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What are my rights as a renter under the FARE Act?

There is no FARE Act in Saskatchewan; that is another jurisdiction's law about who pays a leasing agent's fee. A Saskatoon renter's actual protections come from Saskatchewan's Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, which sets out notice periods, deposit rules and the grounds a landlord needs to end a tenancy.

Under that Act, a landlord cannot charge a tenant a fee just to view, apply for or sign a lease on a unit, so the specific problem the FARE Act was written to solve does not arise the same way in a Saskatoon tenancy.

The Act also sets out how a security deposit must be handled and returned, and most everyday landlord-tenant disagreements go to the Office of Residential Tenancies for resolution rather than to the courts.

If you are a landlord trying to understand your own obligations before selling a tenanted Saskatoon property at today's $444,700 benchmark price, the Residential Tenancies Act, not a law from another jurisdiction, is what actually governs the sale. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.

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