02/04/2023
Short-term rental costs $85,000 to a co-owner
April 2, 2023 - As reported in an article by journalist Zacharie Gaudreault of the newspaper Le Devoir, a co-owner of a building located in the Griffintown district of Montreal has been sentenced by a judgment of the Superior Court of Quebec to pay more than $85,000 in penalties and extrajudicial fees for illegally renting her short-term apartment, between 2016 and 2019.
The syndicate of Co-ownership of Griffin Îlot 10 Residential, represented by lawyer Karl Michel of LJT Avocats, asked the Court to make a permanent injunction order against Ms. Lu Zhao and to condemn her to pay damages, for violation of the provision of the building's by-laws that prohibits co-owners from renting their housing on a short-term basis on websites dedicated to short-term rental, such as Airbnb....