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SIGNING LEASE BINDS PERSON TO PAY RENTAL ARREARS EVEN IF THEY NEVER SET FOOT IN LEASED PREMISES OR PAID RENT HISTORICALLY.  <\/strong>The Divisional Court upheld the Small Claims Court ruling that made a signatory to the lease pay the rental arrears in circumstances where this person was simply lending his name on the lease to help another party get an apartment.  The obligation to pay rent was not extinguished by the fact that the defendant never paid anything toward rent historically, nor occupied the leased space at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wu v. Adler<\/em>, 2022 ONSC 188 (CanLII)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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