John Shane, John Gerard Shane, In my opinion, a dishonest and immoral landlord who wrongfully and illegally evicts his own tenants New Canaan, Connecticut

John Shane is married to Karen Shane. He works for MF Global in New York, but lives in New Canaan, CT.

John Gerard Shane rents out properties that he owns in Sudbury, Ontario. There are four known properties so far: Connaught Street, Regent, Berrydown and 362 Victoria Street.

John has three children, Carson, Dylan and Ritchie.

Unfortunately it seems that John has a need for money (despite being the chief financial officer for MF Global which must be a good career) and in my opinion he will resort to illegal and unethical conduct for what amounts to just a few extra hundred dollars a year. I could understand if you worked at a Burger King and rented out a property but this man doesn't need the extra money and his methods are illegal.

John likes to use the tactic whereby he contacts his paralegal (currently Kurth Paralegal) and issue them a directive to send out a notice of eviction to his hard-working tenants. The letter indicates that Mr. Shane would like to move into the apartment and gives them 60 days to find new housing and to move out.

The tenant may oppose this but the Landlord and Tenant Board rarely sides with a tenant in these cases. The Landlord and Tenant Board should already have a good idea though, based on the chronic eviction attempts by John Shane, that these are not being made in good faith.

Here are some known facts to date:

Despite being married and having three children, he has made the ridiculous attempt to claim he wanted to take residence of a small bachelor apartment. Where would his children live? Once the tenant moved out, Mr. Shane failed to move in but did allow another tenant from one floor above to move in. This is what we call a poor faith eviction, and it is against the Landlord and Tenant Act.

48. (1) A landlord may, by notice, terminate a tenancy if the landlord in good faith requires possession of the rental unit for the purpose of residential occupation by,
(a) the landlord;
(b) the landlords spouse;
(c) a child or parent of the landlord or the landlords spouse; or
(d) a person who provides or will provide care services to the landlord, the landlords spouse, or a child or parent of the landlord or the landlords spouse, if the person receiving the care services resides or will reside in the building, related group of buildings, mobile home park or land lease community in which the rental unit is located. 2006, c. 17, s. 48 (1).

It is not good faith if you never planned to move in and if you let another tenant unrelated to you take the apartment of the former tenant. Of course the rent went up.

John Shane tried this method again to a young woman in a different building (756 Regent). While the tenant was currently trying to find a place to live within the allowable 60 days, John decided to issue her a 10 day eviction to expedite the process when he claimed that the woman had "seriously impaired the safety" of the other tenants by leaving the hot water taps on for a few days.

This was thrown out of the Landlord and Tenant Board because running hot water does not pose a risk to anyone else in the building. John Shane, in my opinion, sounds like an totally uneducated idiot. Running water impaired someone's safety?

When the tenant did move out, John failed to move in. The apartment was left vacant for two months (so much for John's urgent occupancy) and then re-rented out to someone else. Sound familiar?

The tenant wisely took Shane to court to recoup her costs of moving, which is an option under the Landlord and Tenant Board. Sadly, paying a small fine of about $1000 is nothing when you can jack up a rent by $100-200 a month.

The tenant WON but packing up your life into a vehicle and moving it to another place is time consuming, costly and stressful. It's too bad we can't force his bank to repossess his house and force HIM and his wife Karen out.

It should be noted that John Shane wrote in an affidavit (for this eviction) that, "I need one unit of the building to live in while I am in Sudbury. Up until now I have been staying at local hotels at a considerable cost.

Cost of a hotel to a successful chief financial officer? About a mere $80 a night or $560 a week.

Cost of an entire rental property? About $400,000.

I think this guy is a complete idiot if he expects anyone to believe that he bought an entire building just to use for a few weeks at a time out of the year. He has never been seen by ANY of his tenants as far as I know.

In 2007, John issued two eviction notices to two separate tenants at the same time. He required two apartments to live in at the same time? I think not.

Finally, in the case of wrongful eviction #3, John claimed that he had been 'terminated' from Merryl Lynch, his last employer. With such ethics as we've seen, is this any wonder?

He then tried to evict a tenant from the same building that the bachelor apartment incident occured in. The tenant was well aware of John's history of illegal evictions and told this to the paralegal. According to Kurth Paralegal, they admitted that John was not going to move in but did offer him a free month of rent.

Clearly if this is the case, Kurth Paralegal are going against the paralegal code of conduct and enabling Mr. Shane to commit these disgusting acts.

Some would argue that a landlord owns a building and should be able to evict.

In this case, innocent homeowners have arrived home one day to find notices telling them to move out within 60 days, at a time with occupancy rates at a very low rate and rents at a high rate. It isn't legal, it isn't moral, it isn't acceptable.

So if you are a John Gerard Shane tenant, now you know the facts. You can also find all of the legal documents to back these claims up:
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Regards,

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