As a tenant, how do you know all the info your landlord collects is kept private?  What do they do with all that information?  What if there is a privacy breach and my info is compromised?  In today's episode I review the detailed email the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada provided with you.  There is an amazing amount of information for both tenants and landlords, including the Privacy Commissioner's ruling on security cameras in common areas AND "bad tenant lists".  Join me today for an amazing introduction into the privacy involved in rentals!

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📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED

⁠Provincial Laws that May Apply Instead of PIPEDA⁠

⁠Contact Info⁠

⁠Information Center⁠

⁠Privacy in the Landlord and Tenant Relationship⁠

⁠Number of Obligations⁠

⁠Meaningful Consent⁠ and the ⁠Guidelines for Obtaining Meaningful Consent⁠

⁠PIPEDA Fair Information Principles⁠

⁠PIPEDA Fair Information Principle 7 – Safeguards⁠

⁠File a Complaint⁠

⁠Property Management Company Agrees to Scrap "bad tenant list"⁠

⁠When Using Video Surveillance, Security Needs Must Respect Privacy Requirements⁠

⁠What you need to know about Mandatory Reporting of Breaches of Security Safeguards⁠

⁠Part 6 – Assessing Real Risk of Significant Harm⁠

⁠Preventing and Responding to a Privacy Breach⁠

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Today's episode is a bit different.  I am interviewing a landlord with one rental from British Columbia, who just had a nightmare tenant.  Very quickly things went sideways, resulting in warning letters, some unit damage, and non-payment of rent.  Things could have been much worse, but we learn about the mistakes made along the way, the decision to hire a property manager local to the rental, and the use of AI helping in writing the warning letters.  Join me in today's first case study on My Life As A Landlord!

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Two of the most stressful times in a landlord's life:  getting the right tenant IN and the wrong tenant OUT.  Today's episode is all about getting the right tenant in!  Packed with resources, today we review just a bit of the tenant screening process.  I reveal the potential tenant screening checklist as well as HOW to have the conversation with a former landlord or character reference. 

I have also thrown in a BONUS resource you will have to listen to find out! Today is about sharing the ART of Reference Checking!

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AI seems to be everywhere in our world:  chat bots on websites, transcription programs on zoom calls, and likely places that we don't even realize.  But where is AI in real estate?  OR, where COULD AI be in real estate?  Software developer and business owner Michael Vandi joins me for a sobering discussion about the use of AI in loan process documents, and where AI could be used in real estate moving forward.

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At some point in a landlord's life, you WILL need to renovate (sorry for the bad news, but it's true).  BUT, that cost to renovate can vary wildly, depending on where your rental is!  Today's "Other" Salisbury topic features Jones Act Research Fellow and Expert Colin Grabow from Washington DC's CATO Institute.  What is the Jones Act you wonder?  Colin not only explains what the Jones Act is, he talks about how folks over the years have found the "loop holes", AND how Canada was the reason for the Jones Act in the first place!  Join me and Colin in today's educational episode!

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One of the great privileges of having a podcast about real estate is supporting other podcasts about real estate.  In today's show, I am on the podcast called Agents Building Cashflow.  We talk about how real estate can be very intimidating, setting up systems, how to keep your team happy and how to be comfortable in discomfort. 

Check out Episode 172 of Agents Building Cashflow!

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What is normal wear and tear you ask?  How do you know what will be charged to you when you depart a unit?  What is considered willful damage and where is there a gray area?  In today's episode we go over the difficult-to-define "normal wear and tear", and review the US's Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s guidelines of life expectancy in rental items.  As a tenant, you need to educate yourself of what may be taken out of your security deposit; as a landlord, you need to budget for inevitable repairs, replacements, and renovations in your rentals. 

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Housing is housing, right?  Having a long-term tenant can't be THAT different than having a short-term guest, right?  ....wrong.  My guest today has both long- and short-term occupants, and we discuss the strategies, the costs, and the thought process behind housing different term length folks.  Founder of short-term rental software Renjoy, Jacob Mueller, joins me on today's show, to tackle which option works best for you?  

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Canadian insurance expert Scott Cameron attacks the hard questions about landlord and tenant rental coverages. What about when a rental comes with a pool, or a tenant wants to add a dog? Scott expands the top three tenant mistakes when it comes to insurance AND some sound advice to landlords of any length of experience. Learn with me about how Canadian risk exposure works from an expert!

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If you are doing any kind of improvement work at one of your properties, there is a chance you need a permit.  The larger the improvement, the bigger the chance you need a permit.  But what kind of permit?  And what happens when that permit gets stuck in review?  In today's episode I discuss the painful silence, waiting for a building permit to get approved, and no updates for a long time.  How do you know where it is stuck?  How do you get it unstuck and ultimately, how do you get your permit approved?  I share some of my tricks of the trade to getting permits to approval.

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