Evictions on Fake Arrears

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According to IBISWorld, there are over 35,145 Property Management businesses in Canada as of 2025.

I’ve heard many of you share stories of the best experiences you’ve had with a property manager, and unfortunately also the bad memories.

Many of you are the property manager and have shared why you do what you do for your owners and for a tenant’s wellbeing.

Help the Openroom community identify qualities that make a property manager GREAT.

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psst, we’re treating 5 of you to coffee for sharing your time and opinions with us!

👩🏻 Top insight to share from me, Co-Founder Weiting

An Openroom SuperFan and lawyer, Marc Goldgrub, reached out last month on something that surprised me.

Some corporate landlords are filing eviction applications against tenants for rent arrears that never existed.

I didn’t know this was happening.

Marc shared that while these cases get withdrawn once the Adjudicator sees the landlord’s math doesn’t add up, tenants are still forced through months of stress, sleepless nights, and thousands of dollars in legal costs to defend themselves.

What’s concerning is that when tenants win, the LTB almost never makes landlords repay those costs. This means that it leaves families financially and emotionally traumatized by cases that never should have been filed.

One of the top reasons landlords might do this is to scare away a tenant in order to increase rent.

This is not okay.

The thing is, our legal system currently lacks real consequences.

Read more about this topic from Lawyers Marc and his partner Rachael →

Did you know?

At Openroom, when a landlord files for a case and gets dismissed, a tenant’s name will not be searchable within Public Record Search (log in required).

In similar fashion, when a tenant files for a case and they win, the tenant’s name will not be searchable either.

We are aiming to protect the great landlords and the great tenants out there. Bad actors should not, and cannot, operate at the expense of good actors.

🥰 Community Support - Thank You

Last weekend, Co-Founder Vishal and I were invited by our Openroom SuperFans, Chris and Leslie, to a FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) camp.

It was a gathering of like-minded people who are passionate about building freedom into their lives.

On the first night, I was up past midnight playing Cover Your Assets. To be honest, I haven’t stayed up late to play boardgames in a very long time. I mean, that’s 3 hours past my usual bedtime…

Leslie had scheduled me in for an early morning 9AM keynote - proof that even at FIRE camp, there’s no such thing as retiring early!

I spoke about how Co-Founder Vishal and I left the corporate world to build a company. That we’re choosing to build one grounded in integrity, community, and a mission to create lasting change.

One of the highlights was hearing lawyer guest speaker, Jamie, talk about the importance of who you trust as AI rises and world systems grow more volatile. We each have to carefully evaluate the companies and people we align with.

Huge thanks to Chris and Leslie for bringing us into such a special space to share our vision towards a transparent and connected rental ecosystem that benefits all players in the rental ecosystem.

Note: if you have an audience who could benefit from a talk on topics of entrepreneurship, women empowerment, or rental housing - please let me know. I’ve spoken at Community Housing Transformation Centre, York University’s Schulich School of Business, and Gal Pal Society.

Your feedback on what we build, what we write, and what we do matters to us.

If you ever reply back, know that I read every email and try to respond too.

Weiting Bollu
Mom, Rental Housing Provider, Rental Housing Advocate, Educator, and Openroom Co-Founder & CEO

What does my team at Openroom do?

At Openroom, we aggregate tenancy court orders across Canada, extract information from them, and put it to public use (e.g. public record search for tenant screening, rental debt reporting to Equifax, legal research for all, reduce delinquency risk while renters get to build credit).

We also educate about rental housing, provide free resources, and we advocate for a more transparent and connected rental ecosystem to support both responsible housing providers and residents.