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Your tenancy agreement might try to limit the number of times guests can stay overnight throughout the year. If that is the case, remember that no tenancy agreement in BC can avoid the law, or contain unconscionable terms – even if it has been signed by the tenant. The ''RTA'' says that you can have guests visit and stay overnight under reasonable circumstances, and your landlord cannot take that right away. For example, if your tenancy agreement says that you can have overnight visitors for only 14 days per year, there is a reasonable argument to be made at dispute resolution that an arbitrator should find that term to be unconscionable and unenforceable.
Your tenancy agreement might try to limit the number of times guests can stay overnight throughout the year. If that is the case, remember that no tenancy agreement in BC can avoid the law, or contain unconscionable terms – even if it has been signed by the tenant. The ''RTA'' says that you can have guests visit and stay overnight under reasonable circumstances, and your landlord cannot take that right away. For example, if your tenancy agreement says that you can have overnight visitors for only 14 days per year, there is a reasonable argument to be made at dispute resolution that an arbitrator should find that term to be unconscionable and unenforceable.


Exceptions: Supportive housing is exempt from the section of the Residential Tenancy Act that covers [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/00_02078_01#section30 guest policies]. For more information, including a definition of “supportive housing”, please review this [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/oic_cur/0017_2024 Order in Council].
'''Exceptions:''' Supportive housing is exempt from the section of the Residential Tenancy Act that covers [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/00_02078_01#section30 guest policies]. For more information, including a definition of “supportive housing”, please review this [https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/oic_cur/0017_2024 Order in Council].




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