Professional Tenants Need To Pay Or They’re Going To The Big House
From the archive. Written in 2014. Laws, figures and links may have changed since. For current Ontario rules, see what changed for Ontario landlords in 2026.
Last month…we talked about Susan and Chris Perret, the notoriously terrible tenants who have been professionally squeezing a bunch of B.C. landlords.
On April 28, a judge in Port Coquitlam small claims court ordered Susan and Chris Perret to repay $6,000 to former landlord Suman Parasad by June 9, or go to jail.
Parasad was the first landlord to take the Perrets to small claims court over unpaid rent, claiming the pair racked up almost $8,000 in arrears in 2013.
Two more landlords have since contacted the CBC to say they have been the victim of the Perrets’ apparent scam. That’s a grand total of eight landlords who are now working together to fight back as a group.