Difference between revisions of "Repairs and Services When Renting"
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You can also use [http://www.tenants.bc.ca/main/?Templatedemandletters TRAC's template demand letters]. | You can also use [http://www.tenants.bc.ca/main/?Templatedemandletters TRAC's template demand letters]. | ||
===Dispute resolution for repairs and services=== | |||
When you take your landlord to a dispute resolution hearing for non-emergency repairs or services, the dispute resolution officer can: | |||
*order your landlord to do the repairs or restore the service, | |||
*order your landlord to lower your rent until the repairs are done or the service is restored, | |||
*give you permission to pay for the repairs yourself and to deduct the cost of the repair from your next month’s rent, | |||
*order you to pay your rent to the [[Residential Tenancy Branch]] instead of to your landlord, until the repairs are done. This is called a “re-direction of rent.” See Section 65 of the [[Residential Tenancy Act|RTA]]. | |||