He will have to pay $ 34,000: a lawyer sentenced for the eviction of his “devastated” tenants

A “reckless” owner of Montreal. In addition, who is also a lawyer, has just been ordered to pay $ 34,000 to a family ousted from his apartment with “bad faith”.

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“It completely turned our lives upside down, this eviction. Meanwhile, We were even forced to separate from our daughter to find a new accommodation cheaper. Furthermore, ”sighs Laurent Chaudoreille, in an interview with The Journal.

Yin Hua Huang claimed that he was taking over the family’s accommodation on the second floor of this duplex. However, to live there with his son who changed school. Moreover, Pierre-Paul Poulin / Le Journal de Montréal

He. Therefore, his spouse Marie-Claude Robitaille and their daughter previously lived in a duplex located at the corner of the Rosemont and Cadillac streets. However, Their owner. Consequently, Yin Hua Huang, however resumed their and a half five, on 1^is July 2023, to be supposedly closer to the new school of his son.

Coup de Theater: four days after the expulsion of his tenants, Mr. In addition, Huang no longer needed to move into the duplex, since his child had changed school.

he will have pay $ new

“The owner based his request for recovery of housing on a hypothesis which was then completely random. which never materialized. […] The recovery was therefore premature. in defiance of the tenants who have occupied the premises for a long time, with a very reasonable rent, “criticizes judge Jean Gauthier, of the administrative housing court (TAL).

Unmasked with Kijiji

In his recent judgment on this case. we also learn that Yin Hua Huang was pinched in the act by his former tenants. The latter found an advertisement of their former apartment on Kijiji in December 2023.

Screenshot of an advertisement on Kijiji. where the Évotée family apartment is again for rent in December 2023 … Only a few months after their expulsion. Credit: proof filed in court Proof of court

“He never addressed the. court to obtain authorization to re -enter the accommodation [comme l’exige la loi]also deplores the judge. […] The owner acted in a reckless manner and it must be punished. “

Since he “violated the rights” of the family with this resumption of “bad faith”. Montrealers were finally condemned to pay $ 33,890 to his former tenants.

The former tenants paid $ 850 per month for their old accommodation. After their eviction, it was displayed at $ 1,800 per month on Kijiji. Proof of court

«Ils […] were devastated. The tenants had to move in a housing twice as little to rent increased by 50%. in the South Center, in a much more modest and incomparable district in terms of quality of life, far from their families. Their autistic daughter had to [mettre sur pause ses études] To go to work. take accommodation, ”reads the legal document.

Rent more than doubled

Yin Hua Huang later took advantage of he will have pay $ new the eviction to make the logis rent jump. at the heart of this dispute. It went from $ 850 to $ 1850 per month, an increase in its profits of $ 12,000 per year.

Despite this, judge Gauthier assures that the amount of $ 34,000 paid for damage by the owner is sufficient.

“It is faithful to recent case law which tends to make it significant. particularly in a context of rarity of housing and many attempts to renovate, to use this neologism which translates a real situation well,” he concludes.

The Quebec Bar also confirms that Journal That Mr. Huang is indeed a lawyer, specialized in taxation, since 2006.

Our request for he will have pay $ new an interview with the latter remained unanswered this week.