Tenants question sale of B.C. home to landlord’s daughters [Video]

Ashley Dickey and her mother rented part of the same Coquitlam duplex in three different decades under three different landlords.

She says they lived there for 14 years and never wanted to leave.

“We’ve moved, I don’t know, like 20 times in my life,” Dickey said. “This is the first place we’ve actually stayed for that long of a time … Out of anywhere we’ve lived, we considered it our home.”

Earlier this year, however, they were forced to move, becoming some of the most recent victims of what tenant advocates have called “an epidemic” of evictions for landlord’s use of property in B.C. 

A month after finding a new place to live, and two months after losing at a hearing with an arbitrator from the province’s Residential Tenancy Branch, Dickey still questions the circumstances surrounding her eviction.

‘Rent is doubled to keep up’

Dickey said she had “a pretty good relationship” with her landlord before the eviction process began. She said she communicated primarily with the …