On September 29, 2023, BC tenant Saeed Mohammadi was awarded $57,700 in compensation costs thanks to a decision from a BC Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) arbitrator against his landlord Siavash ...

On September 29, 2023, BC tenant Saeed Mohammadi was awarded $57,700 in compensation costs thanks to a decision from a BC Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) arbitrator against his landlord Siavash ...

The Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) has fined the operator of Vernon’s Crown Villa Mobile Home Park $55,000 for years of \ ...

Legal loophole or bad-faith eviction? A recent BC Supreme Court ruling suggests some landlords may be skating dangerously close to “renoviction” territory — using family as the excuse. A landlord in ...

A landlord who was ordered to pay $82,000 because she didn’t occupy her Shaughnessy mansion after evicting her tenant will get another residential tenancy branch hearing. Xi Chen filed a petition in B ...

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Wrongful eviction warning A tenant says despite proving she was wrongfully evicted and being awarded money by the tenancy branch, her landlord hasn't paid.

B.C. announces $15M in funding for tenancy branch The province is expanding funding and staffing levels at the Residential Tenancy Branch to help speed up hearings for tenants and renters.

An Armstrong man evicted for not paying his rent is still owed his security deposit, plus interest, according to a Residential Tenancy Branch decision. The decision comes after a hearing where the ...

The British Columbia Court of Appeal ruled that an arbitrator erred by conflating the distinct tests for “extenuating circumstances” and “exceptional circumstances” in her analysis of whether the ...