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Original Article: https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/ca\/news\/general\/program-helps-mom-and-pop-real-estate-investors-struggling-to-collect-rent-pay-their-mortgages\/286786<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Landlord Credit Bureau says participants in the program have seen delinquent payments fall 36%<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TORONTO, ON \/ CMP \/ November 13, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there\u2019s one misconception about landlords<\/a>, it\u2019s that they\u2019re rich. While many do eventually make the ascension from mortal and mogul, most real estate investors own, or are still paying off, a relatively small assemblage of residential properties. With cap rates shrinking across the country, many of these investors are grateful to reach month-end without an unforeseen maintenance emergency wiping out the few hundred dollars in cash flow they rely on to make their investments worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian landlords have been dealing with a problem far more disruptive than a flooded basement: months and months of unpaid rent. For investors who depend on rent for their mortgage payments, a one-month gap can be horrifying enough. But six or seven months? Even with mortgage deferrals alleviating the immediate pressure bearing down on landlords, that amount of missed rent is going to be hard for any tenant to get caught up on \u2013 if they feel like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe challenges that small landlords are facing are significant right now,\u201d says Zac Killam, CEO of the Landlord Credit Bureau<\/a>. \u201cMany tenants have been financially impacted by COVID, so there\u2019s those legitimate cases where tenants need to go on a payment plan, which then reduces the amount that they can pay on a monthly basis, which of course impacts the smaller landlords\u2019 ability to pay their mortgage, their property taxes, their utilities, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But during the pandemic, Killam says the \u201creal threat\u201d to landlords\u2019 stability has been tenants who have taken advantage of COVID-19 eviction moratoriums to simply stop paying rent, even though their incomes have remained intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a trend, Kayla Andrade<\/a>, at Ontario Landlords Watch has seen firsthand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe negative results from these unprecedented times have only compounded the difficulty of collecting rent from the tenants who know how to abuse the system,\u201d she says. \u201cAll together, this has increased the lengthy delays for landlords seeking justice for unpaid rents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result has been a rise in real estate investors saying they no longer want to endure the hassle of landlording. Killam says he is hearing \u201con a weekly basis\u201d from members who are taking their secondary suites off the market or selling the condos they had purchased as rental properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd they\u2019re not doing this because of tenants who are legitimately impacted by COVID,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019re doing this as a result of the intentionally delinquent tenants who are just taking advantage of the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As small landlords, defined as those with five properties or less, provide more than half of the rental units in Canada, Killam worries that widespread disenchantment with fighting over rent with tenants could lead to a drop in rental supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s such a critical segment of the rental housing industry for providing and supplying the rental housing that we so desperately need,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Solution?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

With the country\u2019s landlord-tenant board tribunals proving largely ineffective at holding malicious renters accountable, Killam proposes his outfit as a possible alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once landlords have signed up with the Landlord Credit Bureau<\/a> and registered their tenants, they report each one\u2019s rent performance \u2013 paid, paid late, didn\u2019t pay \u2013 on a monthly basis. This reporting becomes a permanent record that future landlords and, most notably, credit reporting agency Equifax have access to. Renters who make their payments on time are given positive reports, which can then be used to bolster their credit scores, while those who refuse or fail to pay rent will see their scores damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renters can even receive positive reports if they pay partial rent, so long as they adhere to the alternative payment agreements signed with their landlords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want to encourage everybody to work together and come up with reasonable plans that work for the landlord and the tenant, and attach material long-term benefits to that relationship,\u201d Killam says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrade calls the LCB a \u201cgame-changer for the rental housing industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt protects good landlords, benefits good tenants and prevents bad tenants<\/a> from abusing the system,\u201d she says. \u201cTenants who want to improve or build their credit will love it. Tenants who abuse the system or have poor rent payment histories can work with their landlords or resolve issues with the current LTB system. But they know it will be reported to Landlord Credit Bureau.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Representatives from InTouch Mortgage Solutions, Equitable<\/a> Bank, and Premiere Mortgage have all gone on record with MBN <\/em>praising the LCB\u2019s potential benefits for tenants who make their payments on time. But where there\u2019s a carrot, there usually needs to be a stick. Penalizing renters for skipping their rent payments and ensuring that those penalties have a bite may be the only avenue open to increasingly desperate mom-and-pop landlords who have lost faith in their province\u2019s landlord-tenant paradigm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost of these people have big mortgages,\u201d Killam says. \u201cThey\u2019re dependent on receiving that rental income.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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