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Rights & LegalEvery BC tenant has a right to quiet enjoyment under section 28 of the Residential Tenancy Act. What it covers, when noise, entry or renovations become a breach, and how to claim compensation or a rent reduction.
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 & RepairsWhen there are bed bugs in an Ontario rental, the landlord arranges and pays for treatment in most cases. Here is when a tenant can be charged, what tenants must do, and the routes when nothing happens.
Maintenance & RepairsWhen an Ontario landlord ignores a leak, tenants have three real tools: a written record, the municipality's property standards office, and a T6 application at the Landlord and Tenant Board.
Maintenance & RepairsHot water is a vital service under Ontario's Residential Tenancies Act. Here are the temperature rules, who repairs the water heater, and what tenants can do if hot water is not restored.
Maintenance & RepairsAlberta law puts weathertight, crack-free rental windows on the landlord. Here is what the minimum housing standards require, who pays when a window breaks, and what tenants can do when repairs are ignored.
GeneralAn Ontario landlord can seek an above-guideline rent increase for new windows when the work is an eligible capital expenditure, finished in time and fully paid. The 3% cap, useful lives, rebates and what tenants can raise.
Lease & AgreementsIn BC, everyone who signs one tenancy agreement is a co-tenant and is responsible for the whole rent. A roommate a tenant brings in later is an occupant with no rights under the Residential Tenancy Act. Here is how each status works and how to set it up in writing.
Maintenance & RepairsWhat the BC Building Code 2024 says about window guards, 100 mm limiters and bedroom escape windows, and what landlords and tenants should do in a rental.
Safety & Scam PreventionSmoke and CO alarm duties under Ontario's Fire Code, and what happens after a fire: repairs, frustration, rent, moving back, entry, tenant-caused damage and insurance.
Maintenance & RepairsHow to replace windows while a tenant lives in a BC rental: written entry notice, scheduling the work, quiet enjoyment and when tenants are compensated.
Maintenance & RepairsWho fixes a drafty, cracked or broken window in a BC rental, what section 32 of the Residential Tenancy Act requires, and how tenants get a repair through the RTB.
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 & LegalFound a clause in your BC lease that breaks the rules? How to confirm it, raise it with your landlord in writing, get money back, keep your tenancy safe and take it to the RTB.
Rights & LegalA step-by-step walkthrough of a BC Residential Tenancy Branch hearing for landlords and tenants: what to prepare, who speaks first, conduct on the call, and what happens after the decision.
Rights & LegalIf your BC landlord will not fix a problem, you do not have to withhold rent or do it yourself. Here is the path from a written request to an RTB order for repairs, a rent reduction and compensation.
Rights & LegalBC tenants must give written notice that reaches the landlord a full rental month before they leave. Here is how to count it, what to include, and what to do before move-out.
GeneralAfter a BC 10 Day Notice, the tenant has 5 days to pay in full or dispute. Here is how the days are counted and what each outcome means for landlords and tenants.
Safety & Scam PreventionRental scams run in both directions, and most guides only warn one side. Tenants get burned by cloned listings, phantom units, and deposit-wire pressure; landlords get burned by their own photos scamming their own applicants, fake pay stubs, and overpayment cheques. Here's the two-sided defence: the scam patterns by na
Rights & LegalYes — and almost everything attached to that yes is where landlords get into trouble and tenants overpay. First month's rent is just rent; last month's is Ontario's only legal deposit, capped at one rental period, earning interest every year at that year's guideline rate. Damage, security, cleaning, and pet deposits ar
Screening & ApplicationsA rental listing has one job: get the right people to enquire and the wrong fits to self-select out — honestly and lawfully. This guide is the writing method: the headline formula, the specifics-beat-adjectives rule, the facts tenants filter by, the response promise that signals a professional process, and the language
Rights & LegalOntario's biggest tenancy-law overhaul in a generation arrived in two waves. On July 1, 2026, the quiet procedural wave took effect: review deadlines cut to 15 days, the LTB's Payment Agreement Form mandatory for repayment plans, directed service of above-guideline increase orders tightened to 7 days, tenants' new righ
Rights & LegalEvery property management relationship is decided twice — once in the service agreement, and once in the thirty days after it's signed. Onboarding a new owner client is where the custody inventory arrives, the lease files get audited, the deposits get reconciled, the tenants get one calm letter, and the working rhythm
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