2 Toronto residents charged in alleged decade-long rent scam
Posted March 3, 2021 6:33 pm.
Last Updated March 3, 2021 8:55 pm.
Toronto police say two people are facing charges for allegedly attempting to not pay rent for a decade throughout the city.
Police say that a man and woman moved into multiple apartments paying first and last month’s rent, then would stop.
Even though the couple has been with the same employer for more than 10 years, they would tell the landlord they were unemployed in order to prolong getting evicted.
However, once the eviction process was complete, the man and woman still owed payments to landlords while they looked for other properties to repeat the process again.
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On Feb. 24, 2021, Gary Bachelor, 42, and Mandy Chapple, 45, both of Toronto were charged with seven counts of fraud over $5,000 and two counts of False Pretence.
Police allege the couple did this at several different apartment buildings over 10 years, which would work out to only paying 14 months’ rent for about 120 months of accommodation.
Bachelor and Chapple are scheduled to appear in court on April 7.
Scamming landlords for ten years — that’s how Toronto Police describe a man and woman who allegedly moved into eight apartments, with first and last months rent, then stopped paying rent and made fake excuses while landlords went through legal hoops. Fraud charges laid. @680NEWS pic.twitter.com/EtC6FLgjnM
— Mark Douglas (@DouglasCityNews) March 3, 2021
