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Residential Tenancies - For Nova Scotia Landlords and Tenants

How to use this site

The Residential Tenancies program helps landlords and tenants understand their rights, and exercise those rights when necessary.

This site connects you with information you need. From this page, you can see and print legislation, forms, and information booklets. You can also find out how to reach us by phone, by mail, or in person with your questions or comments.

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If two multi-unit dwellings were the same in every way - including cost - except that one did not allow smoking anywhere, how likely would you be to choose the “no-smoking” building over the building where smoking was permitted?
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Things every landlord and tenant should know:
Various Topics:
Renting Guide Exploring Your Options For Resolving Disputes - PDF File Attending a Hearing - PDF File After the Hearing: What Now? - PDF File
       
SMARTenants Renting Guide - For Students Living Off Campus - PDF File Renting in a Mobile Home PArk - PDF File Evictions



Residential Tenancies Policies
Residential Tenancy Officers follow the Residential Tenancies Act and Regulations when they mediate or adjudicate disputes. Policies exist to help ensure the laws are followed consistently. Policies also address issues that may not be clearly covered by the law, but still require a consistent approach. Please see this General Caution before reading the policies.

Choose a policy from the drop down list box below:


Residential Tenancies Decisions
It can be useful to know how key parts of the Act are interpreted. The following pages contain a number of sample decisions that show how recent disputes have been adjudicated by Residential Tenancy Officers.

The decisions are organized by some of the most common issues Residential Tenancies deals with. Some decisions may appear in more than one category. All personal information has been removed from the decisions.

Please note that every case is different, and these samples are for information only. Minor variations in facts could result in very different outcomes than the ones found here.

Choose a decision category from the drop down list box below:

 
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