{"id":6778,"date":"2020-04-01T11:26:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2020\/04\/01\/as-rent-day-arrives-landlords-roll-out-support-plans-with-some-charging-interest\/"},"modified":"2020-04-01T11:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:26:18","slug":"as-rent-day-arrives-landlords-roll-out-support-plans-with-some-charging-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2020\/04\/01\/as-rent-day-arrives-landlords-roll-out-support-plans-with-some-charging-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"As rent day arrives, landlords roll out \u2018support\u2019 plans \u2014 with some charging interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content continued<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Timbercreek Asset Management is working with residential tenants on a \u201ccase-by-case basis\u201d to offer rent deferrals or repayment plans specifically for those who might not have the financial resources to pay their rent on April 1. Many of Timbercreek\u2019s buildings in Toronto and Ottawa comprise low-income housing units.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">\u201cOur focus is to keep people in their home,\u201d said Timbercreek spokesperson Colleen Krempulec in an emailed statement. \u201cThe Timbercreek team, alongside several other rental-housing providers are in contact with all levels of government and will continue to work together to identify additional initiatives to further support our residents,\u201d the statement added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Calgary-based Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust, which rents units to more than 60,000 residents mostly in Alberta, told the Post that they would be offering a \u201cmutually beneficial resolution\u201d to tenants who have either had a reduction in hours or been unemployed due to COVID-19, though no detail was provided as to what those resolutions might look like and whether they consist of rent deferment or rent forgiveness altogether.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Some individual landlords too, appear to be offering a form of rent relief to tenants who need it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Celine Ng, who owns two one-bedroom condo units in downtown Toronto said she has offered a 50 per cent discount to one of her tenants who recently had to take a significant pay cut due to the COVID-19 crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">\u201cI can afford to do that, and he\u2019s a great tenant, who has always paid everything on time and kept the place well. So if I can help, I will,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/financialpost.com\/real-estate\/property-post\/as-rent-day-arrives-landlords-roll-out-support-plans-with-some-charging-interest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article content continued Timbercreek Asset Management is working with residential tenants on a \u201ccase-by-case basis\u201d to offer rent deferrals or repayment plans specifically for those who might not have the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/6779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}