u/littlechurp

I have been renting for about 4 years in Richmond Hill and my landlord has expressed in the past (over 2 years here and there) they're considering selling but it has only been now that they've listed the home for sale.

Prior to listing, they offered to mutually sign a N11 to which I did not sign as I have no intention to voluntarily leave without securing a new home for my family, in our school zone. That was in the late spring of this year. Since then I have been looking for housing (from my understanding this is completely voluntary on my part) that is suitable for my children to live and in our budget. We live in a condo in a neighborhood that has few other condos and renting a home is far more expensive. We have submitted multiple offers on multiple different units over the last few months with no luck as the market in this area and price point are fiercely competitive (deposits of 6 to 12 months).

Once the home was listed which was 3 weeks ago, there have only been 3 requests for showing. Two of which were last minute (within 24 hrs) and I could not accommodate (there is no extra keys and therefore no lockbox, I hold the only 2 sets of keys for this home and therefore I must be available for showings, which is preferable for me to be home during showings anyways). The third one was booked with 24hrs notice but at the 11th hour was formally cancelled by the showing agent but they showed up anyways and complained no one answered the door. I had already left the home once I received notification that the showing was cancelled.

The listing agent and the landlord have accused me of acting in bad faith and preventing showings. The landlord also accused me of not leaving which from my understanding i do not have any obligation to leave just because they're selling the home. We got into a big argument over it.

What are my next steps?

Any recommendations for good neighborhoods where there is a higher likelihood to find some furniture treasures out on the curb on garbage day? Not picking to sell, need furniture for my new home and don't have much of a budget.

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Thank you in advance

Update: Thank you all who have offered furniture to me, I want to be honest to say that I am not in desperate financial need to be looking for furniture. Rather I was wondering if there would be some spots I could find some high quality items if I spent time searching to slowly furnish my new home without spending thousands. I don't want to nor need to take advantage of any furniture banks or kind offers from strangers who would otherwise find charitable places to donate their furniture items or sell them themselves.

Does anyone have experience with moving a pool table? I saw one for sale but I have to move it myself. I read I'll need to hire professionals but because I'll have to store this table before it ends up in my basement for use, I don't want to spend a ridiculous amount of money to move it into storage.

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My questions are:

What is the average cost to disassemble and move a pool table to a storage facility

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Are there helpers just available if I provide the truck?

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Is this at all possible with a few friends and a couple tutorials? Or should i leave it to professionals

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Can I assemble the table myself afterwards or will I still need professionals to assemble?

Been going through divorce in Ontario and notice I'm being sent to mediation, arbitration, experts through my lawyer who is great but can't help but think:

Some parts of this process feel pre-planned like our mediator being suggested to act as our arbitrator.

Things like feeling things are being pushed along despite an opportunity to settle and mediate further.

Using a specific person to deal with our parenting issues yet this person wants to arbitrate on our disagreements despite us not having an opportunity to mediate on the issue first?

I've been years into this and just parts of the whole process feel prescription like regardless of what I want to do the lawyers and arbitrators seem to already have plans and move them forward.

The outcomes are fine so far, like I haven't lost in my position yet but am I really to believe this whole process hasn't been impartial to the interests of lawyers and other third parties involved??

Update examples:

Example when we were in mediation, my lawyer stepped out with the mediator (virtual) and my lawyer came back to me to simply state we would arbitrate the remaining issues, using the mediator as the arbitrator.

With child issues my lawyer simply said to move to arbitrate without providing me further legal advice to steer mediation on the topic. Sure he feels strongly he could win for me but he can also provide me more insights on how I can avoid arbitration? The parenting mediator for example also has not given me a full executed agreement with her signature when I asked specifically for the full executed arbitration agreement yet days later she send a notice for arbitration. My lawyer seems reluctant to call it out though. Why not call out that she may not have full authority to arbitrate?