Grimsby motel evictions

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More than a dozen residents at a Grimsby motel were ordered by their landlord to leave at noon today because the building is being shut down. The owner is blaming the eviction notice on the fire department but the residents and their lawyer say it’s a ruse to clear them out to make way for a multi million dollar development.

Chantel Farnsworth has lived in the house at the Escarpment Inn since July, she pays $1300 a month, she and a dozen other residents got this notice on Friday, telling her to leave by Monday, “it leaves me, my boyfriend and my 11 year old son homeless is what it will do.”

The notice says the inn is shutting down because of fire regulations, it hasn’t had a working fire alarm system since January, a security guard does fire watch. But property owner Olu Akinbolue told us the eviction and closure is a business decision and she wouldn’t elaborate.

The residents lawyer Lisa Ridsdill says the owner is telling her she can evict people with little notice because this is a motel.