Dear REIN members,
I have some questions regards Tenant and Landlord Issues.
My friend has recently moved to Alberta to study in University Alberta.
The University`s housing program provided him with a room living at the landlord`s place. (He rent a room in the house and the landlord lives under the same house.) The contract agreement was for 2 months of period and expired. He continued to stay afterwards with landlord`s consent but without any additonal written agreement. Now that there is a dispute between them and the landlord wants him out immediately. (RTA states that it requires 3 month notice)
The problem is that there is appearantly a clause which states that RTA doesn`t not apply when the tenant rent a room in the living quarter of the landlord who resides in the premises. Is that true? Even if it is, isn`t there policy in place to protect the tenant?
Also during the tenancy, under the contract, the landlord should have provided 3 meals a day for my friend and failed to do so. Will he be entitled to compensation since the contract has been breached?
Furthurmore, he has also been ask to perform ADDITIONAL physical labour on the maintanance of the property which is beyond a normal tenant should provided. He helped out a few time out of good heart. When it gets too much, he refused to do them anymore. His landlord then gets mad and told him that he must do those work immdiately. These work are not stated in any contract.
He also received a phone call from a person who stated to be landlord`s friend. In this phone call, that person had made statement that made my friend felt threaten.
He would like to consider some legal action against his landlord, but he does not know he have the case against her.
Please advices, thank you
I have some questions regards Tenant and Landlord Issues.
My friend has recently moved to Alberta to study in University Alberta.
The University`s housing program provided him with a room living at the landlord`s place. (He rent a room in the house and the landlord lives under the same house.) The contract agreement was for 2 months of period and expired. He continued to stay afterwards with landlord`s consent but without any additonal written agreement. Now that there is a dispute between them and the landlord wants him out immediately. (RTA states that it requires 3 month notice)
The problem is that there is appearantly a clause which states that RTA doesn`t not apply when the tenant rent a room in the living quarter of the landlord who resides in the premises. Is that true? Even if it is, isn`t there policy in place to protect the tenant?
Also during the tenancy, under the contract, the landlord should have provided 3 meals a day for my friend and failed to do so. Will he be entitled to compensation since the contract has been breached?
Furthurmore, he has also been ask to perform ADDITIONAL physical labour on the maintanance of the property which is beyond a normal tenant should provided. He helped out a few time out of good heart. When it gets too much, he refused to do them anymore. His landlord then gets mad and told him that he must do those work immdiately. These work are not stated in any contract.
He also received a phone call from a person who stated to be landlord`s friend. In this phone call, that person had made statement that made my friend felt threaten.
He would like to consider some legal action against his landlord, but he does not know he have the case against her.
Please advices, thank you
