Admiral Beez
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Jeez, meanwhile I haven’t left my porch or backyard other than to walk the dog, buy groceries or to undertake solo motorcycle or bicycle rides for months.
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SunriseChampion
Senior Member
See, my landlord is way more desperate...the price on the unit I want to move up to is 200 dollars less than it would have been a year ago and is even about 100 dollars less than it would have been two years ago...and it's still not the only one here that's been reduced this much and is just sitting empty. I'm trying to get another 100-150 discount.
I'm kind of vexed because I got in here right at the peak of their pricing here and am paying maximum dollar per unit of space. More than I would in the bigger unit at their original price of a year ago.
It's ridiculous. Now's my chance, and it's a unit layout I used to live in here back in the day and on a higher floor so a bit less noise from the ruined lakefront and slightly less particulate matter and more sunset view...and I help the landlord.
You're trying to upgrade as well?
Northern Light
Superstar
Nope.
But I keep track of these things...........
As you might expect..........my tentacles are everywhere.........
LOL
SunriseChampion
Senior Member
Tentacle yourself into my landlord's Davisville head office and teach them basic maths. Kthxbye.
See that, I'm derailing a thread again....I even originally related it to the plague and now we're on tentacles.
Bruh.....
Keeping it real since 1985. ?
Admiral Beez
Superstar
If I was your landlord I’d acquiesce to your demands, for now. Once the market corrects itself I’d evict your arse as soon as I was able. Covid19 is going to bring out the opportunistic d#cks in many the buyer and seller. But not all, some will remember both their vendors and customers for not seeking leverage from Covid19.
TheKingEast
Senior Member
Some landlords are not desperate and in today’s climate of rent control, you have to think even harder about taking less money.
It’s not about just taking any offer. Tenants are playing a dangerous game here but they have all the leverage so please no more complaining about landlords being greedy.
It’s not about just taking any offer. Tenants are playing a dangerous game here but they have all the leverage so please no more complaining about landlords being greedy.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Some landlords could offer a "rebate" on the full rent, during the year or two. Once the COVID-19 is over, they would have to pay the full rent.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Why? Unless the landlords costs (mortgage, utilities, property tax, maintenance) are also somehow canceled or deferred.
Unless we cancel out the property costs, the landlord may go bankrupt while the tenant lives off their $2,000 a month Tru'Dough.
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Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Because of rent control, any rent increases will be on the "new" price. With a "rebate", the rent increases will be on the full rent without the "rebate".
AlbertC
Superstar
'Deeply disturbing' military report on conditions in Ontario nursing homes released
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
TORONTO -- A Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) report released on Tuesday outlined the grim state of five long-term care homes in Ontario, claiming not only that there were staffing shortages and lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), but also that there were bug infestations, old food trays stacked inside resident rooms and that patients were observed “crying for help with staff not responding.”
Last month, Canadian soldiers were sent to facilities in Ontario to help staff struggling to deal with severe COVID-19 outbreaks that resulted in resident deaths.
The homes included Orchard Villa in Pickering, Altamount Care Community in Scarborough, Eatonville Care Centre in Etobicoke, Hawthorne Place in North York and Holland Christian Homes' Grace Manor in Brampton.
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
TORONTO -- A Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) report released on Tuesday outlined the grim state of five long-term care homes in Ontario, claiming not only that there were staffing shortages and lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), but also that there were bug infestations, old food trays stacked inside resident rooms and that patients were observed “crying for help with staff not responding.”
Last month, Canadian soldiers were sent to facilities in Ontario to help staff struggling to deal with severe COVID-19 outbreaks that resulted in resident deaths.
The homes included Orchard Villa in Pickering, Altamount Care Community in Scarborough, Eatonville Care Centre in Etobicoke, Hawthorne Place in North York and Holland Christian Homes' Grace Manor in Brampton.
