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Imagine paying monthly rental fees on an HDC property for years, but when the time comes to convert your property to mortgage, you're told your unit technically does not exist.



It's the plight of one woman, who tells TV6 that she is one of four tenants currently in this predicament, as the Housing Development Corporation appears not to have a physical record of their building. It's just one of a few issues faced by Lion's Gate residents. Rynessa Cutting has more.
Transcript
00:00 cannot find my house and they have no record of the house that I'm living in, the townhouse.
00:05 Yours only?
00:06 No, the four that is on my compound.
00:09 No record?
00:10 No record.
00:11 It's not something you'd ever expect to hear, but at least one HTC tenant claims that the
00:17 corporation cannot find any physical record of the townhouse she presently occupies.
00:22 We went to the lawyer to do the, to convert the LTO to mortgage and when the lawyer almost
00:28 completed, it was the last stage, the lawyer said that HTC cannot find any credentials
00:33 for the house, so they are now looking into it.
00:36 HTC said that they are looking into it.
00:38 So I went into, went upon myself and go to Town and Country to find out what's going
00:43 on.
00:44 They said they know nothing about that.
00:45 So we went back to HTC and HTC did not answer me.
00:48 This is since what year?
00:49 2018, I started to apply for the mortgage.
00:52 And you still have to pay monthly fees?
00:54 Yes, I still pay my mortgage, my LTO payment, $3,500 a month.
00:58 She tells TV6 most of the other tenants in the development have been successful in converting
01:04 to mortgage, but while they may have the security of a mortgage, a few of those very said residents
01:09 tell TV6 they are less than pleased with the properties they are paying to own.
01:14 There's still a lot of roofing problems.
01:17 Another encounter they have is that when rain fall and it fall from the northeast side,
01:23 everybody facing the northeast side will get water pouring out from their house.
01:27 About a month ago, HTC sent an engineer, he came and told us flat, they cannot do anything
01:32 for our roofing.
01:33 There's a Canadian design and the company who did the roofing is no longer in existence.
01:42 They have no material to do that.
01:44 So they had to formulate another plan on how to rectify this problem we have facing the
01:50 roofing.
01:51 The residents supplied us with videos showing water coursing through their homes and in
01:56 one lady's case, raw sewage.
01:58 The water just flooded the whole place.
02:01 Came down on our entertainment center, our TV spoil and all of that.
02:11 Sewage water?
02:12 Sewage water, yeah.
02:14 When that was?
02:16 That was about a year ago.
02:18 And since they came and they do their renovation, they never came back to put up the ceiling.
02:23 The ceiling is still down.
02:25 TV6 News contacted the HTC on the residents' claims.
02:29 The corporation says it is aware of some of the issues being highlighted and is currently
02:33 in works through the Public Sector Investment Program to remedy those situations in the
02:38 2023-2024 program as it pertains to the so-called missing units.
02:44 The HTC explains that the parcel of land housing the building in question is on real property
02:50 ordinance lands and the HTC is still in the process of attaining full ownership of the
02:55 land.
02:56 The HTC adds, the tenant, like several others in the development, is in significant arrears.
03:02 Vanessa Cutting, TV6 News.
03:05 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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