Students must fork over $8,000 after “shocking” damage to a rented house in Antigonish, the location of St. Francis Xavier University.
,” with some 15 student tenants coming and going over a two-year period.in 1978,” wrote Judge Raffi Balmanoukian of Nova Scotia Small Claims Court.
“Missing from that classic perhaps is a storyline in which the homeowner and inhabitants confront each other about the state of the dwelling in which much of the action takes place. If such a scene there had been, I expect it would have looked something like this dispute.”“A bit dirty is a mastery of understatement,” he wrote. “One might equally call the Battle of Ortona a bit of a dust-up.
Among the damage were holes punched in drywall, doors knocked off hinges, “cotton glued to the ceiling” and a trash-filled garage including an empty beer keg. “The house needed to be cleaned not once but twice and painted inside top to bottom,” said the Court..Students paid $4,200 a month in rent with a $2,100 security deposit and one testified they left the property “a bit dirty.”It was “something of a Grand Central Station for all and sundry.”
The landlord’s bills included $19,911 to replace siding, $3,951 for construction supplies including drywall, $2,613 for new windows, $1,812 for painting, and $2,199 to hire cleaners.
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