GeneralWhat You Can and Can't Add to a BC Tenancy Agreement
Which additional terms hold up in a BC tenancy agreement addendum, which are void, and how to keep one clean addendum across all your units.
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GeneralThe BC Residential Tenancy Agreement (RTB-1): The Complete Landlord Guide
What 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.
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Rights & LegalGetting Your Deposit Back in BC: A Tenant's Step-by-Step Guide
A step-by-step guide for BC tenants: protect your deposit at move-in, give your forwarding address the right way, and claim it through the RTB if it does not come back.
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Rights & LegalWhen a BC Landlord Must Pay Back Double the Deposit
If your BC landlord does not return your deposit, get your written agreement or apply to the RTB within 15 days, you may be owed double. Here is how it works.
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GeneralThe 15-Day Rule: Returning a Deposit at the End of a BC Tenancy
BC landlords have 15 days to return a deposit, get written agreement or file with the RTB. Here is when the clock starts, worked dates and what missing it costs.
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GeneralThe Half-Month Cap: How Much Deposit a BC Landlord Can Collect
BC caps security and pet damage deposits at half of the first month's rent each. Here are the numbers, the exemptions and what happens if you collect too much.
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GeneralBC Security and Pet Damage Deposits: The Complete Landlord Guide
How much you can collect, when inspections protect your claim, and how to beat the 15-day return deadline and the double-deposit penalty in British Columbia.
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GeneralAutomating BC Rent Reminders and 10 Day Notices in Tenon10
A repeatable monthly arrears workflow for BC property managers, built around section 46 and the RTB-30, and where Tenon10 fits in.
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Rights & LegalGot a 10 Day Notice in BC? What Tenants Should Do Now
A BC 10 Day Notice for unpaid rent gives you 5 days to act. Here is how to count your deadline, your options to pay or dispute, and where to get help.
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GeneralServing Documents in BC: Every Method the RTA Allows
BC has different service rules for notices and for dispute applications. Here is every method the Residential Tenancy Act allows, and when each document counts as received.
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GeneralDirect Request for an Order of Possession in BC
If a BC tenant does not pay or dispute a 10 Day Notice, a Direct Request can get you an order of possession without a hearing. Here is who qualifies, what to file and how to enforce it.
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GeneralFive Days to Pay or Dispute: What Happens After a BC 10 Day Notice
After 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.
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GeneralHow to Give a 10 Day Notice to End Tenancy for Unpaid Rent in BC (RTB-30)
When rent is late in BC, the RTB-30 10 Day Notice is the tool. Here is when you can serve it, how to count the days, and what to do when the tenant does not pay or dispute.
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GeneralServing 2027 BC Rent Increases Across a Portfolio in Tenon10
A workflow for property managers serving 2027 B.C. rent increases across many units, from eligibility dates to proof of service.
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Rights & LegalThe 2027 BC Rent Increase Limit: A Renter's Guide
Your B.C. rent can rise by at most 2.2% in 2027. Here is what that means in dollars, when it can start, and how to check your notice.
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Rights & LegalDisputing a BC Rent Increase: A Tenant's Guide
How B.C. tenants can check whether a rent increase is lawful, what to do if it is not, and how to recover an overpayment.
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GeneralThree Full Months: Serve-Date Maths for BC Rent Increases
B.C. rent increases need three full months' notice counted from deemed receipt. Here are the serve-by dates for every 2027 effective month.
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GeneralThe BC Notice of Rent Increase (RTB-7): How to Fill It In
A field-by-field walkthrough of B.C.'s Notice of Rent Increase (RTB-7), with a worked 2027 example and the errors that delay increases.
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GeneralBC Rent Increase Limit for 2027: 2.2%, and What Landlords Can Charge
B.C.'s 2027 rent increase limit is 2.2%. Here is how to calculate it, when to serve the RTB-7, and the rules on the 12-month gap, tenant agreements and additional increases.
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GeneralCanadian Rents Have Fallen for Two Straight Years. What Should Landlords Do at Renewal?
Asking rents are down 9.2% from their 2024 peak. The guideline still lets you raise rent, but on a market moving down, the most expensive number on your books is an empty month.
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Rights & LegalThe Renoviction Paper Trail: N13 Documents and the Right of First Refusal After September 21
An N13 renoviction runs on paper, and from September 21, 2026 there's more of it: Bill 97 amends the RTA's right-of-first-refusal rules, adding written-notification duties for landlords once a tenant has preserved the right — including keeping the tenant updated when the completion date slips, which it usually does. Th
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Rights & LegalThe 15-Day Review Window: How to Challenge an LTB Order Before It's Final
Since July 1, 2026, the clock to challenge a Landlord and Tenant Board order has run half as long: a Request to Review must be filed within 15 days of the order's issue date — down from 30 — under new s.209(3) of the RTA, with orders issued before that date keeping the old deadline. Two months in, the mistakes have a p
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Rights & LegalThe LTB Order Catalogue: How to Use Ontario's New Public Orders — Lawfully
Since July 24, 2026, the Landlord and Tenant Board's final orders have been publishing to Ontario's Open Data Catalogue — free, no login, monthly updates, with history filling back to December 2021 in phases. It's the biggest transparency shift the rental market has seen in years, and the most misused tool of the fall:
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Rights & LegalOntario's 50% Arrears Rule: The New Price of Raising Issues at a Non-Payment Hearing
From September 21, 2026, the L1 non-payment hearing changes shape: a tenant who wants to raise section 82 issues — maintenance, illegal entry, harassment — inside the arrears case must first pay at least 50% of the arrears claimed, at least seven days before the hearing, with advance notice of the issues. The right to
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