Too explicit
Today, a shocking "sex for rent" incident in Metro Vancouver quickly rushed to the hot list, and the landlord's demand for explicit sex was despicable.
Two years ago, the female shopkeeper, Jerrica Hackett, opened her business in Port Coquitlam"Good wolf" coffeeshop（good wolf cafe & co）。After painstaking management, the coffee shop's business has gradually improved and is on the right track. Since the small shop is not large, but the rent is not low, Jerika still feels a lot of pressure.
In October last year, seeing that the lease was about to expire, she wanted to talk to the landlord to see if she could reduce the rent a little, even if it was a few dozen yuan, which would be very helpful to the business. Unexpectedly, this conversation turned out to be the beginning of a nightmare.
On a Thursday in early October, the 80-year-old landlord came to the coffee shop and had a "negotiation" with her. Landlords come to their properties almost every day to "inspect".
The landlord said he could help with the rent if Jerica could help him, and then made a jaw-dropping offer.
The landlord said that the rent could be cut in half, but twice a month Jerica goes out with him, eats and dances together. After that, I will go back to the office with him for a drinkTake off all her clothes and let him see Jereka's body。It's disgusting enough, I didn't expect anything more excessive.
The landlord said that Jerica's ** made him happyHe not only wants to see, but also touchesand touch her buttocks. The landlord told Gereka that it was a good deal and would save her a lot of money.
When she heard the landlord's words, she was blindsided and didn't know how to respond at all.
Jerika only tried to end the conversation with the landlord quickly, but she knew in her heart that the landlord would look for her again.
For the rest of the week, she avoided meeting with her landlord as much as possible. Later, she plucked up the courage to record her landlord's words during the next negotiation.
Sure enough, the next week the landlord came back and asked her how she thought about her proposal. In the conversation between the two recorded by Jerika,The landlord said that the two of them could drink and chat, and he was willing to pay 200 yuan per hour.
Jerica felt unbearable that if I renewed my lease he would be in a position to dominate me. I don't know if he would unexpectedly terminate the lease or make me uncomfortable every day. ”
She decided to close the coffee shop she had worked so hard to run for two years.
On October 22 last year, she posted a notice that the café would close on the 28th.
Regular customers were surprised and puzzled by the closure, but Jerica didn't say anything about it.
She said that she did not choose to call the police at that time, but consulted legal advice, and posted the recorded ** to social ** after processing. The landlord's voice was processed and his face was not shown to ensure that there would be no infringement.
The landlord's actions forced her to temporarily suspend the coffee shop, and she suffered a lot of financial losses. After months of searching, she found a new store in Maple Ridge and was about to reopen Good Wolf Coffee.
Now, she has hired a lawyerThe landlord was formally sued in the BC Human Rights Court for damages。Jerica said there may have been other tenants who had been unduly influenced by their landlords, which is one of the reasons she filed the lawsuit, hoping that such incidents would not happen again. Several local English** attempts were made to contact the landlord and property management company involved, but received no response.
The course of this incident is described by Jerica in the complaint and **, and has not been confirmed by the court.