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* your landlord plans to convert a rental unit to a non-residential use. | * your landlord plans to convert a rental unit to a non-residential use. | ||
If you would like to challenge a Four Month Eviction Notice, you have 30 days to apply for a dispute resolution hearing through the Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB). At the hearing, you will be given the opportunity to present evidence in support of your case, but the burden of proof will be on your landlord to convince the arbitrator to uphold the eviction notice. | If you would like to challenge a Four Month Eviction Notice, you have 30 days to apply for a dispute resolution hearing through the Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB). At the hearing, you will be given the opportunity to present evidence in support of your case, but the burden of proof will be on your landlord to convince the arbitrator to uphold the eviction notice. For example, if the landlord is claiming their mother will be moving into your unit, they should be able to provide evidence such as verbal testimony or a sworn statement from the mother. | ||
* Exception: the dispute period is 21 days for “landlord’s use” evictions where the rental unit was sold and the purchaser, or a [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/00_02078_01#section49 “close family member”] of the purchaser, intends in good faith to occupy the rental unit. | |||
For evictions related to personal occupancy or caretaker use, landlords are required to use a [https://logon7.gov.bc.ca/clp-cgi/capBceid/logon.cgi?flags=1001:1,8&TYPE=33554433&REALMOID=06-43f45bcb-a1a4-4e9b-bc1f-639c46ca6cd1&GUID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&METHOD=GET&SMAGENTNAME=$SM$yqhwjVFjDpU%2f5HRAoNIfv65TfmWyYzWfxZIfYiXBAlqsdl3%2bDnKhpmaoehgbosRKCj0Nk27gBqGn6%2fJXTkEOA6aLUP%2bhw8dO&TARGET=$SM$https%3a%2f%2ftenancydispute%2egov%2ebc%2eca%2fLandlordUse%2fLogin web portal] on the RTB website to generate an eviction notice. | For evictions related to personal occupancy or caretaker use, landlords are required to use a [https://logon7.gov.bc.ca/clp-cgi/capBceid/logon.cgi?flags=1001:1,8&TYPE=33554433&REALMOID=06-43f45bcb-a1a4-4e9b-bc1f-639c46ca6cd1&GUID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&METHOD=GET&SMAGENTNAME=$SM$yqhwjVFjDpU%2f5HRAoNIfv65TfmWyYzWfxZIfYiXBAlqsdl3%2bDnKhpmaoehgbosRKCj0Nk27gBqGn6%2fJXTkEOA6aLUP%2bhw8dO&TARGET=$SM$https%3a%2f%2ftenancydispute%2egov%2ebc%2eca%2fLandlordUse%2fLogin web portal] on the RTB website to generate an eviction notice. | ||
