After dealing with a death in her family, Trisha Alexson returned home to Saskatoon to find her rental suite of two years completely empty and under renovation.

“I looked in the windows and everything was gone and I was trying to comprehend everything and my daughter was with me,” said Alexson.

From irreplaceable family pictures, baby clothing and her children’s star blankets from when they were born, to her 14 year-old daughter’s brand new fancy shawl regalia and eagle feathers. Dozens of items were removed from the suite and thrown in the trash.

“Her new beadwork, her new gifted plumes she received. The look on her face was just… it was really, really hard to deal with that. She was heartbroken, I felt her heartache,” said Alexson, holding back tears.

“It just hurt, seeing my daughter like that. How can somebody be that cruel to throw away their belongings? The assumptions of the building manager where they were trying to say she moved out… we just went through something very traumatizing with our family,” said Claudia Goodwill, Trisha’s mother.

Some items like her children’s medals, framed artwork and a couple televisions were put in storage and have been returned to Alexson.

She says when they left the suite on June 5, her daughter locked the door and accidentally left the keys hanging on the lock.

A neighbor noticed the keys and notified the rental company, Mainstreet Equity Corporation and after repeated unanswered calls to Alexson, the company entered the suite.

“The unit was in a bit of a mess, the tap was running quite a bit too,” said Michael Berklein, director of Mainstreet Equity Corporation.

“You get people that skip out so they just don’t pay rent and they leave and this looked like it was one of those skip situations.”

Alexson says she had three contract numbers on file but the company only called her disconnected line.

“My home is my home. I have kids you know? Yea, maybe it was mess to them. I told them on the phone, I checked my bank account and I did pay my rent and he said, ‘you know what? I just looked at my records and you’re right. It’s our mistake,’” said Alexson.

Mainstreet Equity Corporation has offered to pay $4,000 to Alexson, but she says no amount of money replaces her loss.

“You can’t really put a price tag on that, in what they did and how much it means to her. There were keepsakes in there from my late brother and my children growing up. For my daughter, personally, (her regalia) is part of who she is, that’s her identity, that’s her culture,” said Alexson.

Alexson says a lawyer has reached out to her to see if she will take Mainstreet Equity Corporation to court. For now she says she is just worried about getting her and her daughter’s life back in order.