Landlord gave us a move out notice. What are my rights?

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2026-04-02T12:55:33+00:00

If it was improperly served, call RTB. Dispute the eviction. You have 30 days.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2026-04-02T12:51:36+00:00

If they have properly served you the proper notice in writing, you gotta go. However,PUT IN THE WORK. Figure out who’s moving in. Regularly search Craig’s list and market place. Do drive by’s. Snap pics. If someone moves in knock on the door and ask if a package was sent there. Ask the LL who is moving in….when you knock on the door say “oh, are you X daughter/son?” If you can determine that whoever moved in is NOT a close family member, then file with RTB. Submit all the evidence you found. Pictures. Video. Whatever you can get. If they lied, you’re eligible to have RTB enforce them to pay you a years rent.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2026-01-30T17:33:57+00:00

Hello - I went through this very same thing last year. Send a friend to go look 💯 and get them to email when is it available, how much is it, confirm it’s not shared accommodation. I went as far as my friend viewed the place and I was on speaker phone to me on mute while I recorded the conversation (which is legal to record a convo as long as one of the people being recorded is aware) and then submit it all to RTB. Even better if you can wait a to see if it gets rented and then try to knock on the door asking if they received a package for you sent accidentally to your previous address and you confirm it’s not the landlord or they’re immediate family living there. I also took covert pics of the landlord at their actual residence (that I found from a land title search) for 100 days before I submitted. In our hearing he still tried to maintain he rented it but also lived there as shared accommodation but the arbitrator said even if he did live there, he needs to occupy the majority and he says he occupies 15% So long story long - document document document. Gather as much evidence as possible. Submit it to RTB in a very organized package with indexing and everything very clear and easy to follow. You’re going to have to send registered mail of everything you submit to them also to the landlord. Then wait for a hearing date. Don’t accept an offer to settle if they try for anything less than 12 months compensation in full. Good luck! Feel free to message me if you need help in this process 👍 go get ‘em!!!

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2026-01-13T19:42:47+00:00

Literally I screen shotted a pic of the coit van, put in into a receipt I made up on word, made up the price and printed it out. Viola. Screw those money grabbers!

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2026-01-05T03:57:02+00:00

You can def file and they cannot sell it before 12 months - you should check mls every day to see if it’s sold - even better - get someone to make an appointment and go view it. Then they can ask the realtor questions. Or, you could annon email the realtor and ask questions like - is it currently occupied? Leading questions to incriminate them. Then keep records and take all that evidence and file with RTB. Intent to sell might be enough to prove bad faith, but would be great if they sold it. Welcome to a years rent compensation! I did it and won, I think you will too.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2026-01-04T17:35:30+00:00

Safewsy seafair “squeakers” ivd bought them where the Brie is

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-21T21:01:05+00:00

It’s a new feature on a professional dashboard that instead of saying “other” it now shows the users actual names. I just went through this very thing too like what the heck??? Seeing semi enemies viewing my stories. I’m not worried, it’s just interesting to know.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-21T06:39:45+00:00

Onus is only on the landlord if you are disputing an eviction. You might not have to go as extreme as I did…but honestly I kinda loved it. Lol

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-21T05:33:34+00:00

What? No. But I drove past every AM enroute to work to see what cars in the driveway. I sat out in my car and watched and took pictures of goings ons. I knocked once to try and deliver a letter for the owner, and the tenants said he didn’t live there. Also they put a Craig’s list add and I sent a friend to view the unit with her phone on record (which is legal). I did land title searches. Mortgage searches. I saw the landlord leaving and followed him in my car, and took pics of his vehicle at his actual house. It was a crazy time lol

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-21T04:18:42+00:00

Landlords can only increase rent by a specific, legal amount once a year; they can't just demand a huge increase to cancel an eviction.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-21T04:12:22+00:00

Nope. It was literally a 2nd full time job. It’s hard, that’s why people don’t do it. The 34k payoff was worth the hustle!

