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GeneralA BC landlord who wants to move in, or move in a close family member, now gives 3 months' notice on a Three Month Notice (RTB-32L) generated on the RTB web portal. Who qualifies, the 5-unit rule, the 21-day dispute period and the compensation owed.
Safety & Scam PreventionRental scams in BC often borrow a real landlord's photos and address. Here is how landlords can make their listings hard to copy, the RTA rules that make a fake stand out, and where to report one.
Market TrendsCANADA, Nov. 3, 2026: Yardi's Fall 2026 report says in-place apartment rents rose 1.7% a year to $1,790, the smallest increase since its tracking began in 2020, while new leases slipped 0.2%.
Rights & LegalIn BC, a landlord must offer the tenant two opportunities for the move-out inspection, the second on the RTB-22 Notice of Final Opportunity. Here is how to schedule both, serve the notice in time and protect the deposit claim.
Safety & Scam PreventionIn BC, smoke alarms are mandatory in every rental unit and the landlord installs, tests and maintains them, while the tenant must not disable them and must report problems. Carbon monoxide alarms are recommended rather than required. Here is who does what.
Platform & ProductBC rental property managers must keep a record of each tenant's security and pet damage deposits. Here is how to set up deposit tracking across a portfolio in Tenon10 so every deposit, its date and its return deadline are in one place.
Safety & Scam PreventionA BC rental scam usually asks for money before you have seen the unit or signed a tenancy agreement. Here are the warning signs the RCMP and the Competition Bureau list, the BC rules a real landlord follows, and where to report.
Maintenance & RepairsCondensation and mould on rental windows: what tenants must clean, what landlords must repair, and how BC's Residential Tenancy Branch sorts out the cause.
GeneralWhen 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.
Rights & LegalIn BC, a landlord who skips a condition inspection or never gives the tenant the report loses the right to claim against the deposit for damage. What you keep, and how to avoid paying double.
Rights & LegalVancouver limits short-term rentals to the unit the host lives in, and the Province's registry sits on top. What long-term landlords need to know when a tenant asks to host.
GeneralWhat a BC rental property management trust ledger must show under the Real Estate Services Rules, a reconciled month with two owners, a monthly routine for a portfolio, and what Tenon10's PM plan covers.
Rights & LegalA box-by-box guide to BC's Condition Inspection Report (RTB-27): the parties and dates, room codes, keys, repairs, tenant statements, agreed deductions and the copy deadlines.
Finances & BudgetingThe BC trust account rules for rental property managers: deposits in, fees out, interest, negative balances, monthly reconciliations and the annual accountant's report.
GeneralEvery 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.
Rights & LegalWhen BC condition inspections must happen, how to offer two opportunities, what the report must contain, the 7- and 15-day copy deadlines, and what each side loses by skipping them.
GeneralWhere 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.
GeneralA workflow for property managers serving 2027 B.C. rent increases across many units, from eligibility dates to proof of service.
Tools & EvaluationsThis is the last comparison in our series, and it's about a kinship: both of these tools care about single-family rentals — the scattered houses, duplexes, and townhomes that make up most Canadian landlords' portfolios. Propertyware has spent almost twenty years serving that segment at company scale: it's built, in its
Tools & EvaluationsYardi Breeze is the friendliest door into one of the oldest names in property software — per-unit pricing, no onboarding fees, and a product line that runs from Breeze through Premier to Voyager, the enterprise platform that costs more per year than most small portfolios gross. That's the honest frame for this comparis
Tools & EvaluationsHere's a comparison between twins of a different kind: both of these tools give a 1-to-3-unit landlord a genuinely free plan — not a trial, a product. Landlord Studio pairs its free tier with the deepest DIY bookkeeping stack at this end of the market: live bank feeds, receipt scanning, smart rules that sort your trans
Tools & EvaluationsHere's the shortest honest comparison on the internet: AppFolio doesn't sell to portfolios under 50 units — so if you're a Canadian landlord with a duplex, a fourplex, or anything under two dozen doors, one of these platforms won't take you as a customer, and the other was built for you. This page covers the rest prope
Tools & EvaluationsBuildium is excellent software — for a US property management company running 50 to 1,000 doors. If that's you, close this tab and go demo it. But if you're a Canadian landlord with a basement suite, a triplex, or a growing portfolio under 25 units, you'd be paying US-company prices in US dollars for US workflows — and
Rights & LegalEvery rental file is a privacy file: applications, credit checks, IDs, camera footage, smart-entry logs. Under PIPEDA, landlords and property managers are data custodians with real obligations — consent, purpose limits, safeguards, 30-day access requests, and mandatory breach reporting with fines up to $100,000. Here's
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