Roncea v Leung
Tenant wins · Toronto · 2022-02-16
- Adjudicator
- Anita Lovrich
- Dispute
- Illegal Collection of Money
- Amount
- $5-10K
- Landlord
- A.L.
- Tenant
- A.R.
- Landlord rep
- Iris Selimi
- Tenant rep
- George Brown
What happened
Tenant applied for an order determining that Landlord has collected or retained money illegally. The Tenant prepaid 10.5 months of rent, which the Landlord argued was a voluntary prepayment, while the Tenant argued it was an illegal security deposit.
The ruling
The Landlord must pay the Tenant $7,680 for the prepaid rent for May-July 2020, and $34.56 for interest on the last month's rent deposit, as the Landlord unreasonably refused to consent to the Tenant's request to assign the remainder of the lease.