The Government has decided to introduce the RL-31 slips.

This represents an additional requirement for rental housing owners, and, beware, a penalty if the new work on your housing is done after the last day of February!

Take it from us: If you are not handy with the Internet, paper application forms are likely to arrive too late.

Section 1870 of the Civil Code of Québec allows the tenant, and this at any time during the lease, to assign his lease. The assignment of the lease allows the tenant to become free of all lease obligations by \"transferring\" his lease to another tenant. To do this he must send a written notice to the owner of his intention, with the name and address of the candidate, AND to obtain the owner’s consent to the transfer.

Housing starts in Quebec  were trending at 34,560  units in January, compared  to  35,678  units  in  December,  according  to  Canada  Mortgage  and  Housing  Corporation (CMHC). The trend is a six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rates
(SAAR) of housing starts.

The total value of building permits issued by Canadian municipalities rose 11.3% to $6.9 billion in December, following a 19.9% decline the previous month. Higher construction intentions for multi-family dwellings in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta explained the advance.

We spend a part of our lives to build a patrimony, so why not make sure to pass it on well and keep it in good condition?

A first investment, married life, a home, a joint investment, a baby, a wedding, a separation or a divorce, all these events change your situation and bring their own set of protections to contemplate. Everything happens very quickly with all the accidents of life that one has to face and sometimes we fail to take the necessary precautions and use the tools that are available to us to be well protected and informed, whether by lack of time or money. Yet our choices and our actions have legal implications that we tend to forget and we never remember it enough.

In case of refusal of the lease modifications you propose to a tenant, it is up to the landlord to, within one month of the refusal, request the Court of the Régie du logement to decide on the requested modification.

When it concerns the amount of the rent, the setting of the rent is based on a calculation under the Regulation Respecting the Criteria for the Fixing of the Rent. Regarding the modifications, however, no criteria exist for establishing what is allowed. Therefore, each case is a case to be assessed according to the circumstances by the judge. A recent judgment has come to remind us of this principle (1). In this situation, the landlord demanded modification of a land lease for hosting a mobile home, in order to remove from the rental, a part of additional land that had been leased to store a trailer.

According to jurisprudence, it is on the shoulders of the landlord that lays the burden of proving that the notices of renewal of a lease have been given to the tenant and, if applicable, are binding on the latter.

In the case of Bon Apparte v. Rivera i, the Quebec Court recognized that paragraph 3 of section 7 of the Regulations on the procedure before the Régie du logement is mainly applied to applications and requests made before the Régie

With an increase in values ​​that has a direct impact on the rent increase it is to be expected that rent increases will be higher this year.

The revision of the roles of property assessments often has this impact. On the other hand, this time around it comes at a time when vacancy rates are higher across Québec...