New rules are on the way for renters and landlords.
Starting April 30th, your landlord can send an eviction notice if you’re three days late on rent. You will then have ten days to pay, move out, or file an appeal through the Tenancies Program, according to a news release from Service Nova Scotia.
The province will also start publishing some decisions from residential tenancies hearings. Putting them online will give people an idea of what to expect if you’re in a similar situation.
The changes also outlines “new timelines and clearer conditions” to let landlords evict tenants, including being late to pay rent three times, criminal behaviour, disturbing another tenant or the landlord, as well as causing extraordinary damage to the apartment, the release said.
Landlords also must now provide more contact information, including their emails, if tenants also provide them.
For land-lease communities, like trailer parks, landlords and tenants will create a sort of anniversary date when the landlord may change or implement rules. They will also post rules in a place that’s accessible to everyone in the community, the release said.
The province also said they are improving the process for when a landlord in a land-lease community applies to raise rent above the rent cap, but the release does not outline exactly how that process works.
These changes were passed in the provincial legislature in the fall, but the province said they needed to make “operational and administrative updates” to the Residential Tenancies Program before the changes could take effect.
