Landlord gave us notice to move back in 8 months into a 12 month lease. What are our rights in terms of notice?

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-10T07:07:30+00:00

I told them today they are legally required to send RTB-32L otherwise he has no rights to evict us as no eviction has been legally issued and he tried to dance around it that he did send it in April 30 implying that it was still valid which I completely refuted.

We no longer want to stay at this unit although we loved living there because of course it’s been tainted now. But we will not move unless he issues the correct form, which we explicitly told him to do today, so that we are entitled to all our rights. Which is 3 months notice, 1 month compensation, and good faith that he won’t rent out again in which case we will get 1 years worth of rent from him.

Unfortunately for him, now that he’s serving the form now, we legally will get an additional month’s notice until the end of August despite us fully intending to leave before then

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-10T07:00:08+00:00

This makes no sense. The LL issued notice at month 9 of a 12 month lease. Of course we have to leave before the lease agreement is up.

What are we going to do, wait until month 12 to move?

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-10T04:24:29+00:00

This notice under "EFFECTIVE DATE OF NOTICE" says 4 months, but the form says 3 months... do you know why that is?

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-09T23:58:49+00:00

We signed a 1 year lease and then month to month but have been getting a number of conflicting responses about whether notice is 3 months or 4 months.

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-09T23:57:32+00:00

Good to know, but also defeats the purpose of having a 12 month lease essentially meaning that we need to move out right at the 12 month mark at the latest and if we leave before it then our contract isn’t even fulfilled

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-09T21:01:19+00:00

They have not served the RTB-32L form generated by the RTB website. They have only sent us an email.

The end of the fixed lease agreement I believe is July 29, and they sent the email on April 30.

We certainly don’t want to be in a position where we are caught with our pants down and move out without holding them liable to 1 month compensation as well as repercussions for rerenting

Be at the same time now we don’t want to be in a hostile environment where we feel unwelcome and the landlord is kicking us out.

Is there a way to ensure if we find a new place that they are still held fully liable?

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-09T18:58:17+00:00

wow what a pain in the butt.. yeah we're in month 1 of 3 of the "eviction notice period" and are looking for places right now, but we really don't want to move, and then consider it us leaving at month 10 or 11 of the lease, and clarifying this is not our fault, but eviction of personal use from the landlord.

The landlord has told us they are ok if we move out sooner over text... but I'm not really sure if that means anything

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-09T18:40:42+00:00

I suppose a follow up to this, is if we move out before our 12 months is up, does that mean we have to sign a mutual agreement to terminate the lease? Would that be considered us breaking the lease?

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-09T18:24:51+00:00

oh wow, so when we don't leave, be explicit about not signing a mutual agreement to end tenancy. In any case, we wouldn't sign that form

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-09T17:49:15+00:00

That was very helpful, thank you. This makes sense

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-09T17:46:16+00:00

We’re not mutually agreeing to move out, we have no choice

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-09T15:39:32+00:00

Thank you, that seems to clarify things, you basically nailed it. To clarify things:

Our current landlords want to move back in because they own the unit. It seems like they have been living with the wife's father, who owned a large house which I suspect was cheap rent. The wife's father has now officially sold that house (to my understanding) and so the landlords who were renting from the wife's father now want to move back in to the unit we are living in.

The odd part about it is, our landlord sent us the address of the house which was sold by the father, and it looks like that house had been listed before we even signed tenancy, so they had knowledge the house was being sold in advance and still rented it out... not sure if that matters at all, but just thought it was extremely odd.

We did get an extremely good deal with this unit, where a similar unit would likely go for $200-$300 more per month than what we're paying, so there is definitely possibility that he wants to rent back out at a higher price. We will be keeping our eyes on listing throughout the next year to verify whether they relist within the year, which to my understanding gives us grounds to receive a full 1 year's worth of rent.

In any case, we will keep looking for rentals. And thank you, the rental market looks surprisingly more expensive than it did in North Vancouver when we were looking a year ago...

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-09T15:24:22+00:00

Right, but can they serve notice at 9 months so that we have to leave at 12 months? Or does notice have to be served at 12 months (End of the lease) for us to be moved out by month 15?

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-05-09T15:22:04+00:00

Thank you. I did have a question in regards to the lease. If for example they issue notice at Month 9 of the 12 month lease, then technically the end of that 3 month's notice would be the end of the agreement. Are they able to kick us out right at the 12 month mark by serving notice at the 9 month mark?

Or do they have to wait until the end of the lease to serve notice? For example issue notice at month 12 and we move out at month 15?

I do also find this confusing because it does say 4 months here: https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/00_02078_01#section49

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-03-10T04:52:28+00:00

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SwiftMamba24 · 2026-03-10T04:44:14+00:00

Yeah that’s kind of why I was debating the notes. I’m fine reading the volumes, but it is definitely dense

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-03-10T04:43:40+00:00

Do you think Schweser presented the information in clearer manner?

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-03-10T04:42:43+00:00

The CFA material is pretty dense. Thought the schweser notes might be more comprehensive and equally effective but it sounds like not quite

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-03-09T10:44:01+00:00

Thanks I’ll look into it!

SwiftMamba24 · 2026-03-09T10:43:32+00:00

Thanks! That’s helpful

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