Mental Illness & Tenants: What Every Quebec Landlord Needs to Know - Real Escape Investing

🎧 Episode Description If you own enough rental units in Quebec, mental health will come knocking. In this episode, I share my first experience with psychosis in student housing—and how, 20+ years later, schizophrenia, hoarding, drug-induced psychosis and untreated mental illness are regular challenges in my buildings.If you see investing in Real Estate as part of your future, it's a matter of time before hoarding, dementia, sanitary issues and noise complaints find you. Landlords today are managing what the public health system won’t. This episode gives some tips and context to help prepare you. This episode covers: What kinds of mental illness you’ll see in tenantsReal stats: how cannabis, isolation and aging are impacting Quebec rentersWhat to do when tenants’ behavior impacts your other residentsWhat not to do—and how to protect your buildingWhy compassion and boundaries both matterMental Health Is a Housing Issue. Let’s Start Treating It Like One. In my 20+ years as a property manager, I’ve cleaned up the fallout from untreated mental illness more times than I can count. Food theft, hoarding, feces in bathtubs.But the real problem? We have no plan.Police, landlords, city inspectors — we’re all patching holes in a sinking ship. Mental illness today doesn’t mean hospitalization. It means eviction.Deinstitutionalization. Budget cuts. An aging population. Rising drug use. The stats don’t lie—and neither do the eviction notices.It’s time we stopped pretending this is just a healthcare issue. If you’re in housing, real estate, or public policy, this episode of my podcast is for you. Mental Illness & Tenants: What Every Quebec Landlord Needs to Know [Link to episode]#housingcrisis #mentalhealth #propertymanagement #realestate #policyfail LinkedIn Newsletter CopySubject Line: Mental Health Is the Crisis We’re Not Talking About (Yet)Header: What Schizophrenia, Hoarding & Housing Have in CommonHi [Name],My first week managing student housing at the University of Toronto, a schizophrenic housemate stole everyone’s food and later screamed “Satan!” at one of the other tenants. She ended up evicted, howling outside our door at night. That was my crash course in what the housing system doesn’t do for the mentally ill.Flash forward two decades, and I’ve evicted tenants who hoard, suffer from drug-induced psychosis, or have other untreated mental disorders. None of these evictions are really about rent.In this week’s podcast episode and newsletter, we go deep into the data and the personal stories behind the mental health crisis unfolding in rental housing. Here’s a taste:Psychotic breaks aren’t rare anymore.Cannabis-induced psychosis in young men is skyrocketing.Hoarding disorder affects over 6% of people 55+.Emergency rooms and rental courts have become our asylums.What’s worse? Quebec spends less than Germany, France, or even the UK on mental health.We need to start telling the truth: landlords, inspectors, and police are holding the bag because our systems are broken. Podcast: Mental Illness & Tenants → [link] The full write-up → [link to newsletter if separate]As always, thanks for reading,— Terrie 1. Terrie’s Weekly Email Newsletter (for Equity Builders Club)Subject: Mental Illness in Tenants: Not If, But...