Hi, Thank you so much for the webinar. I have a concern regarding my deposit. My contract ended, and I provided my forwarding address, but I have not yet received my deposit back. Yesterday, I received a notification that my landlord is taking me to dispute resolution, claiming I didn’t allow showings of the house and that I owe one month’s rent due to the loss of rental income. I did allow showings; the landlord completed one and canceled the other. Despite this, she kept both my security and pet deposits. Given these circumstances, can I claim double the amount of my deposit since I should have received it back? Thank you for your assistance.
Good day thank you for this helpful information. I have a question with regards to the mutual agreement to end tenancy. If someone signs this agreement and decides to leave early by providing a 30 day notice to vacate (tenant written) is this considered valid? For example if there is a mutual agreement signed in February 1 2022 to end Sep 1 2022 but then in July 1 2022 the tenant decides to provide a 30 day notice to vacate to the landlords to leave at the end of that month. As a landlord what are your options. Thank you very much in advance for the advice.
BC's residential tenancy law entitles landlords and tenants to mutually agree to end a tenancy early. If the tenant wishes to end the tenancy before the stated date in the mutual agreement to end the tenancy, the first place to look would be the terms of the agreement for the rights of the parties. If the agreement is silent on this point (the standard form doesn't mention it), it's likely that the tenancy would be treated as a fixed term tenancy. That is, the landlord and tenant have entered into a legal contract for a fixed amount of time. Generally, in a fixed term tenancy a tenant isn't entitled to give notice to end the tenancy before the end of the term. If they do, they typically have to pay the landlord an amount to compensate them for the months of rent they would have received had the tenant stayed until the end of the term. See the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre's guidance on this point: tenants.bc.ca/your-tenancy/breaking-a-lease/#consequences-for-breaking-a-lease For further help, consider reaching out to the Residential Tenancy Branch: www2.gov.bc.ca/landlordtenant
You can contact the Residential Tenancy Branch to learn the steps to enforce their decision. The Branch has the power to fine the landlord, for example. www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/residential-tenancies/solving-problems/tenancy-compliance-enforcement/outcomes
Thanks a lot for the information! I have a Question. Can a landlord give a 30-day notice to the tenant to move-out in BC without giving any reason on why the landlord is serving the notice?I live in vancouver and lately my property manager hasn’t been liking to fix maintenance issues in my apartment and today he told me I can move-out if I don’t like living in this apartment and the fact that owners of the apartment don’t like spending 100s of dollars to fix maintenance issues, my owners live overseas. I told him I like to live in this apartment, it’s just that the maintenance issues need to be resolved and he didn’t like it. So just on the basis of owners not liking to fix maintenance issues, can they serve me a move-out notice? My 1-year lease got over few months ago and now I live in the apartment on a month-to-month basis. Thanks ahead of time for your response!
Good question. A landlord can only evict you for a reason that's acceptable under the law. Here's some information from a tenant's rights organization, TRAC, on this point: tenants.bc.ca/your-tenancy/evictions/ A tenant can't be evicted for asking the landlord to undertake repairs and maintenance that the landlord is legally responsible for. Meanwhile, a tenant *can* be evicted if they seriously damage the rental unit or don't fix any damage that they caused. This link will take you to the law that says what kinds of repairs and maintenance tenants and landlords are responsible for: www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/00_02078_01#section32
Hi,
Thank you so much for the webinar. I have a concern regarding my deposit. My contract ended, and I provided my forwarding address, but I have not yet received my deposit back. Yesterday, I received a notification that my landlord is taking me to dispute resolution, claiming I didn’t allow showings of the house and that I owe one month’s rent due to the loss of rental income.
I did allow showings; the landlord completed one and canceled the other. Despite this, she kept both my security and pet deposits. Given these circumstances, can I claim double the amount of my deposit since I should have received it back?
Thank you for your assistance.
Good day thank you for this helpful information. I have a question with regards to the mutual agreement to end tenancy. If someone signs this agreement and decides to leave early by providing a 30 day notice to vacate (tenant written) is this considered valid? For example if there is a mutual agreement signed in February 1 2022 to end Sep 1 2022 but then in July 1 2022 the tenant decides to provide a 30 day notice to vacate to the landlords to leave at the end of that month. As a landlord what are your options.
Thank you very much in advance for the advice.
BC's residential tenancy law entitles landlords and tenants to mutually agree to end a tenancy early. If the tenant wishes to end the tenancy before the stated date in the mutual agreement to end the tenancy, the first place to look would be the terms of the agreement for the rights of the parties. If the agreement is silent on this point (the standard form doesn't mention it), it's likely that the tenancy would be treated as a fixed term tenancy. That is, the landlord and tenant have entered into a legal contract for a fixed amount of time.
Generally, in a fixed term tenancy a tenant isn't entitled to give notice to end the tenancy before the end of the term. If they do, they typically have to pay the landlord an amount to compensate them for the months of rent they would have received had the tenant stayed until the end of the term. See the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre's guidance on this point: tenants.bc.ca/your-tenancy/breaking-a-lease/#consequences-for-breaking-a-lease
For further help, consider reaching out to the Residential Tenancy Branch: www2.gov.bc.ca/landlordtenant
@@plsbc thank you for the information.
Hy, if landlord refuse tenant security deposit after RTB decision.. what’s the next step for tenant.
You can contact the Residential Tenancy Branch to learn the steps to enforce their decision. The Branch has the power to fine the landlord, for example. www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/residential-tenancies/solving-problems/tenancy-compliance-enforcement/outcomes
Thanks a lot for the information! I have a Question. Can a landlord give a 30-day notice to the tenant to move-out in BC without giving any reason on why the landlord is serving the notice?I live in vancouver and lately my property manager hasn’t been liking to fix maintenance issues in my apartment and today he told me I can move-out if I don’t like living in this apartment and the fact that owners of the apartment don’t like spending 100s of dollars to fix maintenance issues, my owners live overseas. I told him I like to live in this apartment, it’s just that the maintenance issues need to be resolved and he didn’t like it. So just on the basis of owners not liking to fix maintenance issues, can they serve me a move-out notice? My 1-year lease got over few months ago and now I live in the apartment on a month-to-month basis. Thanks ahead of time for your response!
Good question. A landlord can only evict you for a reason that's acceptable under the law. Here's some information from a tenant's rights organization, TRAC, on this point: tenants.bc.ca/your-tenancy/evictions/
A tenant can't be evicted for asking the landlord to undertake repairs and maintenance that the landlord is legally responsible for. Meanwhile, a tenant *can* be evicted if they seriously damage the rental unit or don't fix any damage that they caused. This link will take you to the law that says what kinds of repairs and maintenance tenants and landlords are responsible for: www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/00_02078_01#section32