The 24-year-old owner, who happily exposes his renovations and his real estate assets on social networks, was found guilty of evicting a single mother from her apartment in Moscow “in bad faith.”
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“I hope the verdict will teach her a lesson, she will never do this to a tenant again. It was really trying, stressful and hard to live with,” he said. Register Marie-Elaine Boucher.
This single mother of a 12-year-old daughter received a housing notice in December 2020 from her former landlord, Marianne Garbeil d’Morse. This nurse by training said that at that time, she would be returning to her unit in Mascouche to live there.
“The owner explains that he did not finally move to the ground floor because he and his wife separated and they had to move in together,” Judge Lucy Beliveau wrote in her ruling last month at the Administrative Housing Tribunal (TAL). .
According to the judge, there is no credibility
Marie-Elaine Boucher first told the court that her sister had seen new residents move into her old apartment on rue Croissant des Cayes-Bleus in June 2021. In previous weeks, Marianne Corbeil D’amours had also updated the unit at the center of the controversy.
“The second apartment that I renovated with my toolbox,” the young woman posted on her Instagram account on June 21, 2021, showing photos of her work.
Marianne Corbeil D’amours shared on Instagram, July 21, 2021, how she renovated her home after Marie-Elaine Boucher’s eviction.
Photo taken from the Instagram account of marianne_corbeil_damours
“Without my sister, I would never have known,” sighs the 47-year-old mother over the phone. In August 2021, Marion Garbeil served formal notice to D’Morse for “bad faith recovery.”
The judge did not believe the owner’s version. However, he held that the tenant’s testimony was “convincing, honest and reliable”.
“The ex-husband said his relationship with the owner was not good for four to six months. […] The owner must have suspected that there was a strong possibility that her wife would not live with him. If it was an essential condition of her action, she should have told the tenant about it,” notes Honorable Lucy Beliveau.
She has to pay
For all of these reasons, TAL ultimately ordered Marion Garbeil D’Morse to pay her former tenant nearly $5,000 in damages as a result of this recovery.
“The situation was very difficult for her, especially during an epidemic. She cried and had panic attacks. She was already in poor health with Crohn’s disease. […]Her mental condition has become so debilitating that she was placed on sick leave on September 7, 2021 and has yet to return to work until March 15, 2022”, we can read in the court document?
Photo of building owned by Marianne Corbeil D’amours in Mascouche. In this release, he presents his renovation plans.
Photo taken from the Instagram account of marianne_corbeil_damours
However, Marie-Elaine Boucher insists that her greatest success is not money.
“I am very happy to have won my case before a judge who agreed with me. If I can inspire other tenants who have been repossessed in bad faith, that would be great,” he concludes.
Our request for an interview with Marion Garbeil D’Morse had not been responded to at the time of publication.
To read the TAL’s decision on this case, please refer to the document below:
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