City of Red Deer too tough on Arlington Inn tenants
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The City of Red Deer is making private landlords look like saints.
Where is the Red Deer Landlord and Tenant Service that should be sticking up for these people of the Arlington Inn?
The city is trying to get tenants out without the three-month notice that must be given for eviction of tenants with more than six months tenancy.
Remember Wedgewood Manor when the new owners tried to get people out, the city said they would help in every way they could to make sure the new owners were following the landlord and tenant provincial laws.
Have the laws changed such that the city does not have to follow the same laws as private landlords?
Now they try to give tenants a $100 increase in rent with only one-month notice.
What happened to the 90-day notice required by provincial law?
I disagree with a statement in the Advocate’s Nov. 4 story suggesting that “the Arlington has reputation as a seedy joint characterized by drinking and drug abuse.”
Some of our best city employees and councillors have and still do drink there.
Last I heard, people still go to bars to drink.
Drugs are everywhere, so I assume our top of the line hotels must be seedy too because people go there to drink and I am sure there is drug abuse there also.
I think the city should have to follow the laws of the land, just like the rest of us, and give these people a fair break.
Think of the outcry if a private landlord tried to treat people this way. That is why we have laws, to protect people from abusive landlords, such as the City Red Deer.
Terry Rollinson
Red Deer
Editor’s note: The Red Deer Landlord and Tenant Service has assisted Arlington Inn residents. As well, it’s not the City of Red Deer that has served tenants with notice of a rent increase. It’s the building’s current owner.