'Gut-wrenching' military report sheds light on grim conditions in Ontario nursing homes
A military report released Tuesday shed light on the "gut-wrenching" conditions of five long-term care homes in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic.
toronto.ctvnews.ca
Northern Light
Superstar
'Deeply disturbing' military report on conditions in Ontario nursing homes released
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
TORONTO -- A Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) report released on Tuesday outlined the grim state of five long-term care homes in Ontario, claiming not only that there were staffing shortages and lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), but also that there were bug infestations, old food trays stacked inside resident rooms and that patients were observed “crying for help with staff not responding.”
Last month, Canadian soldiers were sent to facilities in Ontario to help staff struggling to deal with severe COVID-19 outbreaks that resulted in resident deaths.
The homes included Orchard Villa in Pickering, Altamount Care Community in Scarborough, Eatonville Care Centre in Etobicoke, Hawthorne Place in North York and Holland Christian Homes' Grace Manor in Brampton.
'Gut-wrenching' military report sheds light on grim conditions in Ontario nursing homes
A military report released Tuesday shed light on the "gut-wrenching" conditions of five long-term care homes in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic.toronto.ctvnews.ca
First........deeply disturbing hardly covers this.
The people directly responsible for staffing, training and directing/funding the provision of care in these cases have no shame. Criminal charges really should be considered.
One thing stood out for me amongst the other allegations............staff reused syringes (without sterilization)
Gag! I don't understand on that one how staff didn't understand you couldn't do that, training be damned.
Ford wears the fact he did nothing to seriously address some of these issues in the first part of his term and in so far as he scaled back inspections, may have made it worse.
But this goes back years, and so many governments and the cabinets at their helm need to account for not doing better, sooner.
Link below to the Auditor General's report into infection control issues in Ontario's Long Term Care homes..........from 2009! Sigh.
Towered
Superstar
Disgusting. Why was nothing done sooner? Who can be held responsible? As usual, there will be a cesspool of finger pointing, blame shifting, and diffusion of responsibility. There need to be consequences or nothing will change in the future. Shameless sociopaths who get into decision making positions in such institutions need to be made acutely aware that everything will be monitored, and punishment will be doled out mercilessly for unethical standards.
Jasmine18
Senior Member
Its not a 100% operational issue.
Its a general sense in north American culture of not wanting to take care of your parents in old age by society.
Its a general sense in north American culture of not wanting to take care of your parents in old age by society.
Northern Light
Superstar
This graph from Press Progress looks at the background/credentials of board members of for-profit LTCs.
Suggestion being the mix of qualification for overseeing a health-intensive business may not be appropriate.
Suggestion being the mix of qualification for overseeing a health-intensive business may not be appropriate.
Northern Light
Superstar
I'm not in agreement with this.
In a culture where both parents work; there simply isn't anyone home to care for an elderly parent no longer capable of independent living.
Many people are also single into their middle aged years and beyond either never having married or having divorced, and face the same issue.
Housing units also aren't large enough for this in many cases. Not everyone has a spare bedroom.
Further, the majority of those in Long Term Care have either serious mental or physical disabilities, or both.
Most homes/condos/apartments are not set up for someone with mobility challenges or who uses a wheelchair.
Indeed many live in rental housing which they couldn't alter if money were no object, as that is a landlord's prerogative.
In the case of my mother I was able to keep her in her apartment after her stroke until near the very end of her life, by insuring she had 22 hours a week of help from PSWs...
By unplugging her stove (she lost her short-term memory and could accidentally start a fire); and could pull it off, only barely, because I lived nearby, and had a job that allowed me to work from home much of the time.
Many people aren't as lucky as I am; and even then it was a real challenge at times.
My father, was paralyzed at the end, and I couldn't lift him.
Those are the folks who end up in LTC more often than not.
To suggest families can simply snap their fingers and deal is profoundly unfair to them and betrays ignorance of how people live.
You could doubtless argue for multi-generational living; but our housing isn't physically conducive to that.
Moreover, you might want to ask Italians living in the Lombardy region about whether that carries its own risks.