The province is aiming to improve efficiency and communication between landlords and tenants with new rules under its residential tendencies program. Changes include new timelines and clearer conditions for ending a tenancy, including three late rent payments, criminal behaviour, disturbing another tenant or the landlord, or extraordinary damage to a rental unit. Landlords will now be able to notify tenants three days after rent is due but unpaid that their lease can end if they don’t pay. Tenants will then have 10 days to pay up, move, or take their case to the residential tenancies program. The changes come into effect on April 30th.
Meanwhile, rent went up 2.4 per cent last month. The average rent in Nova Scotia is now $2,199. A new report says the average asking price nationally is $1,119. Rents across Canada increased 1.5 per cent from February. That’s the first increase since last September.
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