The tenant leaves for a long period of time: How should the owner have access to the housing?

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This situation is quite common and causes many headaches to owners. When your tenant leaves for an extended period and the owner wishes to access the housing, in many cases, when the tenant has already left, it will be impossible to solve this problem before his return except in an emergency (like a fire, water damage, etc. ...). The delays at the Rental Board in cases of requests for access to housing make the process often of little use since the problem is solved more often than not when the tenant returns and, generally, well before the hearing.

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04 Dec 2015

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Me Jean-Olivier Reed, avocat

Me Jean-Olivier Reed graduated from Collège l'Assomption in legal technology in 1997 and then from the University of Montreal in law in 2001. Member of the bar since 2004, he was a lawyer and building manager from 2004 to 2006.

Lawyer with Messier Soucy lawyers since 2006. He works in real estate law and more particularly in rental law and co-ownership law.

He has written several articles in the newspaper "Le Propriétaire" on various topics dealing with rental law.
He lectures to members of the Quebec Landlords Association on current topics in rental law.