Difference between revisions of "Tenant’s Rights of Entry, Quiet Enjoyment, and Privacy (19:VII)"

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 #use of the common area for reasonable and lawful purposes, free from significant interference.
-Arbitrators may not be particularly generous in assessing noise complaints. While tenants have a right to quiet enjoyment, they also have a duty not to disturb other tenants. There is no reciprocal right.
+Landlords have a duty to protect their tenants’ rights to quiet enjoyment, and to not interfere with
+that right themselves. If a landlord interferes with a tenant’s right to quiet enjoyment by repeatedly
+entering a rental unit in a manner not in accordance with the RTA, the tenant may apply for an order
+to be permitted to change the locks in the rental unit, and to be permitted to not provide the landlord
+with a key: see ''RTA''
-However, a landlord may end a tenancy for Cause with one month’s notice if a tenant unreasonably disturbs other occupants or the landlord of the building. This is separate from the right of quiet enjoyment, and is a cause for landlord to evict (''RTA'' s 47 (d)(i)).
+While tenants have a right to quiet enjoyment, they also have a duty not to disturb other tenants. A
+landlord may end a tenancy for Cause with one month’s notice if a tenant unreasonably disturbs
+other occupants or the landlord of the building. This is separate from the right of quiet enjoyment
+and is a cause for a landlord to evict (RTA s 47 (d)(i)).
 == '''C. Duty to Provide Access''' ==

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