So, my landlord wants me out by the end of the month for "extensive repairs" to the unit...

Now, I live in Ontario, Canada, where it is notoriously difficult to get rid of even non-paying tenants who trash the unit, never mind ones who do pay on time every month and don't cause any trouble (that would be me).

So, I can fight the eviction and based on several consultations, I even have a good chance of winning. To be clear, I have been looking for another place but the search has not gone well. Any place I can afford is gone before I respond to the ad (in one case, I responded five minutes after the ad was posted and it was already too late).

My landlord has offered me another unit in a building down the street, but it'll cost $400 more in rent, plus utilities, so possibly $500-$600 more total.

I've run the math several times and it's barely doable, and that's while the price of everything is going up.

I don't know what to do. I want to ask if they could possibly wave the first three months of rent and I'd work on getting my finances sorted in that time. The amount of money would also be in line with settlements I've heard of being reached by others in a rennoviction situation. ...but then I feel like I'm trying to extort them.

The problem is compounded by the fact that I take care of my sister, who has autism. Not severe, but severe enough that she can't work or live alone...and disability payments haven't been increased here since 2018.

And I full admit that my own finances aren't great, though they are improving. I'm self-employed and at the moment, I'm actually swamped with clients. Normally that would be a good thing but right now I have issues trying to get "in the zone" and work when I have to take frequent breaks just to take multiple deep breaths.

I definitely have the ability to increase my income, but not in this kind of mental state.

This whole situation has left me feeling almost permanently exhausted. My sense of time is off. Some days I feel like I'm barely functional. This morning I actually had a dream where my landlord was following me to every place I've ever rented to evict me.

And this is the second time in less than two years. In the summer of 2020, I was kicked out of the townhouse I was renting so the landlord there could move his daughter in...and that happened two months after my mother died of cancer (I'd been her primary caretaker).

As I said earlier, I shouldn't be panicking. If it comes down it, I can fight this, or at least delay it for a while...but holy shit is this overwhelming.