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Not all tenancies are covered under the British Columbia Residential Tenancy Act and resolved through the Residential Tenancy Branch. Some tenancies that are not covered include: accommodations where a tenant shares a bathroom or kitchen with the owner; relationships between roommates; commercial tenancies; emergency shelters, transitional and supportive housing; co-operative housing; student housing; manufactured home parks under the Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Act; RVs, park models and tiny homes; vacation and travel accommodations; float homes or accommodations living aboard a boat; accommodations at hospitals and other healthcare or recovery housing; seniors housing, depending on the level of assistance and care provided; military housing; accommodations on First Nations land; and unauthorized or illegal suites. For these tenancies, landlord and tenants will have to look outside the Residential Tenancy Act and Residential Tenancy Branch to resolve their tenancy including through the courts of British Columbia. Book a Consultation today to determine whether your tenancy is covered and resolution options.

If you own a subsidized rental unit operated by a public housing body or on behalf of a public housing body the tenant is required to demonstrate that the tenant, or another proposed occupant, met eligibility criteria related to income, number of occupants, health or other similar criteria before entering into the tenancy agreement in relation to the rental unit. The landlord may end the tenancy agreement if the tenant or other occupant as applicable ceases to meet the eligibility criteria or qualify for the rental unit. The landlord must give two months notice to the tenant if he ceases to qualify for the rental unit. Book a Consultation if you would like to discuss whether the tenant ceases to qualify for the rental unit.

To effectively end the tenancy, the landlord must give the notice to the tenant in approved form under the Residential Tenancy Act, including that the notice must be: in writing, signed and dated by the landlord, include the address of the rental unit, and state the effective date of the notice. The landlord then needs to serve or deliver the notice to the tenant following the rules about how and when a notice can be given under the Residential Tenancy Act. There are several different methods a landlord can use to serve the notice including by handing it to the tenant, posting it to their door, mail, fax or email. The method used will determine when the tenant is considered to have received the notice and when the timelines will start to end the tenancy. It is important to ensure that your notice is made in the correct form and method so your tenancy ends as you wish. Book a Consultation to discuss the best procedure for giving notice to end your tenancy.

The application for dispute resolution must be in the applicable approved form, include full particulars of the dispute that is to be the subject of the dispute resolution proceedings, and be accompanied by the fee prescribed in the regulations. If you would like to initiate proceedings, Book a Consultation for next steps.