it's their fault for not catching you
I can attest to this. I lived with some people in a house in East Vancouver that got sold to some Chinese investors. They immediately tried evicting us by any retarded misinterpretation of the tenancy act. We ultimately used this to our advantage and scammed a free month from them by using their wording on a nasty email to get them to pay us, then informed them that were entitled to a free month of rent for our last month when getting evicted.
Whenever we pointed out the guy didn't understand the tenancy act or was straight up lying, he would apologize, say he misread it, and deflect his true intentions to an extent that made no sense and made him look like an absolutely incompetent retard instead. I still don't understand why they'd rather appear to be senile than dishonest, when at their core they're the most dishonest people I've come across.