Even if you sign a lease agreement for more than 4%, you can get the rent reduced.

Brendan Burgess

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I heard the Director of the RTB on the radio this morning and she emphasised that if you sign a tenancy agreement and later find that the rent was more than 4% higher than the previous tenant's rent, you can get the RTB to reduce your rent to the correct level.

A tenant cannot contract out of the law.

And you have 6 years in which to make the claim.

This creates a huge amount of uncertainty for landlords. They refurbish a property and rent it at the market rent. Then the tenant claimed that it was not refurbished and goes to the RTB. The property might not meet the RTB's specification:

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