I am writing in English is because I don’t have Chinese input tools installed in my office computer. Please don’t criticize me.
I live in Alberta, maybe the rules is different to BC. So my experience is just for your reference
I read your article yesterday and want to tell you about my experience to help you. I was planning to reply you in Chinese at night at home, but I didn’t because I have to take care of my baby.
I am a computer programmer, living in an apartment. I don’t know why but the landlord let me manage the whole building because he needs to live in another city. My duty is to maintain all the apartments (fix, cleaning, and lawn moving) and also collect rent fee every month and deposit it into his bank account. So I got the chance to know the native tenant about how kind or how bad how rich or how poor they are and also how the landlord and tenant fight with each other.
To help you I just tell you I and the landlord fight with the bad tenant.
About 6 months ago, A tenant’s pay check didn’t go through the bank ( Kong Tou Zhi Piao) which means he didn’t pay the rent. I give him 14 day notice to move out(In this article, every time I say I did something with the tenant is the landlord command me to do it), and warned him that if he don’t pay within 14 days, I will shut down the electric power and water(in fact I can shut down the power of a apartment only I can shutdown the water of the whole building not for a apartment). If it was not summer I will scare him by saying shutdown the heat too. Then 14 days later, I shutdown the power and he moved out at the end of that month without make any cleaning without notice me that he has gone. I call him and left message, he never call me back. Naturally I didn’t return him the security deposit(Ya Jin)
Later on the landlord talked about this tenant with me, he said he is not the worst. He have ever meet a bad tenant who didn’t pay the rent, and not going to move out. The landlord shutdown the power, and also take his apartment door off. Then the tenant use the power outlet bar with long cord connected to the power outlet in the hallway, and put a curtain on the frame of the door. The landlord came and took the power cord off the outlet once a while. Later on the landlord asked his friend who was a very robust white man scared the tenant. Later, the tenant moved out.
Don’t be afraid of the native Canadian. When you talk with gentleman be gentle, but not with such bad tenant. I heard my landlord fight with his tenant, the first thing he say is “fuck you”. Sometime tenant threat me saying will sue me to the court, when I tell my landlord, he will say: “Please let him go ahead”. Just give another example. On the 15 of a month, a tenant came to give me 30 day notice that he is going to move out 15th of next month. Normally tenant move out on the end of the month, but in the rent agreement, it didn’t say you can only moue out at then end of month. So I called the landlord, maybe he was busy on his issue and agreed. After the tenant move out, the landlord wanted me to reduce half of the rent from his security deposit. I think the tenant didn’t do anything wrong and you have agreed with her. The landlord said, “ok, please call the landlord administration ask them for suggestion”. I called the administration, they said: “If the apartment is not rent out in the next half month, then I can charge half of the rent”. I am really scared when I mail the list of charge and the check with the remaining part of her security deposit to her because she was a Japanese doing not very good job. Money was very important to her. She fight with me many times and threaten me to sue me to the court many times before she move out for other issues. I have prepared in mind that when she call me, I will say: “ please don’t talk to me, please call the police or sue me”. But she never call me at all.
Do you know what will happen if the tenant call the police if you fight with him. My tenant fight with each other, and called me. I said, please call police, I manage the building not manage your relationship. Then they called police, when police came, they know the tenants fight each other but nobody is hurt. The police can’t figure who is right who is wrong and left with doing anything. So if you fight with your tenant don’t be afraid of police.
I don’t suggest you talk with Mr San Mu. The agent or lawyer is the person who want to make simple things complex. He only try to make you confused with rules, regulations or laws, scare you and let you listen to his all kinds trainings to puzzle you. Then he can charge you the service fee. His purpose is not to help you solve your problem. The longer you spend on this issue or the more trouble you have the happier he is.
