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A Brampton, Ont., couple is relieved to have access to their home back finally, 11 months after a tenant stopped paying his rent and utility bills soon after he was asked to move out.

“This is what I was waiting for,” said Yvonne Folkes inside her reclaimed Brampton home on Friday.

“A clean slate.”

Folkes and her husband notified the tenant in writing they wanted him to leave almost a year ago, citing their intention to move back into the home. Once they did that, he stopped paying rent and utilities — but refused to leave.

“We were at the point where we almost lost the house because we have to pay the mortgage while he’s in the house not paying rent, not paying utilities,” she told Global News.

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“It was just very hard. Financially stressful, mentally, physically, emotionally — everything,” Folkes said, describing an ordeal involving the family’s only rental property, located …

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