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*Making sure the rental unit and the building are reasonably safe, healthy, and suitable to live in. | *Making sure the rental unit and the building are reasonably safe, healthy, and suitable to live in. | ||
*Providing a tenancy agreement, condition inspection reports, and giving receipts for rent or other fees paid in cash. | *Providing a tenancy agreement, condition inspection reports, and giving receipts for rent or other fees paid in cash. | ||
*Doing repairs and keeping the rental unit and building in good condition. If a landlord won’t make a necessary repair, a tenant should first talk to the landlord and then make a written request to the landlord to make the repair. If that doesn’t work, the tenant should then apply for dispute resolution (explained below). Tenants should not hold back rent or pay for the repairs, hoping that the landlord will pay them | *Doing repairs and keeping the rental unit and building in good condition. If a landlord won’t make a necessary repair, a tenant should first talk to the landlord and then make a written request to the landlord to make the repair. If that doesn’t work, the tenant should then apply for dispute resolution (explained below). Tenants should not hold back rent or pay for the repairs, hoping that the landlord will pay them back—unless the landlord has agreed in writing to do so. | ||
*Ensuring that the rental unit and building has proper heating, plumbing, electricity, locks, walls, floors, and ceilings (with no water leaks or holes). Maintaining anything included in the tenancy agreement, such as fridge, stove, laundry facilities, garages, and storage sheds. A landlord can take away a service (but not an essential service) if they give 30 days’ written notice to the tenant and reduce the rent by the value of the cancelled service. | *Ensuring that the rental unit and building has proper heating, plumbing, electricity, locks, walls, floors, and ceilings (with no water leaks or holes). Maintaining anything included in the tenancy agreement, such as fridge, stove, laundry facilities, garages, and storage sheds. A landlord can take away a service (but not an essential service) if they give 30 days’ written notice to the tenant and reduce the rent by the value of the cancelled service. | ||
*Paying the utility bills if utilities are included in the rent. | *Paying the utility bills if utilities are included in the rent. | ||
*Investigating any complaints about a tenant disturbing other tenants. | *Investigating any complaints about a tenant disturbing other tenants. | ||
*Not discriminating based on a person’s race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, gender, sexual orientation, age or lawful source of income (this is from section 10 of the BC ''Human Rights Code'' | *Not discriminating based on a person’s race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, gender, sexual orientation, age or lawful source of income (this is from section 10 of the BC ''Human Rights Code''—check script [[Human Rights & Discrimination Protection (Script 236)|236]] for details). | ||
==What should tenants do before renting a unit?== | ==What should tenants do before renting a unit?== | ||