The Pivot Legal Society is unveiling a wanted poster today for a notorious Downtown Eastside landlord.
The group says George Wolsey owes former tenants thousands of dollars and has refused to pay up.
Some former tenants of the Wonder Rooms were awarded the damages for enduring unliveable conditions for years including broken windows and bug infestations. Throughout the dispute process, Wolsey failed to appear at any of the court dates and has refused service of documents and made no effort to pay outstanding debts, according to Pivot Legal Society.
“The accounts we have heard from tenants of the way they were treated by Mr. Wolsey and the conditions of the hotels are just astonishing,” says Douglas King, lawyer with Pivot.
“Cockroaches, bedbugs , holes in the walls; sadly the Wonder and Palace hotels will probably always represent the worst of Vancouver’s SRO housing crisis.”
Wolsey owes the ten people more than $18,000 but didn’t appear in court yesterday to settle the three-year dispute.
Pivot has now secured ten arrest warrants, one for every person Wolsey hasn’t paid.
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