Is Renting to Students a Good Idea? For many, the idea of renting out your home or apartment to students sounds alarm bells. It really shouldn’t. These tenants can often prove to be excellent – reliable, tidy, and, financially secured by their parents. In fact, having parents as guarantors on a lease, which is the usual case in student situations, is often far more sound than leases with other tenants. We ...

So your tenants have given you notice and you need to relist your property on liv.rent? Thankfully, your property details are saved in app so relisting and pushing out your property to liv.rent users again is as easy as 1, 2, 3! In the landlord dashboard, follow these steps...

Eviction is not a pretty word. It is a last resort but it is a reality when you have bad tenants. So as a landlord, you need to know how to evict a tenant. The most common reason for eviction is unpaid rent. Missed rent payments can have a huge impact on your cash flow, occasionally making eviction notices a necessary evil. Reasons for Eviction If it comes to this, you will ...

As a landlord in BC, at the beginning of a tenancy, you can require a tenant to pay: a security deposit equivalent to one-half of one month’s rent; and if they have a pet, a pet deposit equivalent to one-half of a month's rent (so a full month's rent in the case of pet-owning tenant) Tenants must pay the security deposit within 30 days of entering into the tenancy agreement or ...

How To End Or Extend A Tenancy Agreement As a landlord, many months may go by without any contact with your tenant and usually this is a good thing. However, once or twice a year, depending on the tenancy agreement or when the lease contract is nearing its end, you will need to reach out to your tenant to renegotiate the lease. In less common instances, you may want to end ...

What is a strata? In Vancouver, the most common form of strata housing is a condo. Typically these are apartments, townhouses, duplexes or even single family homes owned by a governing body known as the strata corporation - or strata for short.  However, a strata can also be land, just rarely in Vancouver. When you buy one of these properties, you become a co-owner of the self-governed, strata corporation and, as ...