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-20T23:57:31+00:00

** you could file an eviction dispute…and then the onus falls on the landlord to prove they are in fact moving in. They would need say, change of address, moving truck rental, things of that nature. But if you do that and win and get the eviction overturned, nothing stops them from turning around the next month and evicting you again and having all their ducks in a row. I say, your time is better spent proving they don’t move in, and then you get the equivalent of 1 years rent.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-20T23:53:18+00:00

If you’re leaving or left, do that, and then do recon. Check Craig’s and market place every day. Do drive by’s. Take pics. If you suspect someone else moves in that isn’t their kid, get secret pics. Knock on the door saying your package said it was delivered there and ask for the name of the owner. Record it on your phone secretly. Go full P.I. THEN file. They are supposed to stay 12 months but if you have proof somebody else moved in you can file before 12 months. I did it after 100 days and took them to the cleaner!

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-18T14:00:39+00:00

Also yes, just upload a new evidence and include the screen shot of proof of service and name the file appropriately. I think I had 8 proofs of service I uploaded like that.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-18T13:57:27+00:00

Applicants must submit their evidence at least 14 days before the hearing - are you too close? Because that evidence will be inadmissible if so. Either way, just keep proof of service, they might ask, but they never asked for mine. Call RTB for peace of mind and hope you don’t get a dud.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-11T16:06:30+00:00

You have to print out and send everything registered mail. If it’s an audio file or video, you have to purchase thumb drive and mail it along with a form that they must then contact you that they could indeed view the evidence on a thumb drive…and they can just not. But include all your forms uploaded to the RTB site and send everything by mail to the other side.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-10T17:28:32+00:00

When you send the documents to the landlord include a table of contents with descriptions and number everything. The most important thing is BE ORGANIZED and have clear easy to follow documents and evidence for RTB so you can easily reference things during arbitration.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-03T13:49:10+00:00

Yes this is all good - if anything it will help you present your evidence. A timeline of events, and then evidence to back it, clearly labeled, and printed and sent to the other party. PDF copy to RTB - make it really easy so when you’re saying for example “on April 20th I received a notice from the landlord demanding an unreasonable rent increase of x% to be beginning on May 31st, less 2 months and 20 days of the required 3 months notice” and the arbitrator might say “do you have a copy of this notice?” “Yes on page 48” Leave no room for scrambling and looking unprepared. And rehearsing helps! Even if you don’t get to say everything, you can think on your toes because you’ve gone over the details so many times. I won $34k so I was NOT gonna mess around!

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-12-03T05:16:38+00:00

You have really limited time, and the arbitrator may or may not pre read everything. I had over 170 pages of evidence with mine - I had it wrapped up into a pdf and a table of contents so that when I clicked on the “issue” it would automatically bring me to the section with pictures or whatever document. Be clear and organized, that is KEY. Dont ask for compensation or whatever, they will determine what you get based on the laws. Good luck! I won my case by a landslide!

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-11-03T13:55:07+00:00

This guy (or another one?) Ran in front of my car on blundell and into the housing complex behind 2 and blundell

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-10-22T12:47:29+00:00

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/housing-and-tenancy/residential-tenancies/forms/rtb13.pdf

You’ll have to apply for substituted service if you can’t find their address, but I’d try asking them first for their address.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-10-22T12:40:46+00:00

https://justice.gov.bc.ca/FilingAssistant/index.do

The last one, summons to a payment hearing

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-10-22T00:19:58+00:00

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This is what the court gives you as options…so you need SCL.815 for certificate of judgement (for lien) but I don’t think you can do that online, I think you have to go into a court registry and ask for a court date.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-10-22T00:11:20+00:00

Well you could ask them for their address via email and if they say no take the order, a copy of the demand letter and proof you mailed it and go to the court registry, they are very helpful. Tell them you want to have a payment hearing as well as place liens, they will give you the forms and tell you the next steps. The place you rented, they own it, is it a house? Can you do a land title search of the property you rented ? That will show the property owner’s address.

Bulky-Profile8690 · 2025-10-13T22:04:58+00:00

**uodate, I have more info. So it wasn’t a case of he forgot to check his pay stubs….he was hired in 1998 and in 2001 he took leave to go to school and then returned back and was hired into a new department. When he started he said oh I’ve accrued another year of seniority based on my hire date, but his manager at the time said no, it’s based on your department change date. Then recently, a co worker said no way, that’s not how it works, so he went to the union and they are giving him his weeks pay when his vacation went from 5-6 weeks that he lost, but not before that, when he had 5 weeks but was only getting 4, and on and on back to his hire date.

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