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I just received an anonymous tip that you can call the LTB and ask if they have any new file numbers that have been generated in your name. Apparently, you can do this long before they actually mail out any notices to you. I may try this later in the week if I have time.

Yesterday, August 31 2024, was the date indicated on my N13 notice for when the landlord wanted me to move out by. Today is the 1st of September, and I am still here. I have not received any eviction orders, and no one has stopped by asking me to leave.

I expect that the next step for the landlord will be for them to file an L2 'Application to End a Tenancy and Evict a Tenant or Collect Money' against me.

Once the landlord files the L2 against me, I expect that the Landlord and Tenant board will mail out a notice to me through regular postal mail. I believe this notice will provide me with some kind of online portal access where I can check the status of the landlord's case against me and be notified of the hearing date.

I was unable to find exact numbers and timelines, but some google searches lead me to believe that it will take several weeks just to be assigned a hearing date. Some anecdotal reports suggest that the hearing date will be least 4 months in future once it is assigned. Hearings can sometimes be adjourned (rescheduled into the future) for multiple reasons which can further extend the timeline.

At the hearing, I will contest the eviction and excoriate the landlord's obviously false pretense for requesting said eviction.

In the event that the LTB does issue an eviction order against me, I have read anecdotes that it takes on the other of weeks to months before the sheriff will actually come knocking on my door. I've also read that it takes longer to go through this process in the winter.

Someone sent me a message asking for an update on the garbage chute repairs, so I'll provide an update on what I know:

I was talking to a worker in the lobby the other day who said that the garbage chute would be working again in 'a couple weeks'. I also heard from another tenant that an order (from the city possibly?) had been given for a deadline of September 9th to fix the garbage chute. I do not have an official confirmation for any of this information.

The time is now 5:16pm, and despite altering my plans today so that I can be present for today's 'general inspection', no one has come by to perform said inspection. At least one tenant reported to me that they heard that today's inspection was cancelled. I have not heard any official communication to confirm this fact, nor do I have any information about whether today's inspection will be re-scheduled in the future.

And for completeness, here is the initial letter that was distributed on December 4, 2023 notifying us of power disruptions:

Prior to the first general inspection, management also required access to our units on December 12th, and 13th, 2023. On the day that they entered the units, they turned on one of the burners to the stove briefly (I suspect that this may have been done to apply a visibly obvious electrical load that could be observed on the newly upgraded power meters, thereby verifying their upgrade and the association with the correct apartment).

Prior to that, the first 'general inspection' that I recall was on December 14th, 2023:

Today's 'general inspection' is the third 'general inspection' in the last year, and the fourth (at least?) time that management of 250 Frederick has requested entry into our apartments. The last 'general inspection' was only a couple months ago on June 21: