She tried to negotiate with them again to keep the doors of the daycare open and presented them with a payment plan, but she says they would not budge. But he was looking for somebody who could pay him up to $24,000 in the five-year term," Gilchrist said, adding that the email "came out of left field," and that she felt blindsided and bullied by her landlord. "I don't know if they found somebody who can pay that much. That's why Gilchrist was shocked when she received an email from her landlord earlier this month ordering her to vacate the property by Aug. "So I'm not thinking anything is weird because I pay my rent every month."ĭespite the uncertainty, Gilchrist continued to pay rent, including for August, which jumped to $19,000.
"I said, so I have to pay you back the $40,000 before I sign my lease? He said, ‘you know what, we're just going to do a month-to-month,’" Gilchrist recalled.
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She claims that in addition to the rent increase, her landlord wanted her first to pay the $40,000 debt she incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic in full before she could get a new lease. Worried about the pending expiration in July, Gilchrist says she asked her landlord, Elm Capital Ajax Inc., in June if she could get a new lease that would see her rent go up to $18,000. "It just doesn't work unless you raise your fees to $400 or $500 a week." I know I can never get that high," said Gilchrist, who initially paid a monthly rent of $14,650. That's ideally what they want in their term. "They want the lease to go from $19,000 up to 24,000. The landlord, however, took issue with Gilchrist’s description of the sequence of events in a statement. She told on Friday that she tried to get a new lease before the July expiration but was unsuccessful.
Julie Gilchrist, Happy Kids' director, says she initially signed a five-year lease in 2017 with an option to renew for two more five-year terms. 2017 and currently has a staff of 30 people. "It is what we have to kind of figure out."īrowne and Lewis are just one of the more than 100 families being serviced by Happy Kids who now have to search for a new child care provider. "We might have to make really difficult decisions about whether or not the both of us can work," she said. Well, what happens? If we don't work, we don't get paid," Lewis, who works as an electrician at a hospital, said.īrowne, who is a social worker, adds that they don't have family and friends close by who can help them. Because if push comes to shove and one of us has to stay home, we have to alternate staying home to look after our son. "To drop this news on us in two weeks it's devastating. They say they have started to inquire at other places, but many are already full and only have available slots for 2023. Lewis adds it is significantly harder to find a new provider right before September, when school starts.
So to have to let that go and find somewhere else and transition our son there in under two weeks, it's impossible," Browne said. You are just like rest assured that your kid is gonna be there and that they're gonna communicate with you if anything's going on."īut unfortunately, it appears that they will have to. "The past three months have been like so easy, knowing that our son is going there, that he's in good hands. It's her son's first daycare, and that's why she and her partner are devastated that it is shutting down at the end of the month. They say the centre has been a "fantastic" place for their child these past three months.īrowne says her child lights up when he sees the front of the building. 31 after its lease expired and was not renewed by the landlord.ĬP24.com spoke with several parents of children enrolled at the daycare, and many are frustrated about how short the notice was about the closure.Ĭhantelle Browne and her partner Jhsi Lewis recently got their son into Happy Kids after waiting for spots at other daycares. Happy Kids Child Care, located in the Church Street North and Delaney Drive area, has been instructed to vacate the building by Aug. The abrupt closure of an Ajax daycare in two weeks time has left more than a hundred families scrambling to find a new space for their children.
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