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说一个被主流报纸重点报道的“地狱租客”。这位租客的名字是：Nina Willis。
说一个被主流报纸重点报道的“地狱租客”。
这位租客的名字是：Nina Willis， 她租住在世嘉堡，房东委员会已经下了驱逐令，但是，Nina Willis 可是个职业租客，就是说，即使面临被驱逐的命运，对于那些职业租客来说，也仍然有空隙可钻。
这二次驱逐令，要求Nina Willis按时将房租交齐，或者搬出她的租住屋。就是说，Nina还有选择，如果愿意将房租交齐，还可以不搬走。但 就是这样一个宽容的决定，Nina也不满意，她向“安省房东及房客委员会”提出诉求，反对委员会发出的驱逐令。反正，她的最终目的是：不用交房租，还住着 房东的房子。
这已经不是她第一次将法律玩弄于股掌了。房东委员会最初的判决其实是真正意义上的驱逐命令：要求她在今年3月前搬出租住屋，没有其它选择。
她随后就开始申诉，结果换来第二次有选择的驱逐令。只要房客不服判决，上诉陈情，先不说最终结果如何，至少，租客就可以拖延被驱逐出去的日期，同时可以逃避付房租，有时候，这个进程可以长达几个月。
对职业租客来说，拖延时间是另外一个不交房租的好办法。Nina Willis 用这个拖延法已经骗了前边的几任房东，从2005年开始被第一个房东因拖欠房租而诉诸法庭，每一任房东，都要和她在法庭上见。
这些小地主，被Nina拖着走完全部诉讼过程。最后虽然将她驱逐出去，房东们损失的可不是几个月的房租，还有大量的时间，精力，和对人性的失望。
而2014年的这位受害房东，是Nina Willis的第7次行骗受害者。
每个房东都不愿意遇到恶租客，多数租客都是好租客，那些从第一天开始就准备将房东们剥削的体无完肤的地狱租客们并不多见。而他们之所以得逞，其实都有共同的特点。
拿这个Nina Willis 举例：几乎被她欺骗的所有房东们都承认，她和房东们初次见面时所流露出的一切行为举止，与她后来的表现反差如此强烈，她可以获得奥斯卡表演奖。
坏租客的共同特点是：初次见面，都表现的异乎寻常的友善。他们看上去非常礼貌，高贵，永远保持和颜悦色。
他们都会向房东们表示，他们会像对待自己的物业那样，照顾好租住的物业。按时交房租，更不是问题。
他们愿意摆出弱者姿势，谦卑，害羞，让房东们起恻隐之心，并且愿意相信，这样害羞的人不会与人对簿公堂。
甚至，他们可以伪造信用报告，将自己的信用分数提高，来骗取信任。所以，这里加一句：看租客的信用记录，要有整份报告，而不仅仅是第一页的信用分数。
一旦这些租客将房东说服，拿到出租屋的钥匙，他们就开始了变脸绝活。
加拿大各省的房东们曾经提出，建立一个政府登记系统，把那些恶意拖欠房租的租客拉上黑名单，这样，即使房东们不假经纪之手，自己找租客，也可以上网查询此人。
至少，这名叫Nina Willis 的租客，您这回是记住了吧？
http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2...t_nina_willis_battling_with_new_landlord.html
Nina Willis is facing eviction, again. The Toronto tenant, who has a long history of failing to pay her rent and dragging her landlords to court, has been ordered to leave the two-storey Scarborough area property she has rented for more than a year.
As with each of her previous evictions — this case is the seventh the Star has documented dating back to 2005 — privacy legislation means her tactics and rental history will be kept secret from current or prospective landlords.
Willis is appealing a January 2014 ruling from the provincially funded Landlord and Tenant Board, instructing her to clear out for failing to pay her full rent, or pay on time. The board ordered her to leave by March. Because she appealed, as she has done in each previous case, her eviction is put on hold pending the outcome of the hearing.
Willis did not respond to emails asking for comment, or a letter left at the rental property. Her landlord, through his real estate agent, declined to comment.
In 2012, the Star reported that Willis has been ordered out of at least six houses since 2005, according to tribunal and court documents obtained by the Star, as well as interviews with landlords, lawyers and paralegals.
Board hearings are open to the public, but unlike cases before the courts, the record of a tenant’s appearances cannot be accessed, and the tribunal won’t comment on, or release information about, a tenant’s history. Provincial privacy legislation means the board has the option simply to confirm or deny if records exist, if those records contain information that could be considered an unjustified invasion of personal privacy.
Prior to 2003, rental information was released for a fee. But that stopped, in part, after broad requests for files were rejected and then appealed before the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC).
A board spokesperson explained they now adhere to an “approach set out in a decision” from the IPC, where an adjudicator determined that the release of the information in the files — including names, addresses, marital status, sex and financial history — would violate a person’s privacy.
The files do become part of public court records if a tenant or landlord appeal a decision made by the board, which is how the Star pieced together Willis’ record and learned about her current eviction order.
When Willis first meets a landlord she seems like an ideal tenant, according to former landlords. She is friendly and outgoing and rents homes in need of minor repairs, often with the promise she and her family will fix the place up.
Once inside she often stops paying, or pays late. When she is taken to the tenant board she complains about the state of the house — which according to renting rules can result in an abatement of rent — and makes allegations of discrimination and harassment.
If ordered out, she appeals, and takes her case to a division of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, which results in a stay of the eviction. A date for her current appeal has not been set.
At her current address, Willis and Christopher Lancelotte, who has rented before with Willis, verbally agreed to pay $1,600 a month for the house, starting in late 2012, according to tribunal documents. They paid for two months and provided a rent deposit of $1,600.
That was the last time the rent was paid in full, or on time, and from August 2013 through November 2013 no rent was paid, the documents showed. Prior to the hearing they paid the board $3,200 in trust, which was later given to the landlord.
Willis and Lancelotte told the tribunal the landlord’s agent was late collecting the rent, and they withheld money because of maintenance issues and utility bills. They also blamed car troubles, a vacation and issues at their bank.
The landlord was ordered to make repairs, after a list of maintenance issues was reviewed by the Property Standards Committee, in Scarborough. An appeal of the order, written by the landlord’s former lawyer, details allegations that Willis and a fellow tenant deliberately caused the damage, including holes in the ceiling. Willis was “asking for significant amounts of money in compensation” from the landlord, and had changed the locks and stopped the landlord from entering to assess potential damage, the lawyer wrote in letter to the committee.
In February 2012, Willis was convicted of two counts of obstructing her previous landlord’s right to enter the unit and one count of changing the lock without her landlord’s consent and was ordered to pay $2,750. The charges were laid by the enforcement and investigations arm of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
Willis is also awaiting the outcome of a case heard in small claims court. Her last landlord is trying to recover money for damage he alleges she did to his rental home. A judgment is expected in June.
She has also been charged with fraud by Toronto police, allegedly for providing fake employment information and bad cheques. Her court date to address the criminal charges is scheduled for late 2014.
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