Salad and Jama v Greenin Oaks

Landlord wins · North York · 2022-01-17

Adjudicator

E. Patrick Shea

Dispute

Maintenance

Amount

<$5K

Landlord

G.O.

Tenant

H.S., A.J.

Landlord rep

Geoff Paine

What happened

Tenants applied for an order determining that the Landlord failed to meet its maintenance obligations under the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 or failed to comply with health, safety, housing or maintenance standards, specifically related to a bedbug infestation in the rental unit.

The ruling

The Landlord is ordered to pay the Tenants $701 representing a 10% rent abatement for the period of March to July 2020 due to the Landlord's failure to effectively address the bedbug infestation. The Tenants are authorized to recover this amount from the rent for February 2022.