A10 - The Terrace Standard, Monday, December 23, 1996

Tenants at fault, too

Landlord fights b

A LOCAL landlord facing
thousands of dollars in
damage to two of his suites
says he’s tired of apartment
managers in Terrace being

unfairly labeled as slum
lords.

Charlie Meck, manager of
the  —- Terrace’ Manor

townhouses, says landlords
are often blamed for prob-
lems caused by tenants.

“I'm not saying that there
aren't some problems with
some fandiords,”’ he says,
‘But | don’t think we've
been getting a fair deal late-
ly. I want people to sce the
other side of the coin."’

Meek points to two of his
suites as examples of what
landlords sometimes have to
face. The tenants in both
suites were evicted last
week for failing to pay the
rent,

One of the townhouses has
several large holes smashed
in the walls, The front door
frame is also cracked and
broken” from apparently
being kicked-in.

“We have to take the wall
back to the studs to repair
it,” Meek says, pointing out
thal repairs will cost about
$500, '‘What ‘bugs me is
that we bent over backwards
to help this woman and ber
children and this is what
we're kefl with.””

The other suite had been
rented to the same person
for four years, The walls are
now filthy and covered with
crayon scribbles and holes,
the moldings are torn olf,
some of the windows and
doors are broken and the
linoleum has been torn up.

Meck says he was shocked

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THE TERRACE Regional
Health Care Society has a
new board but for how long
nobody knows,

That's because the society,
which runs Mills Memorial
Hospital, Terraceview
Lodge and Osbome Home,
is due to be absorbed by a
body called the Terrace and
Area Health Council.

And that council will take
over the administration of
the majority of health care
facilities and health related
services in the area.

This council already exists
but as of yet has no formal
powers,

It, other health councils
and larger regional bealth
boards were created two
years ago to decentralize
health care decision making.

But this fall the health
ministry wiped out the ma-

jority of the bodies in favour
of what it said was a more

Steamlined management
structure,
The new local health

council will have 14 mem-
bers all appointed by the
provincial government.

The current council al-
ready bas members who
also sit’ on the Terrace
Regional Health Care
Socicty board and there are
expectations that these
people will be named to the
ttew health council.

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TERRACE MANOR caretaker D

caused by tenants that he will have to repair.

oug Misfeldt examines some of the damage

by how badly the suite was
damaged.

This is pure vandalism,”
he says. ‘‘It will take about
two weeks and $3,000 to
make the repairs,”’

Meek says the owners will
likely pursue legal action
against the tenants of the
badly damaged suite. But he
says high legal cosis will
probably mean the other
tenants will get away with
the damage.

However, Helga
executive director

Kenny,
of the

Terrace Anti-Poverty Group
Society says the owners
should pursue their legal op-
tions,

“You can’t let people get
away with willfully damag-
ing property,” she says.
“Otherwise it sends the
message that it’s OK to do
this kind of thing.”

Kenny also says she’s
concerned that people on sa-
cial assistance aren’t singled
out as troublemakers.

“In this case the people
happened to be on welfare,”’

she says. ‘‘But who you are
has nothing to do with your
source of income. These
people would have done this
even if they did have jobs.”’

Kenny points out thal it’s
illegal to refuse rental to
someone based on their
source of income. But she
says this kind of experience
won't make it any easier for
welfare recipients.

“Is hard enough to find
a place to live here without
a few jerks making it bad
for everyone,” she says.

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