The BC tenancy agreement (RTB-1): standard terms, what you can and can't add, fixed terms and month-to-month, and clauses the RTA won't enforce.
The pillar guide: read it first and the rest of the hub falls into place.
Pillar guideWhat a BC tenancy agreement must contain, how the RTB-1 standard terms work, what really happens at the end of a fixed term, and how to keep leases consistent across units.
Lease managementIn BC a fixed-term tenancy usually rolls into month-to-month on the same terms. Here is when a tenant must actually move out, and how to track end dates across units.
Platform tutorialsWhat a BC tenancy agreement must contain under the RTA, the mistakes that weaken it, and how to prepare one in Tenon10 with the current standard terms.
Tenant resourcesFound 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.
Lease managementWhich additional terms hold up in a BC tenancy agreement addendum, which are void, and how to keep one clean addendum across all your units.
Lease managementIn 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.
Lease managementIn BC, a tenancy agreement can ban pets or limit their size, kind and number, and a landlord can take one pet damage deposit. Guide and service dogs are not pets: a landlord cannot refuse them or charge a pet deposit for them.
Lease managementIn BC, the tenancy agreement decides who pays for utilities. Once a utility is included in the rent, a landlord can't take it away or charge extra without following section 27 of the Residential Tenancy Act, and shared bills need a written split.
Lease managementIn BC, a tenant can't sublet a unit or assign a tenancy without the landlord's written consent. With six months or more left on a fixed term the landlord can't unreasonably refuse, can't charge for consenting, and an unauthorized sublet is cause for a One Month Notice.
Tenant resourcesA 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.
Tenant resourcesA BC landlord can ask for photo ID, references, rental history and, with your consent, a credit check. They can't charge an application fee, copy your ID, require your banking details before the tenancy, or refuse you on a Human Rights Code ground.
Provincial complianceUnder BC's Residential Tenancy Act, a landlord must give a receipt for rent paid in cash. Here is what the law requires, what a good receipt shows, and why both sides should keep records for every other payment too.
Legal mattersSection 10 of BC's Human Rights Code bars a landlord from refusing a tenant, or setting worse terms, because of 14 personal characteristics, including family status and lawful source of income. Here are the grounds, the narrow exceptions, and how complaints work.
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