Lorraine “Lori” Mathers
Serving landlords Since 1987
Five things to know
Lorraine Mathers has been serving landlords since 1987, first through her company called Direct Landlord Services Ltd. She then founded Mathers–Prior Professional Corporation, “one of the largest practitioners for landlords across Ontario.”
Mathers is one of the highest paid adjudicators. She’s on the Ontario Sunshine List with a 2019 salary of $117,973 and 2018 salary of $123,398.
Mathers is an experienced landlord herself and highly connected to the landlord sector. She doesn’t mention any of this on her LTB profile.
Mathers cornered the online eviction market when she registered the domain names evictions.ca and landlordtenant.ca in 2000.
On April 5, 2019, a Divisional Court judge overturned one of Mathers’ LTB decisions because she didn’t recuse herself from the hearing. Two years earlier, Mathers had been hired to evict the same tenant she was now responsible for hearing as an adjudicator.
Lorraine “Lori” Mathers profile from her website, shortly before she became an LTB adjudicator.
Lorraine Mathers has been practicing as a landlord-only paralegal since 1987, first through her company Direct Landlords Services Ltd. and then through her company Mathers–Prior Professional Corporation, “one of the largest practitioners for landlords across Ontario.” Mathers specializes in evictions—it’s her niche. She has made a career of getting tenants evicted at every step, from sending eviction notices, applying to the LTB, going to hearings, going to Small Claims Court to get the LTB’s orders enforced, and now handing out eviction orders as an adjudicator.
Mathers’ LinkedIn profile lists her evictions.ca website
Lori has worked in the disciplinary industry for quite some time. Before obtaining the power to hand down hundreds of eviction orders per week as punishment for tenants who have lost income or gotten sick, she worked as a dispatcher for the London Police Department for five years. Lori has been an adjudicator at the LTB since August 31, 2016.
Back in 2000—the early days of the Internet, but 13 years into her career servicing landlords—Lori got the jump on her competition by securing the domain names evictions.ca and landlordtenant.ca. If you were a landlord around London, ON in the early oughts, Lori could have sent your tenant an eviction notice for a cool $50. If you wanted Lori to fight in court to have your tenant evicted, it would have cost you $450. What did Lori think of changes to tenant protection laws back in the early 2000s? Well she wasn’t happy about them. She wrote on her website evictions.ca: “If the roof leaks the tenant is able to seek damages for the replacement cost of items damaged as a result of the leak. Congratulations, you as landlords are now the tenant's insurer.”
Lorraine Mathers, an experienced landlord, owns a farm near London, ON as well as a condo in the city.
“The existence of a reasonable apprehension of bias based on the Member’s [Lorraine Mathers] prior involvement in eviction proceedings against the Tenant constitutes a denial of natural justice”
In April 2019, one of Lorraine Mathers’ LTB orders was repealed after a higher court judge found that Mathers should have recused herself due to conflict-of-interest. She had previously evicted the tenant who she was adjudicating years earlier when she was a paralegal.