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 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 Occupiers Liability Act – Reduced Responsibility of Occupiers of Rural Lands for Injury or Death #367

A man who took his two sons cycling over a trail on private land was thrown from his bicycle and ended up a quadriplegic, when he hit a metre-deep ditch concealed by a mound of soil…

Legally Speaking Life Lease Housing and Seniors #351

Life lease is a term for an alternative residence and ownership arrangement for seniors. The term has been growing in BC over the past ten years because of its appeal to seniors…

Legally Speaking Unsafe premises; Injuries; Occupiers Liability Act #235

Before the enactment of the Occupiers Liability Act, at common law a landlord renting unfurnished premises owed no duty to his tenant or to any other person entering on those premises…

Legally Speaking Residential Tenancy Act #225

Landlords will have to be as quick off the starting blocks as Linford Christie, in the 100 meters at the Commonwealth games, if they are to retain the benefit of a security deposit for unpaid rent or damages owed…

Legally Speaking Adult Only Buildings and the Human Rights Act #210

How do amendments to the Human Rights Act (HRA) affect a developer pre-selling strata residential units in an intended adult only development?…

Legally Speaking Residential Tenancy Act Amendments #204

By the time this is published amendments to the Residential Tenancy Act will have received third reading, but will only become effective by order-in-council…

Legally Speaking Residential Tenancy – Renovations and Long Term Leases; Commercial Lease – Letter Agreement #190

The Residential Tenancy Branch of the Ministry of Labour and Consumer Services distributes a useful brochure outlining the rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants in British Columbia…

Legally Speaking Misrepresentation, Innocent; Mobile Home, Refusal of Landlord to Consent to Assignment #186

Normally, the listing agent for the owner of an existing home is unconcerned with set backs or other limitations which would affect the size and location of a home to be constructed upon the lot upon which the home…

Legally Speaking Landlord's Liability – Leased Premises #109

What do the Province of British Columbia, the Municipalities of Enderby and Chilliwack, Hudson’s Bay Company, Safeway, Grouse Nest, Royal Canadian Legion…

Legally Speaking Leases #93

Unless you are a property manager and actively involved in residential leases, the oddities of the Residential Tenancies Act, once known to you, may now be forgotten…

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 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 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…