Ontario landlord says tenant won’t leave: "We need to occupy the house"

A Brampton, Ont. woman and her husband say they’re out more than $22,000 in unpaid rent and can’t occupy their only home because a tenant has refused to leave since he was asked to move.

“We need to occupy the house,” said Yvonne Folkes, describing months of frustration attempting to get access to her home again.

Folkes and her husband rented out the semi-detached Brampton home, their principal residence, to Hermann Founiapte Dakono for about $3,200 a month. She described him as a “good tenant” until she says he refused to move out and abruptly stopped paying rent or paying for some utilities as required.

Folkes and her husband had been living temporarily at another nearby home with other family members and the rent was being applied to their monthly mortgage payments, she said.

Global's Sean O'Shea reports.

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