Late last year, multiple tenants in small apartment buildings around Halifax got similar letters from their new landlord, stating their leases would soon be terminated. But no reasons were given.

This didn't sit right with Amanda Rose, who has been renting her one-bedroom apartment in the city's north end for almost six years.

"It seemed targeted," Rose said in a recent interview at her Cunard Street apartment. "It seemed like it was targeted toward the tenants who had been here the longest and were paying the lowest rent amount."

Rose knew four people in her eight-unit building had received the letter.

When she knocked on some doors, she found tenants in four other buildings recently purchased by the same landlord, PreCor Property Management, were facing eviction attempts as well.

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