A tenant who told her former landlord that she made $120,000 a year as an online content creator is scheduled to appear before Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board next month on charges that she hasn’t paid rent to her current landlord for nearly a year.

Ramanjeet Singh is the second landlord to seek an eviction order against a woman since 2023. She paid the first and last month’s rent deposit and moved out.Brampton townhouse in April 2025. BSince then, he says, she hasn’t made any further payments and refuses to leave the house.

Singh said the tenant owed more than $23,000 in unpaid rent and utilities, on top of which he had to pay the mortgage on the townhouse and cover living expenses for his family.

“I can’t sleep at night and it’s affecting my health,” he told CBC Toronto. “I don’t know how to feed my children.”

CBC Toronto is not identifying the woman as she was unable to be reached for comment after knocking on her door and attempting to reach her by phone.

In Ontario, landlords cannot evict tenants. Only the Landlord and Tenant Committee can do that. Singh applied for an eviction order to the LTB in September. The LTB can also order the woman to pay the overdue rent and evict her.

A public hearing is currently scheduled for April 9th. But all the while, Singh continued to rack up financially devastating payments on rental properties, an experiment he said he never wanted to undertake.

“I’m going to sell it,” he said. “It was a terrible experience for me. I don’t think I’ll ever rent it to anyone again.”

It’s not the first time tenants have faced eviction orders.

This is not the first time the woman has faced an eviction order.

In April 2023, Tim Lai rented a furnished two-bedroom condo in downtown Toronto to a woman for about $4,500 a month.

He says he hired a real estate agent to vet her, but in retrospect, he wishes he had looked into her employment and rental history himself.

According to LTB documents, she paid him a three-month security deposit, but the rent check never arrived after the first month.

When Lai approached her for an explanation, he said, he was told she had lost her job.

After three months of unpaid rent, Lai told CBC Toronto that she applied for an eviction order with the LTB and a hearing was set for April 18, 2024. According to the LTB case summary, the woman asked for a postponement because she was “four months pregnant and is not physically or mentally healthy,” but the request was denied.

She also claimed that her legal representative was ill and unable to attend on the day, but this statement was found to be false, according to the LTB ruling. Lai said the eviction order was issued on May 26, but by then the woman had moved out.

The LTB agreed that Lai owed $59,000 in back rent and ordered the woman to pay $35,000, the maximum amount allowed by the court.

But Lai said he believes the woman will never see that money again, not to mention the $30,000 she said she spent in damaging the room and stealing furniture.

According to the Ontario Court of Justice website, landlords who owe money from tenants can ask the LTB to help them recover it by filling out an L10 form (also known as an “Application to Recover Money Omitted by a Former Tenant”).

“There is no hope of recovering a single penny,” Lai said. “What’s important at this point is to hold her accountable.”

Both Singh and Rai said they should have looked into the woman’s background more carefully before lending to her.

Lawyers say they will use specialized judges.

Ajay Grewal, a lawyer who specializes in representing landlords and a former LTB judge, points new landlords to specialized vetting agencies that can investigate a prospective tenant’s background before signing a lease.

He also suggests resources like the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) can be helpful. provides a free, searchable database of past and current court cases; or open rooma resource that tracks LTB judgments made against both tenants and landlords.

The LTB does not track tenants who have been evicted or owed money as a result of past court decisions, but Grewal warns that bad tenants could become a growing phenomenon.

“In my experience, many landlords have chosen to exit rental altogether and instead put their money into more secure investments,” he says.

As the supply of rental housing dwindles, renters may become desperate and turn to unconventional ways to save money, he said.

“There are some bad actors… They can probably afford to pay rent, but they choose not to because they know it will take months to evict them.”

As of September 2025, the LTB case backlog had fallen to 36,689 from a peak of more than 53,000 in early 2024, according to the Ontario Court of Justice.

Despite the cuts, average waiting times for hearings are still between three and seven months, with some urgent cases taking less time.