Legally Speaking Listing and Selling Tenanted Properties #553

Listing and selling tenanted properties can be complicated and add complexity to a transaction. From coordinating showings, to providing vacant possession, to provisions in contracts for standard adjustments at closing,

Legally Speaking Vacant Possession #495

Vacant possession means no one else is exercising possession rights in the property…

Legally Speaking Foreclosure and Residential Tenants #448

Licensees often wonder whether during foreclosure proceedings the borrower can rent the property to a residential tenant so the tenancy survives the foreclosure…

Legally Speaking Tenancies, Subject to Existing #101

Lower interest rates have helped fuel a sharp increase in demand for properties in Victoria and the Lower Mainland, and I trust, throughout the Province.

Legally Speaking Lease, Agreement To – Void for Uncertainty #85

Lance lay on the chesterfield, his headache just beginning to respond to his wife’s soothing cool hand on his forehead…

Legally Speaking Property Manager’s Liability for an Assault Upon a Tenant #79

A case involving an assault upon a tenant will be of interest not only to property managers and owners of rental properties, but perhaps also to Strata Corporations…

Legally Speaking Section 30 Real Estate Act #78

This is the section that prohibits payment of any commission or other compensation to any unlicensed person for “acting or attempting or assuming to act, as an agent or salesman…

Legally Speaking Salespersons’ Duty to Obtain Highest Price – Part 2 #75

You have listed for sale a house, to be described in the ad as a handyman’s special, which is located on a heavily-trafficked road in the middle of two blocks of mixed residential tenancy and low profit non-conforming…

Legally Speaking “And/or Nominee” and “And/or Assignee” #65

A request has been received for an update of the current law relating to the use of the above phrases in the preparation and enforcement of interim agreements…

Legally Speaking Mobile Home – Freedom of Choice to List With Any Agent #60

An arbitrator acting under the provisions of the Residential Tenancy Act has provided reasons for a decision involving the owner of a mobile home in a park, who had listed her home for sale with a real estate company…

Legally Speaking Residential Tenancy Act – Water Line Easement #35

A local Judge of the Supreme Court has decided in a Chambers application, that a landlord who gives notice to a tenant to vacate the landlord’s premises because the landlord intends to occupy them, is entitled to do…

Legally Speaking Lease for More Than Three Years – Illegal? #32

The Land Title Act requires a tenant with a long-term lease who wishes to register it, to follow the same procedure as does an owner who wants to divide his land into a number of parcels. Specifically, Section 73…

Legally Speaking Amendment to the Residential Tenancies Act and Notice of Termination #4

The amendment to the Residential Tenancies Act (R.T.A.), which allows a vendor, on behalf of a purchaser, to give a Notice of Termination to a tenant before title has been transferred to the purchaser, has cured a…