Guest InsiderMark Tanguay This is so true. It's about keeping your word. You signed a contract. If you can't maintain the agreement, you bow out with the least harm to others possible. Life shifts all the time. Being an adult is about being as prepared as possible for those shifts, or shifting with them. If you can no longer afford where you are living, you move. If you don't, you are causing harm to others purely for your own benefit. The fellow who so intensely objected to the new Squatter's bill, which limits harm to LL's when tenant isn't keeping the contract, did this to his LL. When his life shifted and he refused to shift with it. And now he is devoting his life to helping others do the same, in each case to the detriment of the other contract party. Our culture currently values keeping contracts in many areas, but no longer for housing.
Mark TanguayAgreed. (I could say more, but there is no need. You summed it up nicely.)