An apartment management firm, CAPREIT Limited Partnership, has had to back off on an arbitrary decision to charge tenants for the use of their window air conditioners. The company that manages an East York apartment building told tenants with the units to pay $150 (apparently an annual fee) or remove them. Some tenants did so. Others paid the money which will be refunded says CAPREIT. A East York tenant’s complaint to the CBC was raised with the Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations. The charge does not appear to be legal. “There will be no change to the status of tenant-owned air conditioning units at this time,” said a letter sent to tenants on Thursday from the management company, CAPREIT Limited Partnership.
