LeasideLife issue 18 final_LeasideLifev1 13-05-21 1:27 PM Page 1
No. 18 • June 2013
Leaside Life leasidelifenews.com
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ANDREA VILLIERS
Talbot tenants told to get out by August 31 NO RUSH SAYS PARKER By ANDREA VILLIERS ANN BOYD SKINNER outside her Talbot apartment complex, where there have been empty apartments for two years and a sign that says no vacancies.
BRED IN LEASIDE One in a series of occasional articles about famous people raised in Leaside who now live elsewhere. Stephen Harper: I grew up in a small town in Toronto…one of the great wrongs of human history was the loss of Leaside’s status as a separate incorporated municipality in the amalgamation of 1967. Page 12
Ann Boyd Skinner, a 20-year tenant in the Talbot apartments on Bayview Ave., hadn’t expected an eviction notice, although she had suspected “there was something strange going on with so many empty apartments”. None had been rented over the past two years and until recently there was a No Vacancy sign in front of the buildings. There are 97 apartments and 19 coach houses in the three-building complex. Then on Friday, April 26, Skinner and all other tenants received their rental increase forms, Skinner’s going up 2.5 percent as of August 31. She felt more at ease. But the following Monday, April 29, the superintendent knocked on her door bearing an eviction notice from HPI Realty Management Inc., agents for Kelvingrove Investment Corporation. She and all other tenants, except those living in the coach houses, have been told to be out by August 31 so the complex can be renovated. TALBOT, Page 4