Saturday July 17, 2004
I've been gnawing on the possibility of taking one more step toward reopening my Tenant Application About Maintenance at the ORHT. [I really do have trouble with the title of the form because in my case the issue was/is Lack Of Maintenance - I mean why would you complain about Maintenance anyway?]
One of my stumbling blocks was that requesting a Review of the Order may result in the termination of the tenancy within it being reversed as well. This would mean I'd owe rent on the apartment for August 1st, since the termination date was stipulated as July 31. I've already paid rent for August in Ottawa. [Time for official requests to the Tribunal was short, what with the one month 'notice' period that I'd be needing a new place and the Tribunal's estimated 2 week turnaround time for a response.]
Then I recalled that I have an earlier Order in which the landlord (previous to this one) agreed to allow me to give 2 weeks' notice to terminate. I'm sure they hoped I'd take them up on that sooner :-)
So today, in true CYA form, I called to arrange to go to the landlord's (secure) apartment building to deliver my notice, a copy of the previous Order for his information and get him to sign the two copies of an Agreement To Terminate A Tenancy I'd prepared. On the phone he flat out refused to sign the forms, saying the Order had already terminated the tenancy. I informed him that I was attempting to have my application reopened and wanted to end the tenancy this way as well.
Intuition had (sort of) prepared me for something uncomfortable to transpire and I had tried to get a witness to accompany me (bad timing on my part prevented that) but I never expected a flat out refusal to sign the forms.
Huh. Well, I had to get the notice to him today or it wouldn't be within the 2 weeks' period required.
I came home (from my potential witness' place) and added a note to the orginal letter, along with a stamped, addressed envelope asking him to forward a copy of the signed Agreement to me at his earliest convenience. Then took the whole thing over to his building and left it jammed into a space on the side of his mail slot. [Which is, by the way a perfectly acceptable way to deliver things according to the Tribunal's rules.]
On the phone I told him I'd probably have to talk to a lawyer about his refusal to sign the forms. And I guess that's what I'll be doing. I'm still puzzled by stuff like this though.
Back to plotting the move to Ottawa.
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