Topic: Legal
No smoking in a unit: a reality that is slowly gaining momentum
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Me Martin A. Messier
No smoking in a unit: a reality that is slowly gaining momentum
Since and before the new Québec law forbidding smoking in public places, in effect for only one month now, a trend seems to be taking root ...
Attention: an energy supplier could collect your tenants’ rents
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Me Mélanie Chaperon
Attention: an energy supplier could collect your tenants’ rents
Should a landlord include the cost of electricity in the rent, or gas for residential tenants, and should this landlord have financial difficulty and defaults ...
The Appeal Court confirms that an incomplete repossession notice is not always invalid
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Me Robert Soucy
The Appeal Court confirms that an incomplete repossession notice is not always invalid
A landlord has sent a repossession notice to a tenant. She should have specified in her repossession notice for who the repossession notice was for, either for herself or for ...
The 3-month myth
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Me Mélanie Chaperon
The 3-month myth
According to a popular adage, if your tenant leaves your unit to buy a house, or if he/she just wants ...
A bad tenant relationship does not preclude repossessing a rental unit
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Me Robert Soucy
A bad tenant relationship does not preclude repossessing a rental unit
A landlord who wishes to repossess a rental unit must act in good faith. Once a tenant rejects the landlord’s request to repossess a unit, the landlord – within one month of the refusal - must submit a request to the Régie du logement to ...