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It is your home and you have the right to have guests. Your landlord can’t ask you to pay extra rent because of your guests. However, your landlord might object if your guests stay too long and appear to be living with you. You should check your tenancy agreement to see if it has a clause about the number of occupants allowed under the agreement. Some agreements say that a guest who stays longer than two weeks is no longer a guest but an additional occupant. The landlord might then want to raise your rent because of the additional occupant or may say that you are breaching your tenancy agreement. Tenants in subsidized housing, for example, often have agreements that limit how many days a guest can stay overnight in a year and could risk losing their subsidy if it appears there is an additional person living with them. | It is your home and you have the right to have guests. Your landlord can’t ask you to pay extra rent because of your guests. However, your landlord might object if your guests stay too long and appear to be living with you. You should check your tenancy agreement to see if it has a clause about the number of occupants allowed under the agreement. Some agreements say that a guest who stays longer than two weeks is no longer a guest but an additional occupant. The landlord might then want to raise your rent because of the additional occupant or may say that you are breaching your tenancy agreement. Tenants in subsidized housing, for example, often have agreements that limit how many days a guest can stay overnight in a year and could risk losing their subsidy if it appears there is an additional person living with them. | ||
==Legislation and links== | |||
===Legislation=== | |||
*''[[Residential Tenancy Act]]'' | |||
*''[[Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Act]]'' | |||
===Links=== | |||
*RTB Policy Guideline 6-[http://www.rto.gov.bc.ca/documents/GL06.pdf Right to Quiety Enjoyment] | |||
*RTB Policy Guideline 7-[http://www.rto.gov.bc.ca/documents/GL07.pdf Locks and Access] | |||
===Resources=== | |||
*TRAC template demand letters- [http://www.tenants.bc.ca/main/?Templatedemandletters Loss of Quiet Enjoyment, Landlord's Right to Enter a Rental Unit Restriced] | |||
{{REVIEWED | reviewer = [[Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre]], 2012}} | {{REVIEWED | reviewer = [[Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre]], 2012}} | ||
