Editor:
I read the above letter in the NOW online and said some bad words as I toss something across the room.
As if we renters don’t get treated poorly enough by sleazy landlords and entitled homeowners who bought their houses for pennies in the 1980s – now we have to listen to this clown whine that his poor friends and family have to walk a little bit because someone else parked in front of their house.
I’m fed up.
I’m fed up because renters do pay city property taxes – we pay them for the people who own the homes where we rent space. My landlord has even told me that. He rents out two spaces in renovated basements suites and uses the money to cover his property taxes and fill his retirement fund.
I should add that these suites are illegal rentals because my filthy rich landlord is too cheap to take the extra steps and money to just get his suites legalized.
And, after all of that, he refuses to let me park in the driveway because he wants to keep that clear from his friends and family if they drop by. So I have to park on the street – a place where I get hassled by other entitled neighbours who don’t want me to park in front of their homes.
Most of the homeowners are at least 50 years old and bought their houses, as I said, when prices were hundreds of thousands of dollars less. Maybe in $1 million in some cases.
I just wish one of these people would recognize how hard young people have it now and leave us along. Meanwhile, I’ll park wherever I damn well please.
T. Wilby, Burnaby
