"Please make the necessary efforts to ensure your unit remains in a habitable condition.
"They're frustrated they can't rent it out," Roberts said, noting at least three prospective tenants have tried living in the unventilated space since he moved there in May of 2018.Īccording to an August 29 email obtained by CBC News, Christopher Maclean, the property administrator at 75 Ann Street, complained that prospective tenants had "expressed concerns about the condition of the unit." Christopher Maclean, property administrator at The Marq Ensure your unit remains in habitable condition. He said after a number of unsuccessful showings by the landlord, he and the other tenants were blamed for no-one wanting to rent the windowless bedroom and were threatened with having to pay for the landlord's lost income. Roberts said he pays $635 a month for a bedroom with a window and that his landlord has been trying to rent a vacant, windowless bedroom inside his unit since August. Tenants open their individual bedrooms with their respective fob keys, which also give them access to the main door of the building and the unit's shared spaces. The units at 75 Ann Street appear to be a retrofitted to allow up to four tenants to share a living room, kitchen, two bathrooms and a storage space in what was once a larger unit with only two bedrooms. 'A company like Centurion could do better'ĭuration 0:53 Jeremy Roberts: 'I would think a company like Centurion could do better.' Windowless bedrooms are illegal in Ontario and are not considered fit for human habitation due to a lack of proper ventilation and natural light. London landlord under investigation for renting 'windowless, closetless box' to student The company is currently the subject of a property standards investigation by the City of London after complaints surfaced it was renting illegal windowless apartments for hundreds of dollars a month inside its 75 Ann Street highrise. The retrofitted apartment building is marketed toward post-secondary students by Centurion Property Associates, a multi-million dollar company that owns dozens of rental buildings across Ontario, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Roberts is a Western University student who rents a one-bedroom apartment at 75 Ann Street, a downtown London highrise known as The Marq.
Jeremy Roberts said he was told he would have to pay for the landlord's lost income even though the bedroom in question was considered unfit for human habitation under provincial law. A tenant of a troubled downtown London highrise said he and others were blamed and threatened by their landlord after no one wanted to rent a vacant illegal bedroom inside their apartment unit.
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