I bid my number, rejected their full price counter, and recountered by agreeing to a 10% earnest deposit and bumping up my bid a few thou.

However what is not in dispute is that at some point Section 8 will stop paying so my question to all and sundry is what are you going to do if the family isn't as cooperative as the one Dave was dealing with.We had great difficulty getting through to anybody at Section 8 who could give us the definitive answer on what was supposed to happen and drew a blank when we tried searching online for the policy on deceased tenants.I actually recounted the experience incorrectly.

It does seem, based upon your recount, that how the Ontario Landlord Tenancy Board interprets and enforces the act may differ from the Rentalsman in other jurisdictions.  

Some of this is state-specific, and there are such things as "prescribed" easements, where it becomes one de facto because it's been there so long, but beyond that, running a utility system I can recount a number of times where this has been an issue, and the property owner dug up the connection at the property line, capped it, and told the neighbor to pound sand.

While unfortunately I don´t have any good input for you, I have to say that this reminds me of one of the BP podcasts; someone recounted a story where their 2 local roofing options turned out to be owned by a father and son, where they significantly overbid one price and still overbid the lower one, but in comparison the lower bid looked much more attractive.

It's not a huge success, but it's something.I've listened to three or four podcasts, and in one the speaker recounted how he had bought a foreclosure that was demolished, and negotiated with the city on the demolition cost and was able to save about 50% of the cost they were charging him.

The list of cringe moments would be too long to recount, but now I see how people say 90-95 percent of landlords are just terrible at the business of it.  

Because of this, I always brainstorm what would happen if I was dragged in front of the board to account for whatever issue I'm dealing with.In this case, if you were standing before the adjudicator, they would likely ask the tenant to recount what they were told by the technician.

I was cringing this entire thread, recounting the sob stories, angry words, and the amount of trash left over from evicted tenants.

I then recountered at 260k. 5k to at least try to get it resurfaced!!