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Animals and housing – No, the owner is not protected by the law

Montreal, June 27, 2022 --- As July 1 approaches, various organizations, such as the SPA (i.e., la Société Protectrice des Animaux de Québec), are campaigning for the prohibition of the clause allowing rental building owners to prohibit animals in a dwelling. These organizations argue that the law already protects landlords since they can open a file at the Administrative Housing Tribunal (TAL) for damages.

How to solve various problems between tenants and rental housing owners? With a security deposit!

The Association des Propriétaires du Québec (APQ) has been calling for several years for the implementation of a security deposit.

As July 1 approaches quickly now, we see more and more rental dwellings left behind dirty or even unsanitary, by their former occupant.
Why then is a security deposit required?

Moving day on July 1: Occupants without rights, the APQ recommends that rental housing owners get involved in the moving process

With about 200,000 moves each year, the Association des Propriétaires du Québec (APQ) would like to give some advice to rental housing owners, because the waltz of the July 1 moves brings its share of unforeseen events, and some could be avoided.

  • Before D-Day: Rental housing owners - It  is recommended that you get involved in planning with your tenants
  • D-Day: Good communication is always to be favoured
  • The tenant has left things behind and the dwelling is...

Housing Bill 37: New restrictions on the right to property and insertion of a rental property owner in the management of the building

The Association des Propriétaires du Québec (APQ) can only oppose the new provisions that Bill 37, An Act to amend various legislative provisions mainly in relation to housing, will impose and which will also further reduce the rights of rental housing owners in Quebec.

Clause F: from 5 to 3 years

The framework of clause F to set the rent for the first five years of a new building is already well regulated. It is in no way necessary to shorten this period and thus further reduce the rights of housing owners at a time when Quebec must stimulate investment in real estate.

First of all, the Association des Propriétaires du Québec (APQ) would like to remind you that this clause is important in a rental market context where the price of rent is controlled and where, moreover, the maintenance of the price of rent is associated with the dwelling and not with the tenant.

Housing repossession: Tenants already have all the necessary protections!

The Association des Propriétaires du Québec (APQ) once again opposes Bill 993, An Act to amend the Civil Code in order to ensure greater protection for senior tenants against repossession of housing or evictions, filed today by Québec Solidaire.

The repossession of a housing is for a landlord one of the most restrictive processes in Quebec. Moreover, seniors have already been taken into account when Bill 492 came into force on June 10, 2016.

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