PHOTO: VIRGINIA WOOLF/STUFF A renters’ advocacy group says it is “appalled” by Property Brokers’ discouraging landlords from offering rent holidays.
A nationwide property management company is actively discouraging landlords from offering rent holidays to struggling tenants during the Covid-19 shutdown.
On its website and in emails to landlords, Property Brokers says tenants should instead be encouraged to seek government help or offered grocery vouchers or assistance with utilities bills.
That’s appalled a renters’ advocacy group, who says it’s far from the ‘kind’ approach the government is encouraging people to take right now.
In its Covid-19 Alert Plan on its website Property Brokers acknowledges that many landlords have approached it wanting to reduce rental payments or offer rental holidays.
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