Tenants are evicted — let the lease inquiries begin

Having evicted the tenants from the property known as the Talbot apartments on Bayview Ave., the management company has now posted signs inviting leasing inquiries. The last two tenants of the 1939 buildings struck a deal with the Manitoba government-owned company that has been trying to evict them. As readers of The South Bayview Bulldog will know, the holding company, ADMNS Kelvingrove, told all tenants in April that they had to get out so it could renovate the apartments. As posted earlier, this action seemed at the time — and it still seems — like a device to get long-time tenants paying lower rents out of the units so that they could be upgraded for new better-heeled tenants. The management company employed by ADMNS Kelvingrove,  HPI Realty Management, 21 St.Clair East, is inviting leasing inquiries. HPI, which also is known as High Peak, boasts on its website that it is known for a “pragmatic approach to problem solving.”  No doubt.  It’s an approach deeply appreciated we daresay by its ultimate superior in this matter, the Civil Service Superannuation Board of Manitoba, a pension fund ultimately answerable to the NDP government of the province.