Owner Personal Occupancy: When is 4 months notice required?

Four months’ notice remains for landlord occupancy. Effective August 21, 2024, purchaser occupancy requires three months.

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Does ending a tenancy for personal occupancy always require four months’ notice? The distinction is who plans to move in. A four-month notice period remains for a landlord or their close family member. Effective August 21, 2024, amendments to the Residential Tenancy Regulation reduce the notice period for a purchaser’s occupancy to three months, previously four months. That distinction also changes the tenant’s time to dispute the notice. When a landlord issues it on behalf of a purchaser, the dispute period becomes 21 days, previously 30 days. For a landlord’s own occupancy or that of a close family member, tenants still have 30 days to dispute a Notice to End Tenancy. Who can move in? Under Section 49 of the Residential Tenancy Act, a landlord can end a tenancy when the landlord or a close family member wants to occupy the rental unit. The Act also allows this when the unit has been sold and the purchaser or their close family member wants to occupy it. But “close family member” has a specific meaning. The Residential Tenancy Act defines it as the landlord’s spouse, or the parents or children of the landlord or the landlord’s spouse. The obligation continues after the tenancy end