Can a BC Landlord Raise the Rent After New Windows? The Additional Rent Increase Rules
When new windows can support an additional rent increase in BC: the Residential Tenancy Regulation tests, what is excluded, the 3% cap and what tenants can do.
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When new windows can support an additional rent increase in BC: the Residential Tenancy Regulation tests, what is excluded, the 3% cap and what tenants can do.
Alberta caps all deposits at one month's rent, requires a trust account within 2 banking days, and gives landlords 10 days to return the deposit. No inspection report means no damage deductions.
Every BC short-term rental needs a provincial registration number. Who registers, the $100 and $450 fees, the proof-of-residence documents, and the 14-day and 40-day deadlines.
Every core rule for Alberta landlords on one page: leases, the one-month deposit cap, inspection reports, rent increases, entry, repairs, notices, the RTDRS and deposit returns.
Where BC's principal residence requirement applies, short-term rentals are limited to the host's home plus one suite or accessory unit. Here is where it applies, what registration costs and what breaches cost.
One landlord writing one listing is a craft problem. Fifty listings a year across a dozen buildings is a systems problem, and the two have almost nothing in common. This is the operator's guide to listing at scale: the template architecture that keeps every ad Human Rights Code-compliant without a lawyer reviewing each
A single landlord loses a fortnight and feels it. A property manager running eighty units loses a fortnight per turnover and calls it normal — because nobody has ever put a portfolio number on it. This is the operator's guide to vacancy days: where they actually accumulate across a portfolio (rarely where owners think)
Post a well-priced unit in a decent Ontario market and you will not get three enquiries — you will get forty, most of them within the first forty-eight hours, most of them one line long, and a meaningful share of them from people who will never reply again. This is the triage system: how to structure the listing so the