusholme
25 San Romano Way
500 & 530 Scarlett Road
392, 545, 555, 565 Sherbourne
5600 Sheppard Ave. E.
2020 Sheppard Ave. W.
65 & 99 Silver Springs Blvd.
2903 St. Clair Ave.
10 & 12 & 25 St. Dennis Drive
1955 Steeles Ave. E.
98 Stephen Dr
71 Talara Drive
26, 27, 50, 52, 53, 54, & 56 Thorncliffe Park Drive
10 Tinder Crescent
50 Trudelle Street
6 Twenty Fourth Street
225 van Horne Ave.
125 Vaughan Rd
1055 & 1749 & 2265 & 3000 Victoria Park
240 Wellesley St. E.
2141A-2159A & 2263 & 2304 & 2460 Weston Road
63 & 120 Widdicombe Hill Blvd.
939-941 Wilson Ave.
35 & 45 Wynford Heights.
10185 Yonge Street
1244 and 1254 York Mills Road