VANCOUVER — Lawyer Rob Patterson says the phones at B.C.’s Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre never stop ringing — but he worries a decision allowing a landlord to impose a 27 per cent rent increase will fuel even more demand for its services.
Patterson, a legal advocate with the centre, said a regulation allowing landlords to apply to British Columbia’s Residential Tenancy Branch for such rent increases, above an annual limit set by the province, should be struck from the books.
In a May ruling that was posted on social media this week, an arbitrator with the board allowed landlord Kriss Canada Ltd. to raise rent beyond the 3.5
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