The family of a notorious Montreal landlord who died in December has sold three of the apartment buildings that were the object of tenant complaints and interventions by the city.
Claudio Di Giambattista, who died in December at age 86, was in the news numerous times since the 1990s for the subpar conditions of his different buildings across Montreal.
Members of his family sold three buildings, on Ball Ave., Durocher St. and Stuart Ave., all in Villeray–St-Michel–Parc Extension borough, to a common buyer in April, real-estate records show.
The sale prices are listed as $885,000, $645,000 and $345,000, respectively.
A numbered company is purchaser of two of the buildings, while the company’s majority shareholder and president is listed as purchaser of the third building.
In the early 2000s, the six-unit building on Durocher was the object of hundreds of complaints and 35 interventions by the borough, which eventually undertook renovations itself.
The city evacuated the 15-unit building on Ball in 2012 after tenants complained of cockroaches, mould and rats.
The Régie du logement awarded a tenant of the six-unit Stuart building about $13,000, with interest, a few days after Di Gaimbattista’s death in December after deeming the building a danger to the health and well-being of its residents in 2011.
