The Fox "News" coverage of the story is highly sensationalized and leaves out many of the details which lead to the Tribunal's ruling that the landlord was not respecting the reasonable requests of his tenants not to show the flat during prayer times and to allow sufficient notice.  

Here is an excerpt from a friend & newbie "flipper" Beth Franken who is documenting her journey through her rehab/flip for Tribune newspapers, "No doubt I wonder what the heck did I get myself into sometimes.

It will land you a visit to the LTB tribunal, you'll have to pay it back plus a fine.Prepaid rent ahead of time is a different story though.

Just had one of the bloodiest weekends in years for murders.Article in the Tribune just this week: More than 30 shot, 6 fatally, in most violent weekend of 2018

A recent editorial in the Star Tribune written by Owen Duckworth of the Alliance for Metropolitan Stability regarding evictions in MN ended his piece by writing, "And to cure chronic housing inequity, we need systemic changes that put power and ownership in the hands of tenants, not private landlords." 

Here's an article taken from The Chicago Tribune.

We know that many of you bring significant expertise and experience that will help us craft the best policy possible for our city.While I can't find anything on the city's website about this proposed Renter's Protection Ordinance, I did find a Star Tribune story that gives a little detail on what is being proposed-Does anyone have details on this?

The law exists to protect the public from predatory behavior, not to prevent them from voicing their experience or opinion.The Virginia Supreme Court defines the "practice of law" as: One is deemed to be practicing law whenever.(1) One undertakes for compensation, direct or indirect, to advise another not his regular employer, in any matter involving the application of legal principles to facts or purposes or desires.(2) One, other than as a regular employee acting for his employer, undertakes, with or without compensation, to prepare for another legal instruments of any character, other than notices or contract incident to regular course of conducting a licensed business(3) One undertakes, with or without compensation, to represent the interest of another before [a tribunal, as hereinafter defined in UPC 1-1,] otherwise than in the presentation of facts, figures, or factual conclusions, as distinguished from legal conclusions, by an employee regularly Ö employed on a salary basis, or by one specially employed as an expert in respect to such facts and figures when such presentation by such employee or expert does not involve the examination of witnesses or preparation of pleadings.Virginia UPL Opinion 48. http://www.vsb.org/site/regulation/virginia-upl-opinion-48So, don't advise people on the law for money, don't prepare legal documents and don't attempt to represent people in courts or tribunals in Virginia without a license and you're not breaking any laws.Indeed, the very purpose of this community is to advise each other.

there was a huge front page article in Minneapolis Star-tribune about a landlord that raised the rent on his apartments in one building $125.00 a month, and how Minneapolis inner city is running out of affordable housing in the lower income are spots.

Landlords in Quebec have to disclose the previous rent and you can be forced to give it to them.It is very difficult to raise rents year over year in Québec, there is a formula provided by the housing tribunal that you have to use in order to justify your rent increase.