Narrow 479 published guides by topic, province, who you are and the kind of help you need. Every filter shows how many guides it leaves.
Shaded tiles have guides written for that province.
26 of 479 guides
Showing Rights & Legal, Saskatchewan matching “saskatchewan”, newest first.
Rights & LegalIf your Saskatchewan landlord raised the rent without proper notice, the increase does not take effect until the earliest date that complies. Here is how to check the notice and ask the ORT to rule.
Rights & LegalThe documents a Saskatchewan landlord must file with the Office of Residential Tenancies for an order of possession, from the notice as served to the rent ledger, and what to check before you submit.
Rights & LegalCan a Saskatchewan landlord take a pet deposit on top of the security deposit, or charge pet rent? What the Residential Tenancies Act allows, for landlords and tenants.
Rights & LegalA sale does not end your Saskatchewan tenancy. Here is when a buyer can ask for a Notice to Vacate so Purchaser can Occupy, how much notice you get, and what you can claim.
Rights & LegalThe ORT phone number, email, Regina and Saskatoon offices, the online question form and the free clinics: every way to reach Saskatchewan's Office of Residential Tenancies, once called the Rentalsman.
Rights & LegalHow a Saskatchewan landlord ends a month-to-month tenancy so the landlord or close family can move in: who qualifies, the two-month date, serving Form 8b and what happens if the tenant disputes it.
Rights & LegalSaskatchewan has no separate complaints line for landlords: a tenant files a Breach of Tenant's Rights application at the ORT. What it can order, what it cannot, and how to file.
Rights & LegalA Saskatchewan landlord cannot change your locks without your agreement, keep your belongings, or remove you without an ORT order enforced by a sheriff. Here is what the Act says and what to do if you are locked out.
Rights & LegalBad service sinks ORT applications. How a Saskatchewan landlord must serve a notice on a current tenant, when it counts as received, and how to prove it.
Rights & LegalHow a Saskatchewan landlord keeps part of a security deposit: return the rest, serve the Notice of Landlord's Claim within seven business days, hold the claimed money in trust and be ready to pay it into the ORT.
Rights & LegalWhen a Saskatchewan tenant stays past the notice date, the landlord applies to the ORT for possession and lets the sheriff enforce the writ. Here is how, and what losses you can claim.
Rights & LegalA step-by-step guide for Saskatchewan tenants: which notices you can dispute, how to write and deliver the 15-day dispute, and what happens at the Office of Residential Tenancies.
Rights & LegalEvery Saskatchewan tenancy notice and ORT application now starts in the ORT online portal. How to set up the right Saskatchewan Account, link the service and file your first notice or application.
Rights & LegalNo. Saskatchewan's Residential Tenancies Act bans rental application fees, processing fees, screening fees and fees to accept a tenant. What is allowed, and what to do if you were charged.
Rights & LegalSaskatchewan sets no total time for an eviction, only the steps: an immediate notice once rent is 15 days or more overdue, an ORT hearing and a written decision, then a 30-day writ the sheriff enforces.
Rights & LegalIn Saskatchewan, an ORT hearing officer orders a writ of possession directed to the sheriff. It expires 30 days after it is ordered unless another date is set, and only the sheriff enforces it.
Rights & LegalSaskatchewan has no pay-to-stay rule: paying after an Immediate Notice to Vacate does not cancel it, and accepting rent is not a waiver unless agreed in writing (s.60.1). Here is what payment does at each stage.
Rights & LegalAn immediate notice does not let your Saskatchewan landlord put you out. Only a sheriff with an ORT writ can. Here is how to check the notice, what paying does and does not do, and how the hearing and appeal work.
Rights & LegalField by field: how Saskatchewan landlords fill in the Immediate Notice to Vacate and Notice of Arrears (formerly Form 7), work out the arrears, serve every tenant and prove service to the ORT.
Rights & LegalA Saskatchewan landlord needs the tenant's permission or a written Notice of Entry 24 hours to seven days ahead, with a reasonable purpose and a four-hour window between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Here are the exceptions, showing rules and remedies.
Rights & LegalSaskatchewan's residential law is The Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, not The Landlord and Tenant Act. Every main rule for landlords on one page: leases, deposits, rent increases, notices, service, possession hearings and the ORT.
Rights & LegalEvery main right a Saskatchewan renter has under The Residential Tenancies Act, 2006: leases, the one-month deposit cap, 12 months' notice of rent increases, entry, repairs, evictions and taking a dispute to the ORT (formerly the Rentalsman).
Rights & LegalSaskatchewan tenancy disputes go to the Office of Residential Tenancies (formerly the Rentalsman): apply online, pay a non-refundable $50 fee, serve the hearing notice, and get a written decision after a phone hearing.
Rights & LegalSaskatchewan damage deposit laws: one month's rent at most, half at signing, held in trust, and returned or claimed within seven business days after the tenant moves out.
Showing 24 of 26
Load more guides