BC Tenant Rights Checklist

1. A clause that signs away your rights has no effect.Section 5 says landlords and tenants cannot contract out of the Act, even in a lease you signed.
2. No entry without proper notice or your permission.Written notice 24 hours to 30 days before, with a reasonable purpose, date and time between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. Other routes are your permission, an RTB order, an abandoned unit or an emergency. You may be present.
3. No guest fees and no rationing of guests.The Regulation bans guest fees. The RTB calls limits such as 14 overnight stays a year unreasonable.
4. No lock changes on you.Section 31: only if you agree and get new keys. Locking you out is illegal.
5. No seizing your belongings or removing you.Section 26 bars seizing your property except under a court order or for an abandoned unit. After a tenancy ends, the landlord needs a Supreme Court writ of possession to take a unit you still occupy (section 57).

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