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Here are a few upcoming educational opportunities for landlords throughout Canada: British Columbia Apartment Owners and Managers Association Best Practices for Landlords 102: The Eviction Process and Dispute Resolution Strategies to protect yourself in the eviction...
A bill progressing through Ontario's legislative assembly to allow landlords there to collect a damage deposit from tenants has been defeated. MPP Savoline introduced the measure last fall in an attempt to bring Ontario in line with other provinces --British Columbia,...
A “secondary suite” is a self-contained dwelling located in, or adjacent to, a house, and which is separate from the principal dwelling. A secondary suite must have its own kitchen and bathroom, as well as a separate entrance. Secondary suites can offer family...
Q: Can you please explain how your perform your eviction searches? Do you search on the Social Security number, or the name? - TVS Landlord We search on any and all information that is provided to us - name, address, Social Security number, and date of birth....
A landlord who asked an appeals court to let him off the hook after a jury awarded his former tenants nearly $3 million over security deposit disputes has lost his argument that this amount is excessive. Originally, a jury awarded former tenants over $5.5 million...
The Fair Housing Act is the most well-known law dealing with discrimination in rental properties. The Act does not directly apply to all landlords, but these exemptions are quite narrow. For example, an landlord may be exempt if they own a building with four or...
Q: One of our tenant's Reverse Osmosis System was leaking and we pulled the system out and did not repair or replace it. Did we violate the tenant's rights when we did this?- TVS Landlord Under landlord-tenant rules, the landlord always has a duty to provide...
The Québec Landlords Association is questioning the wisdom of the RCLALQ for demanding the creation of a compulsory lease registry. The Association is concerned that such a registry would serve no purpose and would only create added costs for tax payers. According to...
Victims of an apartment fire in 2009 have filed lawsuits against a Calgary landlord over rental building defects that cost the lives of three tenants and severely injured a fourth. All combined, the lawsuits are requesting nearly $4.5 million dollars in damages. The...
Lack of Eviction, Criminal Records Costing Landlords After a drug-dealing tenant trashed his rental property, a Saint John landlord is calling for a registry of bad tenants. The man told CBC News that he was in the process of evicting the tenant over criminal...
Relying on previous decisions from Ontario, the Supreme Court in British Columbia has ordered that a Vancouver landlord must forfeit two of his rental properties, worth about $997,000, after police found marijuana grow operations there. This is the first trial of its...
California landlords have until July to install carbon monoxide detectors in single-family properties -- if they haven't done so already. The rule applies to any single-family home that has an attached garage, fireplace, or fueled appliances. At least 24 states...
Security deposit disputes are a sure way for a landlord to lose any profit they may have negotiated in a lease agreement. Yet, there are some issues that commonly give rise to these disputes. Avoiding those issues can help a landlord dodge the income loss that comes...
Last week a judge in New York told a tenant that she could break her lease and pay reduced rent because she was bothered by her neighbor's cigarette smoking. This ruling is important for other landlords to note, because it sets a precedent that likely will be followed...
A landlord in Philadelphia will have to pay $31,000 in fines for turning down an applicant with a child. The single mother inquired about a “for rent” sign she had seen posted at a property in Bristol, PA. She was given detailed information about the available...
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has released a study of the rental market. The best news to come from the report is a decreased vacancy rate in 35 major cities from October 2009 to 2010. The current reported vacancy rate is 2.6%. The CMHC attributes the...
Q: I just showed my rental property to a nice couple who have only been in this country for three months, having moved from a developing country. I am concerned about how to appropriately screen them as they will not have much, if any, credit history, nor will they...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to tighten regulations concerning housing discrimination to include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity. The proposed rules are subject to a period of public comment until March 25. HUD...
While there is no magic formula to make every tenancy profitable, landlords can increase the odds by adopting some of these habits of highly effective landlords: #1 Highly Effective Landlords Offer Non-Smoking Rentals Prohibiting cigarette smoking offers landlords a...
Last summer, a suburban Chicago landlord spruced up the landscaping for his tenants by adding $300 worth of plants. Within hours, the neighbors spied the tenant digging the plants back up, presumably to sell them and pocket the money. The tenant was charged with...
